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DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak
First time accepted submitter 3seas writes in about DMVs across the country learning textspeak in order to keep vulgar acronyms off the road. "You can have txtspeak on your plate in Arizona, but only if you keep it clean. 'ROFLMAO' is a no-go. Arkansas, however, seems to be a little slower on the uptake. 'ROFLMAO' doesn't appear on the state's prohibited list. That doesn't necessarily mean the plate would pass DMV scrutiny should someone request it."
Ended up letting it go with the car when I sold it. Saw that it was available again, but the DMV won't allow you to order it anymore.
I guess, this matters? :/
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Nobody will ever top Florida "A55 RGY" with the big orange in the middle serving as the letter "O."
A55 O RGY
Rolling On the Floor, Laughing Madly And Out loud. Wow, that sounds totally offensive! Idiots.
Shouldn't that be FOAD?
The Washington State DMV rules say that you can use any combination of letters, digits or hyphen, up to a maximum of 7 characters. Single-character license plates are acceptable, but they've all been taken apart from one:
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I think a single hyphen would be great. When police officers write a citation for speeding, in the box for the motorist's license plate, they'd have to just write a dash. It'd be as if you didn't have one. Like this: http://xkcd.com/1105/
Someone's plate in PA has the summary's example verbatim. Or maybe had, since it's been 4 years since I saw it.
http://www.nytmare.org/misc/roflmao-plate.jpg
This indian woman I used to work with would send me emails like What is ur schedule for this afternoon?
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... my mistress got "RTFM." The dude at DMV wanted to know what it stood for, she told him it was a Unix command.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
I see you were under the delusion that "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters" were referencing the intersection as opposed to the union.
Seems tame to me. Clearly the person was commemorating their parents move.
"Went To Florida, Operation: Move Granny."
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6UL DV8
IB6 UB9
thx 4 mkn me uz wkpdia
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The war on profanity seems in line with any fundamentalist theocracy though...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Here in VA, vanity plate central:
MOE RON
BIGAZZVAN
FAT GAL (Tbird)
&BEYOND (on the back of an Infiniti)
Jack Benny had that plate over 70 years ago. He said it meant "Know Me In Truth" when in fact it was Yiddish for "kiss my ass".
So, this kind of thing is nothing new . . .
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp
NO PLATE
NONE
NOTAG
MISSING
XXXXXXX
All are both funny and bad ideas.
I'd lke to get one that reads UFIA.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
When I got mine in NZ some years back, the guy at the kiosk (they sold personalised plates at shopping malls) said it would never be allowed. I always wondered whether FAR CUE would get through.
It's good luck to be superstitious
As a kid I had vanity plates - my vax user name, it fit perfectly in six characters. And in Vaxen land it was your first name and the first and last letters of your last name that made up you username.
But friends of mine had the plates I-812 and OU-812. They had them for a few years until the DMV realized what it was referring to (I Ate One Two and Oh You Ate One Too) and yanked the plates.
And I once had the email address fuckewe@cox.net - until Cox figured out what it said and removed it.
But what about my Japanese ancestry friend with a last name of Fuqua? He's had snickers and giggles about his last name since 2nd grade! But his family's been here since the early 1820's in California, so why should the DMV give them a hard time for wanting their last name on their license plate?? They shouldn't, but they did and they do if you want a vanity plate that offends the minds and mindless-sensibilities of these Puritanical U-S-of-A.
Back in the day I used to hang out with a guy with the call KA1RCI. Well, on RI plates the 1 and the I are kind of hard to distinguish. So I get in his truck one day and the glove compartment is STUFFED with parking tickets. I was like, how come they haven't booted you yet?
Then I looked at the tickets not only were they written KAIRCI but they also had the plate type as 01, whereas amateur radio call sign plates are type 18. Type matters.
And then there's my sk friend Kevin who had the call sign KA1FTW! The license is still active, maybe when it lapses I'll get it as a club call sign to replace the shitty one we have now which is KB1YSX.
Someone makes a free speech issue out of it when their application for an "FU OBAMA" plates gets rejected.
I don't see how it's their business to regulate anything you want on your plate. If I can put "FUCK" on my car (and I can, free speech and all), then there's no reason I can't put it on my plate. Government agencies need to get out of the censorship business, in all circumstances.
2009 Story out of Denver, Colorodo:
2012 Story out of Virgina:
So I guess they'll figure out that YAAFA means "you're a fucking asshole". Perhaps they should not freak out over such idiotic nonsense.
Very clever ;)
You own the car. You don't own the license plate.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
In California, I saw these license plates
FOK YO
PUDENDA
Each of these is rude and likely to provoke anger and violence. It's not good public policy to encourage people to misbehave.
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Seen on a minivan in Fairfax VA. Obviously a fan of the local soccer franchise, no?
To reduce crime, make fewer things against the law.
Even as a union this article wouldn't fit.
Boy is he going to be surprised when he finds out that the government owns almost all the roads too.
[Fuck Beta]
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As an Arkansan, let me first point out, we don't have a DMV. License plates are handled by the Revenue Department. The Revenue Department is where money changes hands. . . business license, hunting license, boat registration, driver's license, sales tax, assessment? All in the same damn line. That Chinese fire drill of an office is busy enough, I can assure you no one is reviewing your plate. Case in point, I have a gay friend that got away with a plate that says PWR BTM. Honest to god. He has it on a white truck with a black racing stripe on the hood, so they call it the wide receiver. If that passed the revenue office, anything will.
Shouldn't that be FOAD?
FOADIAF
Here in Australia we dont have an issue. I've seen DILLIGAF, FACTHUNT and PORKHUNT on the road. EPICHUNT is still available in WA.
There were some plates with a picture of a starfish embossed on the right hand side issued some years back. Someone got CHOCOLATE.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
*sigh*
I wonder if I can get a license plate that says that.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
From years ago in Texas, hot chick in a red vet:
License Plate ==> QQQQ
...doesn't get approved either.
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I guess Oregon doesn't research foreign languages well, knew an Indonesian who had "CIMENG" (slang, google image search will reveal a meaning now), and "ANJING" (means dog, but it an expletive when yelled out, like "fuck!", when you are mad).
I totally cannot think of a better use of our money.
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Several years ago, a friend of mine was issued the CA sequential plate: 2GRT269. She immediately swapped it out for a custom plate, which, ironically, was much less memorable.
In a similar vein, once in a while I check the availability of the "sequential" plate 3XIV159. (I'd call it my Pi Plate: 3 14 159. Get it?) But it still seems to be in use. I wonder if its owner realizes what it means?
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It is protected by the first amendment. However, certain courts have 'interpreted' imaginary exceptions into the first amendment.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
I still fail to see why they should be allowed to prevent you from having such license plates.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
It seems to me that people who would be offended probably won't know what the textspeak means anyway, they might as well allow it.
I was going to ask, what about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
In my book, First Amendment protections of free speech don't extend to forcing the government to issue you a particular license plate.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
...they need to save people from themselves.
INFINIT on an Infiniti.
AUDIA6 on an Audi A6
BEEMER on a BMW.
STOP IT. (Maybe I'll put that on mine.)
Not sure why you're being moderated down...in any case, you're absolutely right. In California prisoners make the license plates, and they're also used by the DMV to 'screen' the vanity plates. Apparently they're far more skilled at the task then any other solution the DMV has tried. The CA DMV even checks the applications mirrored now, since some like 3M TA3 got through once upon a time.
Years ago one of the SF Bay area columnists reported a Porsche with the plate 3M TA3
I would guess the plate read "SN DREK", since the Yiddish for "eat" is "essen".
If I were running the agency I'd auction those off. Make more money that way.
There'd probably be a higher demand for those than the "normal" ones.
BTW the Chinese are known to be willing to pay more for plates with the letter 8.
Not really firm in Yiddish, but I guess it's grammar to be a little richer than English. There are many languages with an "imperative" verb form - Latin, French German to name a few. So while in English the sentences "lets eat cake" and "eat this!" both use the same verb, they would be different in other languages. "Ess" is used if you ask (or order) someone to do eat, while "essen" is used too describe the act of eating. So "S DREK" is quite correct.
Saw this one at a Marilyn Manson concert, thought it took a lot of balls to pull off. It's a pretty innocuous word in German, but has negative connotations in other languages.
Of the Liquor store owner who want the DMV to give him two vanity plate for him and his wife. He wanted to split the word COCKTAIL between the two cars.
Someone got the license plate "4 NIK 8".
It took the state a couple of weeks or months, but they figured out what it meant.
The state recalled the plate.
Honestly, I am not fine with that. Even denying the license plate "FUCK" shows far too much attention to the content of the plates. They shouldn't care...its numbers and letters to them....its a database key. Fuck that. These people are wasting my money, they shouldn't be doing petty shit with it.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
One of the best I've seen was a Jersey plate:
B1NDAZZ
Stay classy New Jersey.
Banning ROFLMAO seems a bit harsh to me, when the British DVLA is selling this for 599UKP ($950).
NE1 469
But ... but ... Any Rand ... Ron Paul ... I am an island ... mommy told me I was a special snowflake ...
"XPEH BAM", "HAXEP", "XEPOBO", "XPEHOBO", "MYTOPHO", "MYCOP", "3ACYHTE", "3ACYHEM", "MA3OK", "MAT", "CTEPBA", "CYKA" and so on should be safe for now.
If the government is restricting your ability to communicate an idea, I'd say it's a First Amendment issue.
If the government argues that it's not a method for communicating ideas, then there is no reason to care what character combination appears in that non-communication medium.
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Some states have removed this combo from regular plates though I've seen it here and there. One particular story was a child says to grandmother, "hey, you got WTF on your license plates! HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Older lady had no clue what her grandkid was talking about so she does a search on the internet. She then went to the motor vehicle dept and requested new plates.
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Was my description when ordering my California plates "YOU STFU". Sadly, I ordered, paid, and never picked them up LOL--in all reality probably not what I would want on my car today, but still funny that it went through.
If the government is restricting your ability to communicate an idea, I'd say it's a First Amendment issue.
But it doesn't restrict your ability to communicate an idea. If you really must paste "ROFLMAO" on your car, you can always put it on a bumper sticker.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
False dilemma. Just allow the plates.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
If you really must paste "ROFLMAO" on your car, you can always put it on a bumper sticker.
But they're restricting your ability to place it on the license plate. The fact that you can express the same thing in other ways is irrelevant.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
But they're restricting your ability to place it on the license plate. The fact that you can express the same thing in other ways is irrelevant.
No. It really isn't. The government is not suppressing your right of speech or expression in any way. The whole point of the First Amendment is to guarantee your right to speak and express your ideas. That is completely unaffected by whether or not the government is forced to provide you with a piece of metal with your favorite "offensive" acronym on it.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
No. It really isn't.
How is that not irrelevant? You might not think it's a violation of the first amendment, but are you saying that the mere fact that you're capable of expressing the idea in other ways automatically means they're not suppressing your speech/expression? If so, I can think of a number of things they could do; what a huge loophole.
You probably weren't saying that, but in that case, why say it's irrelevant? I'm not sure it's a first amendment violation, but I consider it as suppressing speech/expression.
That is completely unaffected by whether or not the government is forced to provide you with a piece of metal with your favorite "offensive" acronym on it.
But that same government forces you to have that piece of metal, and that same government allows other people to have similar pieces of metal as long as they deem it unoffensive. Regardless of the first amendment, I believe such ambiguous, subjective decisions made by the government are wrong.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
It's because Virginia charges $10/year for them. In Ohio it's $50. Personally, I think it's ridiculous to charge every year when they only have to make it once.
How is that not irrelevant? You might not think it's a violation of the first amendment, but are you saying that the mere fact that you're capable of expressing the idea in other ways automatically means they're not suppressing your speech/expression? If so, I can think of a number of things they could do; what a huge loophole.
You probably weren't saying that, but in that case, why say it's irrelevant? I'm not sure it's a first amendment violation, but I consider it as suppressing speech/expression.
If you have the option to express the same idea, in the same way, in the same forum, then it should be obvious that your freedom of expression is not being suppressed.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Sure it is. You can't express it on a license plate.
Using this logic (the part where it isn't a suppression of speech as long as you're technically still able to express that speech is some way), free speech zones are a-okay. After all, you can express anything you want. Just... do it over there!
At least in one way, speech/expression is being suppressed in an effort to keep certain people from being offended.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Sure it is. You can't express it on a license plate.
Using this logic (the part where it isn't a suppression of speech as long as you're technically still able to express that speech is some way), free speech zones are a-okay. After all, you can express anything you want. Just... do it over there!
No, it's not the same thing. Because you still have the right to paste whatever expression you want on your car. Whether or not you can put it on the license plate makes no difference to your ability to express yourself.
Note that so-called "free speech zones" have another crucial difference: in this case, you're trying to force the government to provide the forum for your "expression." That alone makes the scenarios completely dissimilar.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Because you still have the right to paste whatever expression you want on your car.
But not on the license plate. And that's the point: the fact that you have other avenues to express yourself doesn't mean you're not being restricted. For free speech zones, you must go to the free speech zones, and for the license plate issue, you must find another way to express the same thing on your car.
Note that so-called "free speech zones" have another crucial difference: in this case, you're trying to force the government to provide the forum for your "expression." That alone makes the scenarios completely dissimilar.
But that was not at all the point of my example (recall that I only compared one aspect of one scenario to one aspect of the other). Since this is the government, I do not believe it should be allowed to forbid only certain messages on license plates that they deem 'bad'.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
But not on the license plate. And that's the point: the fact that you have other avenues to express yourself doesn't mean you're not being restricted. For free speech zones, you must go to the free speech zones, and for the license plate issue, you must find another way to express the same thing on your car.
There is no difference in expression of your ideas if you put it on a license plate or on a bumper sticker. It reaches the same audience, it's in the same place.
The whole reason why "free speech zones" are bad (and why they're created) is because they are intended to actually restrict your expression of your ideas, generally by changing the audience you can reach. That simply doesn't apply to the license plate debate.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
There is no difference in expression of your ideas if you put it on a license plate or on a bumper sticker.
But they're still restricting you from placing it on the license plate. I don't see why the government should be able to do this.
Yes, technically, they're not restricting your expression itself. However, that's not really my point. The point is that they're attempting to control what you can put on the license plate even when it's possible to personalize them, and that they're doing it for a reason I believe is utterly absurd. And again, this is the government (paid for by taxes), not some random corporation. They force you to get a license plate to begin with, so I definitely don't see why they should get to decide what is and is not 'offensive'.
The whole reason why "free speech zones" are bad (and why they're created) is because they are intended to actually restrict your expression of your ideas, generally by changing the audience you can reach.
But you're right that it might change the audience you have access to. That's another difference.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Did you have a point? You may say its trite or time wasting, and I agree it is. However, individuals are not prohibited from being trite or time wasters. However, policing their activities, is even worst, because it means crafting policy, training workers, and dealing with whatever issues come up.... all over something "trite".
Individuals and tax payer funded organizations do not, and should not, be held to the same standards of behaviour. This isn't a case of some random org insituting a random policy, this is government run.
They should not have the power to have an opinion as to what is "offensive"...which is entirely in contrast to individuals, who are welcome to have whatever opinions they want.
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