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Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: midnight Target on March 18, 2002, 10:15:19 AM

Going too far or just avoiding the slippery slope?

Its a short article (http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/1303068/detail.html) so take a look.

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2002, 10:20:24 AM

Going too far. It's not like she has a license plate that says, "IH8NGRS" on it. :rolleyes:

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Mickey1992 on March 18, 2002, 10:26:38 AM

Going too far.  Ohio recently banned people from using "H8" on plates which I understand (like "IH8Fords", "IH8U"), but this goes too far.  There was a woman two years ago in Ohio who went to court to fight to get "Hooker" on her plate.  I think she won because her last name really was Hooker and the courts ruled that it wasn't offensive.

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2002, 10:28:52 AM

So, I guess "FAW Q" is right out in Ohio?

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: midnight Target on March 18, 2002, 12:07:50 PM

Well, it seems like it went too far on the surface. There may be some merit to this rule though.

Who is the arbiter of which ethnic description is ok and which is not? Do we want to set up another government office specifically to determin this? It is possible to have a word that is not demeaning to some, but very demeaning to others of the same ethnic group.

How about this one?
Polock (sp?)

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Elfenwolf on March 18, 2002, 12:23:04 PM

They just had a DMV decision in Florida revoking a man's vanity license plate of 16 years because it said "athiest".

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2002, 12:45:16 PM

Florida is in the south, right?

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: midnight Target on March 18, 2002, 12:59:32 PM

He should have offered to change it to "A Theist" then see what they say.:D

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: mietla on March 18, 2002, 03:10:42 PM

utter nonsense :(

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Kratzer on March 18, 2002, 04:09:17 PM

These are pretty funny - from the Smoking Gun:

New York (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/nydmvb1.shtml)

Florida (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/flatags1.shtml)

Wisconsin (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/wiscplates1.shtml)

Washington (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/washplates1.shtml)  - these are some of the best.  CNLNGS apparently means 'Chemical/Nuclear Lungs'.  Who'd've thunk it. ;)

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2002, 04:17:39 PM

In New York... WAFFNSS. What does this mean?

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Kratzer on March 18, 2002, 05:13:30 PM

If you are serious...

Waffen SS - the 'army' branch of the SS.

Title: had me stumped too Sandman...
Post by: midnight Target on March 18, 2002, 05:21:05 PM

or

White
Anglo Saxon
Female
Fornicator
Never
Shaves or
Swallows

just a guess:)

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Kratzer on March 18, 2002, 05:25:45 PM

or...

We
All
Flatuate
Fluidly
'Nto
Sandman's
Salad

;)

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Sandman on March 18, 2002, 05:38:37 PM

:eek:

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: mrfish on March 18, 2002, 05:41:10 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Elfenwolf
They just had a DMV decision in Florida revoking a man's vanity license plate of 16 years because it said "athiest".

god didn't send his only miraculously begotten son for us to make light of it elfenwolf.

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Elfenwolf on March 18, 2002, 07:08:06 PM

Yeah, Mister Fish, that's for sure. I heard it last night on a replay of Dr. Dean Edell's radio show. The gentleman whose license plate was revoked related how people flipped him off, threw stuff at him and keyed his car in parking lots. Talk about good Christian behavior, huh?

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: mrfish on March 18, 2002, 07:36:27 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Yeah, Mister Fish, that's for sure. I heard it last night on a replay of Dr. Dean Edell's radio show. The gentleman whose license plate was revoked related how people flipped him off, threw stuff at him and keyed his car in parking lots. Talk about good Christian behavior, huh?

sure beats a stake burnin' though!

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: moose on March 18, 2002, 09:20:50 PM

hey hitech

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/washplates8.shtml

are you sure heater doesnt live in washington?

Title: Get your Irish up?
Post by: Cobra on March 18, 2002, 09:39:27 PM

Quote

Originally posted by mrfish


sure beats a stake burnin' though!

Or a Spanish Inquisition......nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Cobra

Or even all the babbling heads on this BBS for that matter ;)