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)
I'm ashamed I do. Think Dustin Hoffman and Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate". CooCooKaChoo!
OH MY WORD. I'M DYIN' HERE!
Now tell me that was issued by the State of Florida at random...
Amazing, isn't it?
ROTFLMAO!!!
Ok.
My kind of crowd!
Guilty as charged.
It still doesn't make sense!
But then nothing out of hollywood makes sense, much less what they claim to be english.
btw - I did NOT see American Pie - from what I heard when it came out, it wasn't worth watching unless you were a 10-13 yr old male
Mom I'd Like to F-word.
I had assumed that is was closely related to the subject, but this stupid person could not quite figure out the exact words.
P.S. Run Wife!
Yeah, and when I go there I order PUD PRIK KING. Oh the horror of Thai food.
I can think of people who would never get away with it.
You and me both. Just the previews said to me that it wasn't made for anyone who thinks with their brain.
Yup. :)
I'm usually the first one to protect the kiddies from real filth..but really how many tiny children have watched American Pie? Heck I didn't know what it meant til my husband told me.. I think the guy should be able to keep his plates, only the grownups and some evil teens are gonna know what it means anyhow.
crappy car. though they shouldve let him keep the plate
It makes perfect sense. It is an acronym for an exceptionally attractive older women.
But then nothing out of hollywood makes sense, much less what they claim to be english.
MILF has nothing to do with Hollywood. Was around long before American Pie.
btw - I did NOT see American Pie - from what I heard when it came out, it wasn't worth watching unless you were a 10-13 yr old male
The American Pie series of movies is one of the funniest series of movies made in a long long time. The last one, American Wedding had me, my wife, and our best friends on the floor laughing so hard we couldnt breath. And we are all over 30!
The best i saw was TIKCUF.
It's not a question - it's a statement as in: There goes a ...
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