Rule #1: No Poofters

[ifcar]

A Vehicle for Self-Expression? Not on These Roads

For 11 years, over nearly 200,000 miles, with the blessing of the state of Virginia, David Phillips has driven his Tracker with the "POOFTER" license plate, and nobody has complained -- not even when he parked at the British Embassy, where everybody knows "poofter" is British slang for a gay man.

"It's always a rolling good laugh for them," says Phillips, who is gay and chose his tags' message because "it's just an amusing word that I self-identify with."

The commonwealth of Virginia is not amused. It gave Phillips his vanity plates in error, Carolyn Easley, coordinator of the special license plates office, wrote in a recent letter. "You may have grown fond of your personalized plates," but they are "socially, racially or ethnically offensive or disparaging" and "you must return them." There was no explanation for why it took Virginia 11 years to figure out what "poofter" means.

Continued:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301111.html

[omicron]

Haha, fantastic!

Typical clods in the government.

[TheIntrepid]

ASSORGY > that.

[S204STi]

Yeah, same thing happened to the Udink family in Utah.  They had two cars, UDINK1 and UDINK2.  It also took them a good decade or so to decide it was offensive.

Funny thing was that the radio jerk who was talking about it hadn't a clue how Dink was supposed to be offensive...I wouldn't have known either unless I'd lived in New England.

[S204STi]

ASSORGY > that.

Yeah, I'd take an ass orgy over that anyday...

[dazzleman]

Yeah, same thing happened to the Udink family in Utah.  They had two cars, UDINK1 and UDINK2.  It also took them a good decade or so to decide it was offensive.

Funny thing was that the radio jerk who was talking about it hadn't a clue how Dink was supposed to be offensive...I wouldn't have known either unless I'd lived in New England.

What does "Dink" mean?  I've heard it used as a demographic acronym for "Double Income No Kids."

[S204STi]

Wang, cock, dick, meat, pony, ham etc...

[dazzleman]

Wang, cock, dick, meat, pony, ham etc...

Never heard it before.  It must be used more in northern New England where you lived than southern New England where I live.

[CALL_911]

ASSORGY > that.

Trep=flamer.

[S204STi]

Never heard it before.  It must be used more in northern New England where you lived than southern New England where I live.

Quite possible.  Funny how regional slang works that way.

[James Young]

Never heard it before.  It must be used more in northern New England where you lived than southern New England where I live.

Southern New England?  Is that another term for Northern Brooklyn?  

[dazzleman]

Southern New England?  Is that another term for Northern Brooklyn?  

So you do have a sense of humor after all, man....well done...

Actually, you're half onto something.  My part of Connecticut is very much tied in with New York, though Brooklyn accents are very hard to come by here.  But the Boston dialect is definitely not commonly used this far south.

[sparkplug]

I thought it meant you had gas.

[TheIntrepid]

Yeah, I'd take an ass orgy over that anyday...

[dazzleman]

[TheIntrepid]

[Soup DeVille]

A55 RGY

It actually could be a normal non-vanity plate.

[TheIntrepid]

It actually IS a non-vanity plate, Soup.

[Secret Chimp]

I saw a Buick (!) with the license plate "PRON STAR" a few weeks ago. No joke.

[TBR]

There goes the whole "homosexual guys are well groomed" stereotype.

[TheIntrepid]

There goes the whole "homosexual guys are well groomed" stereotype.

I've been thinking that this guy is Iffy's true identity. When else does he make threads that aren't directly car-related?

[Eye of the Tiger]

Do you think Maine would ever catch on if I got a WTFBBQ vanity plate? Or should I just go with 8008135?

[ifcar]

I've been thinking that this guy is Iffy's true identity. When else does he make threads that aren't directly car-related?

When I'm posting links to The Washington Post.

I don't have a Tracker, I definitely don't look like a walrus, and I'm not a poofter.

[93JC]

I don't have a Tracker, I definitely don't look like a walrus, and I'm not a poofter.

Sure...

[TheIntrepid]

When I'm posting links to The Washington Post.

I don't have a Tracker, I definitely don't look like a walrus, and I'm not a poofter.

That's what you want us to think.

Is the Sedona your parents'?

[ifcar]

No...

A Tracker isn't a logical choice. Haven't I made my position on logic clear?

[TheIntrepid]

No...

A Tracker isn't a logical choice. Haven't I made my position on logic clear?

Well it's small,cheap, and relatively unattractive to look at. Why WOULDN'T you buy one?

What's your explanation on the not looking like a walrus part? 

[ifcar]

A Tracker is a truck. I don't need a truck. Besides, walrus-boy probably has the stereotypical convertible.

You'll just have to take my word for not looking like a walrus.

[93JC]

You're a flaming poof, though?

[TheIntrepid]