By “guy” do you mean @jlw, the publisher? That I linked to?
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I was expecting you to dish on your life of crime but maybe there’s something about the PTA and neighborhood gatherings I don’t know.
And I’m only being mildly sarcastic because I imagine some cops give the stinkeye to some pretty benevolent groups.
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Not just you.
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Makes me think of one of the parents at my daughter’s preschool who had. “IB6UB9”
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Whoops, yes… I missed your original post, and saw only the second, one-word post. Sorry 'bout the redundancy.
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Not the first vanity plate to be won through a lawsuit, Vanity Plates Win
I have ‘I D0UBT’.
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BoingBoing only has two speeds, delirious joy and frenzied contempt.
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Vanity license plate approval has always been hella paranoid about anything that might be remotely offensive to any observer. That is literally part of the job description. It’s something they get fired for not doing. There are so many stories about custom plates being denied because they’re similar to/an acronym for something sexual. (Usually on purpose.)
This time the job-mandated paranoia crossed a different line, so the court system rectified it and now all is well. Maybe there needs to be a policy change clarifying exactly what counts as offensive; write your Congressman. But as of now, this is a tempest in a teapot.
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Wouldn’t you write your state representatives? Since it’s the states DMVs that issue the plates, not the feds.
Or are you implying that there is some sort of colluding going on between the various states’ bureaucracies?
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“Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people.”
“People with nicknames on their license plates.”
“Excellent, Jack. Do you believe life without death is somehow incomplete?”
“How could it be incomplete? Death is what makes it incomplete.”
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I wonder who has the 1ST through 7TH EIST?
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Intel?
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A satanist plate would be cool, but then again all the vanity plate people I know are douchebags.
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I just remember working at the Cleveland Natural History museum as a teen and seeing a sports car in the parking lot with the plate “PBFOOT1”. I thought that that was sufficiently nerdy and clever 
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The headline > the article. It gives me hope for a maybe getting my SubG plates someday.
Once I saw my first “FELCH” license plate, I knew the DMV’s War on Secret Filth was over.
It’s just the stock line for banal government complaints. Angry about grain subsidies? Write your Congressman. New stoplight is too long? Write your Congressman.
Well, it can often work to resolve issues. For example, my neighbor who has put a vacation hold for her mail kept getting mail delivered. She had complained multiple times to the local postmaster, but nothing changed. Also, it was annoying because she travels a lot and I was conscripted into picking up her mail. I finally convinced her to contact our local congressperson, and his people got this fixed. How do we know this? Well, besides this last three-week vacation hold being error-free, our carrier told her that he got chewed out by his supervisor.
So if you take the time and send a well-written complaint, most of our elected officials do follow up. I find that grievances are most effective for bureaucratic complaints rather than policy votes (i.e., grain subsidies).
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