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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
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 16:30:29 1984
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>	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
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