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)
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. :-(
LOL! Got it. I live in a bubble it seems.
One of the funniest and saddest I ever saw was on a Vet that read "WAS HIS"
Yes.
Sweetheart, you are trouble!
;-)
Your momma always said you'd meet boys like me after you'd had a kid!
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.
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.
That is one of the best plates I have seen.
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.
which reminds me of the following...
what did the asian couple name their retarded child...?
Sum Ting Wong
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!
Reminds me of one I saw several years ago that got past our moronic DMV: IB6UB9.
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.
You win the award for the most confusing typo in the history of FR. Hands down.
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?
Wicked, wicked, wicked...
Good thing I listened to her!
This fall pretty much into complaining about people whistling obscene songs category.
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