Posted on 03/25/2017 11:06:06 AM PDT by PROCON
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian provincial government has withdrawn a man's eponymous personalized vehicle license plate, saying Lorne Grabher's surname is offensive to women when viewed on his car bumper.
Grabher said Friday that he put his last name on the license plate decades ago as a gift for his late father's birthday, and says the province's refusal to renew the plate late last year is unfair.
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Obama’s name was offensive to me but nobody banned it...
I would like to participate in the solution.
Year ago when David Letterman was funny, he had a worst name contest - the finalists were Richard Head and Harry Dong. Harry won, with ID to prove it.
Canada’s been there before:
Dick Assman (1934 - ) is a Saskatchewan petrol station owner whose name propelled him to celebrity status across North America in 1995. Assman, who worked at Petro-Canada’s Victoria Square Mall station in Regina, was discovered by David Letterman, who was amused by his name. Assman was lavishly introduced on July 24, 1995, on The Late Show with David Letterman, where he was a nightly feature for about a month.
Years, not year.
If I lived up there I’d be inclined to have my name changed to Buster Hyman or Heywood Jablome just for sh*ts and giggles. :^)
His name needs to be gender neutral.
He should change it to “Grabit”.
I worked with a Mennonite named Peter Harder.
We used to actually watch Letterman occasionally back then.
There was a woman named Ima- who married a man with last name of potato-
Ima Potato -
I'm Dick Mayne, and I'm excited!
My stepdaughter worked in Baggage Resolution for an airline and once had to help find lost luggage for an Egyptian passenger named “Dom Fok.”
My dad’s nieighbor was Dick Chew.
And then there’s Seymour Beaver
Nobody has a sense of humor anymore
“I worked with a Mennonite named Peter Harder.’
I worked years ago with his fellow congregants Peter Friesen and Dick Froese, and the Dycks.
The ever popular Hugh Jas...
It doesn’t beat the Asiana Airlines flight crew when they pancaked their jet at SFO.
Sum Ting Wong
Wei Too Lo
Ho Li Fuk
and
Bang Dang Ow
Over my life I have known a number of Richard Head’s and Richard Holder’s.
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