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WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates
beadfulthings writes "In light of recent discussions about the Internet habits of the older generation, it's comforting to know that in North Carolina, up to 10,000 license plates containing the potentially offensive 3-letter WTF combination will be replaced by the Motor Vehicles division at no cost — if the owner of the vehicle finds the plates offensive. As reported on Winston-Salem's television station WXII, the MVD was alerted to the problem by an irate 60-year-old technology teacher who'd been clued in by her grandchildren. The article includes a helpful slide show of twenty Internet acronyms every parent should know. The article doesn't include any information on how you could actually apply for a WTF license plate."
I'd like to buy one. Will they ship out of state?
Modding Trolls +1 inciteful since 1999
In my homosexual opinion, stupid stuff like this makes me LMAO.
Here are a lot of non-offensive explanations:
1. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2. Wednesday Thursday Friday
3. Wow Text File
4. Write To File
5. Welcome To France (lolcats)
6. We The French
7. Work Time Fun
More unique stuff here
I just want this one: WTF-101
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They do this because they know it's the only way they can communicate with the rest of the world.
What else are you supposed to do when stringing more than 3 letters together is a challenge?
[b.belong('us') for b in bases if b.owner() == 'you']
They had to recall millions of "We heart goat sex" plates.
Serously - who gets offended by random letter combinations? Now KMA, STFU and GBTW.
He's a technology teacher and he doesn't know what "WTF" stands for. Just what technology is he actually teaching about?
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
The state is issuing your choice among these substitutes: TIT TNA SOB POS FAG FUK SUK PEE ASS POO DIE
George Carlin would have been proud!
The article includes a helpful slide show of twenty Internet acronyms every parent should know.
This is the funniest list since Microsoft did one a few years back (I can't' find the link any more)
From this helpful list...
POS-- Parents over shoulder? Not piece of shit or point of sale- and not to be confused with the other MENACING parents-are-here including Parents-in-room (PIR), Parent alert (p911), Parents-are-watching (PAW), Parents-are-listening (PAL), "keeping-parents-clueless" (KPC), and my favorite NIFOC (nude in front of computer), which of course you'd want to keep abbreviated when other people are in the room so they won''t find out (?HUH?) Then there's the ultimately chilling NALOP (Not a lot of people know this)...
WTF? After what I'm guessing is probably an equal amount of research, I've discovered up some for their next edition of the list. Frightening to think our children use these.
ISDOOMPH (I'm Selling Drugs Out Of My Parents House), IWKMYITST (I Will Kill My Parents In Their Sleep Tonight), UHWMD? (Do You Have Weapons of Mass Destruction?), ITGPAHAAWBC (I Think Getting Pregnant And Having An Abortion Would Be Cool), IHGDY? (I Hate God Do You?), LPG (Lets Poison Grandma), ROFML (Rolling On Floor Mainlining), RBIF (Robbing Banks is Fun), LSGTAWS (Lets Sniff Glue Tonight And Worship Satan), MPWNFTAO (My Parents Will NEVER Figure This Acronym Out), and GG (Golly Gee).
No way are they getting my WTFBUSH plate back.
I bet any amount of money they made the majority of those up to look tech savvy.
I imagin if I started typing PAL all the time while chatting, my friends would just think I'm trying to shout the word, not use it as an acronym.
In New York there are plates that start with BBW it doesn't mean driving the car is a Fat Chick.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I have often taken exit 69 to Big Beaver road. Let's hope no SOB complains about that one!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
All license plates should be easy to remember. WTF is a good choice. I would retain it if my car got one with that prefix. I see no reason to use all possible combinations just because they are available. I wonder if "ISO SWF" is still available. Finding both the license plate and SWF will be cool, but I will settle for SWF.
Depending on the font used, not even using numbers may be safe. 8008135.
It starts with the letters 6AM. The last thing I wanted was to be reminded that there is such a thing as "six AM". I think I should be allowed to have mine replaced free of charge also.
A few years back, Smoking Gun obtained a ton of DMV complaint letters about vanity plates and put it on their site. Link
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Will they issue a similar recall for anyone with a "666" licence plate?
And if you are Asian and you don't like the number 250, or numbers containing the digits 4, 5, 6, or 7, how about a recall then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Unlucky_numbers
....decided to buy a personalised number-plate for his daughter Louise-Anne while he was in prison. She got the numberplate LAG-1, which didn't quite make him the brightest light-bulb in the building.
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
WTF? Still can't turn off
this section in preferen
ces. (And the greasemo
nkey scripts I was reco
mmended don't work so
well...)
Someone over at Slashd
ot really needs to take a
serious look at why the
comment field is so stup
id narrow. Why, it's almo
st almost unusably narr
ow. I mean, how difficult
would it be to set the fiel
d to a usable width? Ju
st multiply the width by a
bout a factor of five or si
x. Or better yet, use a
percentage, like say nin
ety percent or somethin
g in that neighbourhood.
Sheesh!
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/athome/security/children/leetspeak.mspx
OH SHIT THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG
PARENT OVER SHOULDER!!!
PARENT OVER SHOULDER!!!
(alksjf;klajsldjf alskdjflasjfla sdklfajsldkfj alskdfjklasjdflakdjflkajdflkajdflkadjfalksdjf)
Scorta futuere amo!
My license place has DRM on it, which offends me almost as much as the real stuff. Thankfully it's sitting in my garage where my house number is 404, so no one sees it anyway.
Hey, here in Virginia the state charges for a "WTF" license plate. Now that's good governance.
Everyone knows a slideshow is the only way to express ideas you know nothing about.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
What does North Carolina have against Wanda the Fish?
Cosmo Kramer. You *are* the Assman.
My favorite is still the guy that managed to get "GOT MILF" on his license plate. Even better is the picture of the florida plate "A55 RGY", which doesn't seem bad until you see it - the florida orange in the middle of the plate looks like a big O.
Many of the plates belong to proud members of the National Wild Turkey Federation. These plates are offered by several states, including North Carolina where they are perfectly legal.
What about the time I went with my gay friend to the gay bar to show I was cool and not prejudiced against homos and made the mistake of wearing my AC/DC t-shirt. Acronym malfunction doesn't even begin to describe it.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
So, any license plate that has one or more of these letters is suspect; S, P, F, C, M, or T. (C appears twice in the list, so any license plate that has two Cs in it is especially bad.)
Bureaucrats who worry about this kind of shit are as worthless as tits on a boar. Those cocksucking motherfuckers really piss me off. What a bunch of cunts. Fuck them.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
That's totally 1337.
Hey, sometimes random number plates can be pretty unambiguous
http://www.manbottle.com/picture_library/ass_orgy_license_plate
Yup...
No, that looks bad anyway. Somebody in Florida should try for S1N RGY, which looks like synergy...until you put that O in the middle.
Caucazoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Wow, This Feels Weird. To Fund Withdrawal The Feds Will Tax Far Worse. This Furore Will Take Forever!
My license place has DRM on it
Before I moved house I would often see a BMW driving around the area in which I lived with the registration plate "IT DRM".
I never did find out if he had anything to do with the digital shackles or if it was just some freakish coincidence. Though I did find myself shaking my head tut-tutting at him as he drove past to see if I could get a reaction. (Experiment yielded no reaction.)
"Three eyes are better than one" -- Lieutenant Columbo
The Ohio DMV gave me "FA66ET".
While it wasn't spelled correctly, I still got looks from quite a few passersby and fellow motorists.
After I couldn't take it any more, I went down and reported the plates stolen.
Does this mean I can finally swap my tag (FAG 969)?
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