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Internet Culture Makes Formerly Fine License Plate Obscene
from the way-to-go,-internet dept
For many years, of course, it's been common for internet users to make use of various shortcuts or acronyms to make common phrases much faster to type. While this "txt" speak may not harm anyone's grammar skills it has certainly introduced some new "words" into every day use. As submitted by Jon, it seems that's a problem for the 74-year-old woman in Ohio who had the vanity license plate: NWTF. To her, it meant "NorthWood Tree Farm," the business she owns. Apparently the youngsters at the motor vehicle bureau identified it more closely with internet usage of "wtf," usually meaning "what the f***." The N presents a bit of a problem, as it doesn't appear that many people use "nwtf," so the motor vehicle bureau just tacked on a "now" before the wtf -- and then rejected her renewal application for the license plate she's had for about a decade, telling her it broke the rules for obscenity on vanity plates. Of course, the folks at the National Wild Turkey Federation may have a thing or two to say about that.
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NWTF?
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wtf?
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Aargh
WTF!
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Now wtf are they going to do when someone wants a license plate stating wwjd?
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NWTF???
A, B, C, D, F, G, H, J, N, P, S, T.
(I know... probably all 26 letters have swear words associated with them. That's all I could come up with on short notice at 5 AM)
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HAHA!
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Ha! I predicted this!
Why? Just for fun...
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IMGuyA: NWTF r u gonna do about it?
IMGuyB: 1
IMGuyA: O NO U DIDN"T!!
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She should have 'NIPLE' as her License Plate...
Then she could definitely get away with her NWTF.
WTF!!!!
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only solution
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Typical GovThink
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Bigger Government Anyone?
Love those Democrats!!
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Re: Bigger Government Anyone?
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I just wish more people actually realised how bad the current goons are.
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WTF?
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GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Plates
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A friend of mine...
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Re: A friend of mine...
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Re: Re: A friend of mine...
4=a
7=t
5=s
I am sure you can get the rest...
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what is the internet?
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means 3=E 4=A 7=T
therefore 347 = "EAT"...
5=S H=H 1=I 7=T...
You do the math...
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That's all I gotta say to the Ohio DMV
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Stupid!
Vanity plates are a stupid idea anyway!
-often they are too personal that no one can even understand their meaning.
-If you can understand them, they are just stupid.
-If you break the law, you are too easy to identify with vanity plates.
-Vanity plates are more often than not associated with being vain.
So what is the point of vanity plates other than more funds to be misappropriate!
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Faulty Math
I've read through these posts and came up with:
"Eat shfingert"
NWTF?
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No Misappropriated funds HERE!
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Re: No Misappropriated funds HERE!
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(.)(.)
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BKDFKP
For instance, BKDFKP. None of you know what it means, to us car modifiers, its Back The F** Up, its not offensive to general public because they dont know what it means. However they were taken away because of FK.
Another one, RAC15T. Race 1st... Taken away because its "Racist" or so they think.
All in all, nothing new, governments owned an old lady... business as usual to them!
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FTP?
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So what's new
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i saw a random one that had WTF as the last 3 letters
another random one that had XXX as the last three
and one that had WTH as the last three
as a computer guy i also notice ones that have
DSL, PHP, ASP, and probably half a dozen other computer acronyms i cant remember atm
oh ya ATM :)
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Literacy and Comprehension
However, my friend and I have made a game of using letters we see on license plates and making words and phrases (some innocent, some not). This proves the point that anything can be viewed as obscene or inflammatory, regardless of the intention of its creator.
In my opinion, since that plate has not been disputed in the 10 years that she has had it, there should be enough precedent to keep it.
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