If questioned by the clerk, I would’ve said “Oh, it’s just my favorite song…” and start singing:
Me ‘N’ Gele Down By The Schoolyard . . . 
right there in the DMV.
Too many characters. You might have have to try TORKMDA.
Who was Attila’s chief of staff? I’m old enough and enough of a history/spy novel nerd to know who Mengele was - but it’s going on 80 years. Not that Mengele was a nobody, but at some point the only Nazi anyone is going to remember off the top of their head is Hitler.
Government systems, especially complex and arcane ones like the DMV, are probably not off the shelf and were built at a time of rather lax oversight. I’ve encountered many systems that don’t handle simple situations that every standard commercial piece of software has handled for years.
And the guy didn’t try to game the system, he got the “NULL” plate by accident. He was supposed to fill out his form with three possible plate choices in case his first or second choice was already in use. He only wanted one of two possible choices, and wrote in NULL for the third option because he didn’t have a third choice. He decided to keep it and then found out the hard way that it wasn’t the greatest choice.
When I stop posting, go ahead and figure that I pissed off the wrong Magahat. I know I should stop, but I just can’t help myself!
I read an anecdote recently, possibly here on the SDMB, about someone whose coworker would open up an excel spreadsheet, type a value into one field, a second value into another field, and then take out a handheld calculator, use it to add the two numbers, and enter that value into the third field.
So, while probably an urban legend, you can never rule out the possibility that someone’s using that database in a dramatically non-standard manner.
And even then, a HITLER license plate could be in tribute to Eddie Hitler from Bottom.
Reductio ad absurdum. When all else fails.
My bold.
My 33-year old step-grandson believes that modern history began on 9/11. He believes that nothing of ANY importance happened in the world prior to that date.
However, 80 years is still within living memory.
My bold.
We have reached that point.
You are correct. Provided it’s SQL DB, which I assume it would be.
Unless the coding is really screwed up I suppose. NULL in this case is a string. and would/should be queried as ‘NULL’. NULL is a totally different animal.
I always liked the license plate on a VW ‘Bug’ that said ‘FEATURE’. - Not a bug it’s a feature.
Weird. Your reply shows that the MathJax plug-in doesn’t seem to kick in for quoted replies. The red shows up fine in my post, but the dollar signs seem to have been stripped on the quote you responded to. I’ll go see if that’s a known issue in ATMB.
At least in some parts of the country, a MENGELE license plate is likely to draw attention in the form of eggs, a screwdriver to a door panel or worse.
Might’ve been better to leave this dingbat to his/her manifest destiny.
I knew of a Dr. Slaughter once. Perhaps this guy is his cousin or something.
Clearly, DMV are not thrash metal fans: (though, to be fair, Mengele is not explicitly named)
AUTODFE would also work.
“Auto-Da-Fe” also sounds like the place where you might buy a used car.
“Come on down to Auto-Da-Fe, for Da-Fun and Da-Financing!”
Bleda
I learned this a day or so ago, because he was played by Leo Gordon, mentioned in This thread
Ghod I wish I could do that, I would be internationally greeting every damn muttfucker in this state, but I don’t, too many of those american taliban members will follow and will stalk and will commit violence against me, my family and my property.
Yeah, I’m probably going to get myself killed someday, but I’ll go knowing I’ve taken a few of them out first!
Maybe we should consult @OttoDaFe about this.
This is a very specific subset of another thread, but it needs to be titled,
“Why Are All Pickup Truck Drivers Assholes?”
It is a burning question …