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End Of Road For GOTMILF License Plate
The Smoking Gun ^ | July 21, 2004 | TSG

Posted on 07/29/2004 11:04:56 AM PDT by Constitution Day

End Of Road For GOTMILF License Plate

"Offensive" vanity tag yanked by Washington officials

JULY 21--This is the story of GOTMILF. In May 2002, Michael Syravong filed a "personalized license plate application"with Washington's Department of Licensing. GOTMILF was Syravong's first choice among the three possible personalized tags he listed on the state form (he would have settled for SUPL8EZ or RCKSTAR). Asked for the meaning of GOTMILF, Syravong wrote, "Manual Inline Lift Fluctuator," which he would later claim was some kind of automotive gizmo. The 25-year-old software engineer's license plate choice was, amazingly, approved by bureaucrats who obviously never saw the film "American Pie" and were clueless about the acronym's real meaning.

Unfortunately for Syravong, however, two offended citizens knew that the plate was actually his sly play on the Got Milk? slogan crossed with the raunchy acronym. In February, 21 months after Syravong got the personalized plate for his Toyota (pictured), an aggrieved Washingtonian e-mailed a complaint to state officials. A second beef was received in April from a disgusted Snohomish parent who did not want "my children seeing this and inquiring as to what it means." Acting on the first complaint, state officials wrote Syravong seeking his response to the complaint. Fighting to keep GOTMILF, he responded with a letter that desperately tried to explain away his license plate. Despite Syravong's invocation of Bill of Rights protections, members of Washington's Personalized Plate Review Committee were not swayed by his argument--and even hinted that he may have committed a crime (making a false or misleading statement to a public servant) when he submitted his original plate application. In April, the state review committee voted to cancel Syravong's tag. He got the bad news in an April 13 letter chiding him for providing "inconsistent information regarding the definition of the plate." Stripped of GOTMILF, Syravong was forced to replace his distinctive tag with PUNISHR. We're counting the days until a motorist writes in to complain that Syravong's new plate advocates domestic violence or has S&M undertones. (9 pages)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Washington
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To: ApplegateRanch

A former next-door neighbor had that message on a nice coir doormat. I've been looking all over the net for that one and
I can't find it. :-(


201 posted on 07/29/2004 6:00:58 PM PDT by stands2reason (Kerry/Edwards: TERRORISTS FLEE FROM BETTER HAIR!!!)
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To: NCjim

LOL! Got it. I live in a bubble it seems.


202 posted on 07/29/2004 6:04:28 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: Phantom Lord
Best license plate ever...

One of the funniest and saddest I ever saw was on a Vet that read "WAS HIS"

203 posted on 07/29/2004 6:10:06 PM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: LurkerNoMore!
Do I like causing trouble?

Yes.

204 posted on 07/29/2004 6:16:48 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
Do I like causing trouble?

Sweetheart, you are trouble!
;-)

205 posted on 07/29/2004 6:21:58 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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To: LurkerNoMore!

Your momma always said you'd meet boys like me after you'd had a kid!


206 posted on 07/29/2004 6:55:21 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: RockinRight; TheBigB; Slings and Arrows; Area Freeper; OSHA; scott0347; Happygal
Chau:

Are you tellin' me there are bungholes who haven't seen the best freakin' comedy of the entire freakin' century? Chau does not compute. AMERICAN PIE KICKS ASS MAN! Especially that John Cho dude. Man, does that sucka kick ass! His sexamataz makes Richard Grieco's acting look like an ass-munch humping drywall.

Yeah, we had to dump the old b***!

John, from "American Wedding."

207 posted on 07/29/2004 7:06:33 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (10M. It's gone. It's gone. Never to return again. We'll miss you 10M. Now and forevermore.)
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To: arjay

I would normally agree with you, but in this case the "obscenity" is so vague, that not many decent people understand what it means. If I spoke some obscure language and kept using the word "veecrum" and you didn't know it meant something obscene, you wouldn't be bothered by it.


208 posted on 07/29/2004 7:08:37 PM PDT by Awestruck (The artist formerly known as Goodie D)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

That is one of the best plates I have seen.


209 posted on 07/29/2004 7:08:41 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Go Gordon
Vet >> Vette
210 posted on 07/29/2004 7:10:46 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: Jet Jaguar
Come on.

You have to know that the term I just coined will be incorporated by some other freeper-without due credit, of course-in the coming days.

I GOT THE "SEXAMATAZ" BEEYOTCH!

211 posted on 07/29/2004 7:14:57 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (10M. It's gone. It's gone. Never to return again. We'll miss you 10M. Now and forevermore.)
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To: TheBigB

which reminds me of the following...

what did the asian couple name their retarded child...?

Sum Ting Wong


212 posted on 07/29/2004 7:20:02 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Gun Owners. The front line of homeland defence)
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To: Constitution Day; Mr. Mojo; NCjim
Filipino moro:

Are you kidding?(!) Those chicks from Mindanao are wild! They do the most harem things that you can imagine. I'm talkin' East European call-girl crazy! Even the Costa Ricans call them sluts. THE COSTA-FREAKIN-RICANS!

213 posted on 07/29/2004 7:27:54 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (10M. It's gone. It's gone. Never to return again. We'll miss you 10M. Now and forevermore.)
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To: Phantom Lord

Reminds me of one I saw several years ago that got past our moronic DMV: IB6UB9.


214 posted on 07/29/2004 7:33:41 PM PDT by liberallyconservative
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To: liberallyconservative; OSHA; scott0347; Fedora; lavrenti; cyborg
Harold:

Yeh dude. That plate sucks ass something fierce.

Kumar:

Not as bad as "ChauRules" though.

(Harold smacks Kumar in the head.)

What the hell was that for?

Harold:

Chau rules. You know it dude. Stop fronting like your some kind of majestic turd from Christy Turlington's heinie...Dude, where the hell's the "White Castle?"

Kumar:

Dude, just 'cause I'm East Indian don't make me friggin' Mahatma Gandhi, ya know? Get off my case. I'M STONED FOR GOODNESS SAKE! Got a mad case of munchies.

Harold:

Then let's jet brother. Let's jet.

215 posted on 07/29/2004 7:42:43 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (10M. It's gone. It's gone. Never to return again. We'll miss you 10M. Now and forevermore.)
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To: cinFLA; Go Gordon

You win the award for the most confusing typo in the history of FR. Hands down.


216 posted on 07/30/2004 5:32:52 AM PDT by Area Freeper (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!)
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To: arjay; Constitution Day
It may be funny to many of you, but it is simply offensive to me and I applaud the DMV for revoking it.

I am most definitely not a prude, but I have to agree with you. Something like that which a number of people find offensive simply does not belong on a state-issued license plate.

Now where can I get a GOTMILF bumper sticker?

217 posted on 07/30/2004 5:39:46 AM PDT by green iguana (It's a joke, I swear, it's a joke.)
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To: ValerieUSA

Wicked, wicked, wicked...


218 posted on 07/30/2004 8:11:18 AM PDT by Darksheare (Lunatic turtle on the barnyard fence with a fruitcake gun, shouting many squirrels..)
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To: Senator Pardek
Your momma always said you'd meet boys like me after you'd had a kid!

Good thing I listened to her!

219 posted on 07/30/2004 9:48:36 AM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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To: arjay
Why should people put obscene material on their license plates and shove it in our faces.

This fall pretty much into complaining about people whistling obscene songs category.

220 posted on 07/30/2004 4:41:01 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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