David Phillips can keep 'POOFTER' license plates

New Acronyms

  With the new communication, TEXTING, I wonder when the licence plate people will begin to use the CATMS to figure out what other plates might be offensive.

  Some in the acronym world have this;

AAAAA=American Association Against Acronym Abuse

  Go look at some of the licence plates on cars, see if there is a hidden message.

  Porno Pete's tag could be:FOL LB?W/C,  if it fits.


If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 23:23:26 PM CST

Offensive

At the risk of sounding like a prig, I think the State of Virginia was correct when it initially pulled his ability to use the license plate, although it was probably done because of the publicity than for the correct reasons.   Plainly put, his license plate is offensive in that it uses a disparaging term for gay people.  Never mind that he, himself, is gay.  Imagine the reaction is some jerk sprayed that on his car, or made his plate look like that.  This is the major flaw in logic for people who think that using epithets is the same as disarming them.  One also removes one's argument against their use in hatred.

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by: ptboat67 @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 14:36:36 PM CST

Also...

With a vanity plate like that one, and the way his story reads, I wonder how valid his story really is.  It seems a little to Penthouse Forum for me.

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by: ptboat67 @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 14:38:06 PM CST

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Oh no...

I'm sure it's legit. You don't get the moniker "Bear About Town" without doing much of it. I think this is the second time I've seen him with a shirt on. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten a "WDERCVR" tag--that's much more accurate. Aww, I kid! He's a sweet guy.

This one's not near as bad as another VA plate that read "WHIZPIG". Water sports queen I used to know quite some time ago--she drove a gold colored PT Cruiser. Ewww! Mine's a VA bowling tag with "BTTRNU". Harmless, however messed up. Wanted "BETRNU", but the stupid online store wouldn't allow it.

Curses! My million dollar ideas foiled again: "God Bless Your Brand!" http://www.christvertising.com/

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by: TJ McFisty @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 14:55:00 PM CST

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GAYVET

That's the plate I just got, in the wake of them demanding his plates back.  They sent it this time.  2 years ago I applied for it and was denied due to the profanity rules.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: Daimeon @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 17:34:11 PM CST

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Very cool!

Congratulations.  I bet you get lots of honks and waves with that one.

I have to say, though, I wouldn't want to be the one deciding which vanity plates get the okay, and which don't.  Can you imagine some of the nasty requests they must get?  And the fear that something really objectionable will slip through?   Where do you draw the line?

I might smile at a DYKE plate, but does that mean FLTHY DYKE would be just fine?  And let's not even get into all the ethnic stuff.

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by: Pollyanna @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 19:07:30 PM CST

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Well I got a pat on the back

From a co-worker that I though t was prety phobic.  Basically he said, "Damn' you got balls.  I gotta give you props for that"  Then gave me the advice to stay in Northern VA and not to venture too much further south.  To which I replied "they can get over it."

 Here's my plate.

 

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: Daimeon @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 08:35:12 AM CST

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Context is everything.

No, the state would not have been correct in pulling the license plate, precisely <i>because</i> he was gay.

When I was living in Connecticut several decades ago, I saw a CT plate with the legend "RUGAY2"  Apparently, no problem there and then, even when the "then" was the 1970s.

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by: raj @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 04:37:23 AM CST

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Aha! I get it.

That would be kind of like corrective eyewear requirements on your drivers license, right?

One could have vanity plates with words or messages widely presumed to be derogatory, only as long as the driver of the vehicle with said plates belonged to the group being disparaged (and, by golly, could prove it!).  Hence, I could have BULL DYKE plates, but would be unable to lend my vehicle to anyone with a penis, for instance.  No wait, maybe there'd be an exception for various trans situations?  Gosh, it gets so confusing.

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Hey, honey, look.  Did you know our new neighbor was a bull dyke?

Henry, please don't use that kind of language around the children.  That's not the way we want them to think about other people.

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by: Pollyanna @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 07:03:37 AM CST

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Jeesus

What part of GAYVET was deemed to be obscene?  Must be a whole different definition of obscene that they're working with.  I can't even see how that's vaguely offensive.

ALLY (ALLIE) (transitive) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

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by: Vicster @ Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 18:28:09 PM CST

That's what I wanted to know

2 years ago, but I got it now.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: Daimeon @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 08:36:13 AM CST

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