Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nbs-amrf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!hopp From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Personalized License Plates in California Message-ID: <180@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 16:30:29 EST Article-I.D.: nbs-amrf.180 Posted: Thu Feb 2 16:30:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:13:20 EST References: <1175@sdccs6.UUCP> Organization: National Bureau of Standards Lines: 19 > A few days ago I tried to order a personalized license plate. > FOOBAR & FUBAR were already taken. In fact FUBAR1 thru FUBAR7 were > also taken and FOOBAR 1-4 were too. So I tried for AMFYOYO which is > an hospital abbreviation for allright mother F****r you're on you're > own. It was rejected on the grounds it was obscene. Does any one > want to guess why one is legally obscene and the others not. The > DMV only sent me a postcard and refuses to elaborate. Could it be that FUBAR has a reasonable interpretation as "fouled up beyond all repair" (recognition, etc.), but AMFYOYO can only be interpreted in a way unacceptable to the Keepers of American Morality? Ted -- Ted Hopp UUCP: umcp-cs!nbs-amrf!hopp National Bureau of Standards ARPA: hopp.nbs-amrf@maryland (maybe) Metrology A127 BELL: (301)921-2461 Washington, DC 20234