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12 Mar 2005 11:38:13 PM |
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OT: N.C. {ROFLMAO-wiping tears from eyes} |
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S429v1.html#1
Short Title: Shag Dancing Special Registration Plate.
(Public)
Sponsors:
Senators Rand; and Hoyle.
Referred to:
Finance.
March 9, 2005
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the division of motor vehicles to issue a shag
dancing special license plate.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-79.4 is amended by adding a new subdivision to
read:
"(b) Types. – The Division shall issue the following types of
special registration plates:
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(38c) Shag Dancing. – Issuable to the registered owner of a motor
vehicle in accordance with G.S. 20-81.12. The plate may bear the
phrase "I'd Rather Be Shaggin'" and a picture representing shag
dancing."
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: N.C. {ROFLMAO-wiping tears from eyes} |
13 Mar 2005 02:44:21 AM |
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In article <jbk731dnrepss4bqhdhihf069ei1idp556@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S429v1.html#1
Short Title: Shag Dancing Special Registration Plate.
(Public)
Sponsors:
Senators Rand; and Hoyle.
Referred to:
Finance.
March 9, 2005
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the division of motor vehicles to issue a shag
dancing special license plate.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-79.4 is amended by adding a new subdivision to
read:
"(b) Types. – The Division shall issue the following types of
special registration plates:
…
(38c) Shag Dancing. – Issuable to the registered owner of a motor
vehicle in accordance with G.S. 20-81.12. The plate may bear the
phrase "I'd Rather Be Shaggin'" and a picture representing shag
dancing."
/end excerpt
They might not get away with that in California:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050306-9999-mz1c6plates.htm
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Clean plates
DMV censors won't grant license to offend
By John Wilkens
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 6, 2005
Last October, with the presidential election a month away, a letter
arrived at the Sacramento headquarters of the state Department of Motor
Vehicles.
"Recently I found out that the California personalized license plate 'F
DUBYA' is in use," the letter said. "As an American that lives in
California, I am offended that the DMV has allowed this plate to be
used."
Offended? Hard at first glance to see what's wrong. But if you read "F"
as an abbreviation for a certain four-letter word, and "DUBYA" as a
nickname for a certain occupant of the White House, you can see how some
might be offended, especially during a hotly contested election.
The DMV recalled the plate.
That happens about 10 times a year in California, a plate being pulled
because the DMV decides it's inappropriate and shouldn't have been
approved. The miracle is that it doesn't happen more often. Californians
submit about 150,000 applications per year for personalized plates, and
time has shown they are a creative bunch in trying to slip things past
the DMV's censors.
Some configurations look harmless, until they're read backward. Perfect
for the driver who wants to alarm or amuse a motorist who happens to
glance at the plate through a rear-view mirror.
Others are abbreviations of little-known, foul-mouthed sayings. Or words
that seem like nothing in English, but mean something in a different
language an increasing problem in the march of multiculturalism that is
California.
How many people know that HADAKA means "naked" in Japanese? (The DMV
does.)
Armando Botello, a spokesman for the DMV, said each application is
reviewed by two screeners who ferret out the forbidden by using slang
dictionaries, foreign-language dictionaries and lists of "unacceptable
combinations" compiled in the 30 years since personalized plates were
introduced.
Any group of words and letters that "may be considered offensive to good
taste and decency" is rejected. Familiar cuss words are obvious no-nos,
as are references to sexual acts. (The only way "69" is supposed to get
through, for example, is if it's going on a vehicle made in 1969.)
Applicants are required to explain what the word they are submitting
means, but the DMV knows that people lie. If the censors think a
proposal should be rejected, it gets reviewed by at least three more
screeners, Botello said.
As of Dec. 31, there were about 1 million personalized (also called
vanity) plates in California, Botello said. That means about 1 in every
21 cars or trucks has one of the markers.
To some people, the plates are a way of standing out in a crowd, and
they view any attempt to curtail what they say as an assault on freedom
of expression or an example of political correctness run amok.
In our consumer culture, as pop culture expert Robert Thompson, a
Syracuse University professor, has noted, we are what we own, and a
vanity plate (or a T-shirt or a bumper sticker) becomes a way of saying
something meaningful about us.
Of course, one person's message can be another person's insult. About 25
times a year, the DMV gets a letter complaining about a plate.
Last June, a motorist in Sacramento saw the plate "GOLIWOG" and
protested. "Though not used as often in the United States, it is a very
strong racial slur in Germany, England, Ireland, Greece and Australia,"
the letter writer said. (The DMV, in providing copies of several
complaint letters to the Union-Tribune, excised all identifying
information.)
The writer has a point. Webster's Dictionary identifies golliwog as "a
grotesque black doll used in illustrations by Florence K. Upton for a
series of children's books" published around 1900.
But there are people who collect the dolls they even have their own
international club and they deny the word is inherently racist. They
describe the golliwog as a "lovable, gallant character."
Whether the owner of the "GOLIWOG" plate is a collector is not known.
But the DMV ordered the plate pulled.
If the agency recalls a plate, the owner can ask for an administrative
hearing. The DMV usually wins, but not always. A lady in the Bay Area
once fought to keep her plate, which read "A *****." She'd had it for 20
years.
The judge ruled the plate was just fine for a longtime cat lover.
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No. The F DUBYA plate wasn't mine.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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| Title: Re: OT: N.C. {ROFLMAO-wiping tears from eyes} |
13 Mar 2005 06:57:42 AM |
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In article <jbk731dnrepss4bqhdhihf069ei1idp556@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S429v1.html#1
Short Title: Shag Dancing Special Registration Plate.
You know, I've been living in North Carolina for 46 years, and not ONCE
have I seen anyone shag dancing.
Maybe I need to get to the beach more often...
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| User: "Chris Thompson" |
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| Title: Re: OT: N.C. {ROFLMAO-wiping tears from eyes} |
13 Mar 2005 12:06:11 PM |
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stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote in
news:jbk731dnrepss4bqhdhihf069ei1idp556@4ax.com:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/HTML/S429v1.html
#1
Short Title: Shag Dancing Special Registration Plate.
Try
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/nydmv1.html
If you poke around on TSG you'll find they LOVE license plate stuff.
Chris
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