Certain Text Message Vanity Plates Banned
source: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/omg-xxx-list-for-plates/
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LOL!! The growth of text messaging abbreviations is adding to the list of prohibited letter combinations on Colorado license plates.
WTF, a cyberspace-saving abbreviation for, to put it more mildly, "What the heck is going on here," has been added to a lengthy list of 261 three-letter combinations that the state considers verboten on the standard-issue six-character plate.
OMG! What's next?
It used to be that motor vehicle officials had to worry only about the sexually offensive, racially bigoted, scatologically suggestive or biologically functioning references. Now they need a 14-year-old iPhone 3G-carrying technogeek member of the committee to pass on some of the tri-letter possibilities.
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Charter members of the list are obvious ones you've never seen on a green-and- white tag: KKK, ASS and any derivative of the king of banished words, the one that begins with F.
Others have been added to the list even though they might have been issued in the past, such as GAG.
GAY and FAG are on the prohibited list but FGT isn't. Nor can you drive like HEL or have a DUI, although you could be stopped for D.U.I. You can't be a COP or with the CIA, FBI or CSP, but your plate can say DPD.
You'll find no HOE, HOR or HQR cruising the streets.
Doesn't it stink that you can't have a plate that says PEW? No POO or PEE either. You can't be DUM although you can drive like you are. And is it unfair that the crazy woman driver ahead of you can't get a plate with PMS on it, or the road-rager guy can't have SOB?
And you won't get a UFO plate no matter how bizarre your ride looks.
Even if you're Just Married, you can't get WED. And HUY may seem innocuous unless you speak Russian. But take it from us, you wouldn't drive around Moscow with it.
Your plate can't be a JEW or a JAP or a HUN or a WOP. GOD can't be your co-pilot. Nor can DOG or an ark of living creatures including CAT, SOW, PUP, APE, PIG, HOG, HEN, RAT and BUG, although you might wish the state could ban the ones smeared across your windshield.
LOL!! The growth of text messaging abbreviations is adding to the list of prohibited letter combinations on Colorado license plates.
WTF, a cyberspace-saving abbreviation for, to put it more mildly, "What the heck is going on here," has been added to a lengthy list of 261 three-letter combinations that the state considers verboten on the standard-issue six-character plate.
OMG! What's next?
It used to be that motor vehicle officials had to worry only about the sexually offensive, racially bigoted, scatologically suggestive or biologically functioning references. Now they need a 14-year-old iPhone 3G-carrying technogeek member of the committee to pass on some of the tri-letter possibilities.
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Charter members of the list are obvious ones you've never seen on a green-and- white tag: KKK, ASS and any derivative of the king of banished words, the one that begins with F.
Others have been added to the list even though they might have been issued in the past, such as GAG.
GAY and FAG are on the prohibited list but FGT isn't. Nor can you drive like HEL or have a DUI, although you could be stopped for D.U.I. You can't be a COP or with the CIA, FBI or CSP, but your plate can say DPD.
You'll find no HOE, HOR or HQR cruising the streets.
Doesn't it stink that you can't have a plate that says PEW? No POO or PEE either. You can't be DUM although you can drive like you are. And is it unfair that the crazy woman driver ahead of you can't get a plate with PMS on it, or the road-rager guy can't have SOB?
And you won't get a UFO plate no matter how bizarre your ride looks.
Even if you're Just Married, you can't get WED. And HUY may seem innocuous unless you speak Russian. But take it from us, you wouldn't drive around Moscow with it.
Your plate can't be a JEW or a JAP or a HUN or a WOP. GOD can't be your co-pilot. Nor can DOG or an ark of living creatures including CAT, SOW, PUP, APE, PIG, HOG, HEN, RAT and BUG, although you might wish the state could ban the ones smeared across your windshield.
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bigballon
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that is so funny what the plate says
- 3 years ago
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bigballon
