'Merlot' A No-No On Utah License Plate

CBS NEWS ^ | 3-18-2007

[Cagey]

AP) Merlot can be a variety of grape or a type of red wine, but not an acceptable personalized license plate in the state of Utah.

Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the license plate reading "merlot" for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.

Six or seven-letter words like liquor or whiskey probably wouldn't make it through the state screening process before the plates are issued. But merlot did and Eurick was fine until an anonymous caller told the state that merlot was also an alcoholic beverage.

Eurick's car with the offending plate is dark red, like the wine. He said few people who asked about the plate made the connection. Though one man did ask "if we chose merlot because there were too many letters in cabernet sauvignon," Eurick said.

Eurick said he will challenge the state's decision.

[the invisib1e hand]

the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.

oh please, GTFU. (the "G" stands for "grow.")

[the invisib1e hand]

the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.

oh please, GTFU. (the "G" stands for "grow.")

[the invisib1e hand]

I suppose it was worth repeating...

[Cagey]

Well, those Revenoors need something to keep themselves busy with.

[Issaquahking]

Here in a border town, next to Utah, I believe you can still get T-shirts with -

"Welcome to Utah
Now set your clock back 25 years."

[L98Fiero]

"But merlot did and Eurick was fine until an anonymous caller told the state that merlot was also an alcoholic beverage."

What a sad excuse for a life this petty person must have.

[Farmer Dean]

Ratted out by an uptight,neurotic Mormon?

[Natchez Hawk]

...maybe the state can establish a tip line!

[Cagey]

"Lips that touch Merlot shall never touch mine!"

[andy58-in-nh]

He ought to try: HATU 3M TA3

Imagine it in your rear view mirror.

[Osage Orange]

Probably Harry Reid...

He always looks pretty uptight to me...and I'm quite sure ol' Searchlight is neurotic.

[Cagey]

LOL!

[csvset]

What would President Mitt pardon him ?

[Osage Orange]

What if your last name was Coors?

Or, your first name was Bud?

[Utah Binger]

We are pleased to report that the little UHP idiot that parks his car on the hillside overlooking the Buckskin Lounge near Fredonia, Arizona on the Utah border, has now been transferred to St. George, Utah. His favorite thing was to drive down and check out all the cars at the bar and then go back to the border and wait for them to come out so he could issue DUI's. Yes it is wrong to drink and drive, but entrapment is against the law. Watch out over there in Mesquite.

[muir_redwoods]

I knew a fellow named Richard and his last name began with "U" but the state of CT wouldn't give him "DICK U" for a vanity plate.

Go figure

[Ieatfrijoles]

The meth problem in Utah is for another day. This deserves priority.

[Repeal The 17th]

Someone should send them this list so they can put out an
"all points bulletin, be on the look out for"
any license plates with any of these names of grapes:
Abouriou
Acolon
Agawam
Agiorgitiko
Aglianico
Airén
Albariño
Aleatico
Alexsandrouli
Alicante Bouschet
Aligoté
Alvarelhão
Ancellotta
Aramon
Arbois
Aubun
Aurore
Auxerrois
Bacchus
Baco 22A
Baco noir
Barbaroux
Barbera
Bastardo
Beaujolais
Beta
Black Muscat
Black Rose
Blauer Portugieser
Blaufränkisch
Bonarda Piemontese
Bondola
Bourboulenc
Braquet
Breidecker
Bual
Busuioacă de Bohotin
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Gemischt
Cabernet Gernischt
Cabernet Sauvignon
Canadice
Canaiolo
Carignane
Carmenère
Catawba
Cayuga White
Cesanese Comune
Cesar
Chambourcin
Chancellor
Charbono
Chardonel
Chardonnay
Chasselas
Chelois
Chenin Blanc
Chenin
Ciliegolo
Cinsaut
Clairette Blanc
Colombard
Concord
Corot noir
Corvina
Couderc Noir
Croatina
Crouchen
De Chaunac
Dolcetto
Dornfelder
Duras
Durif
Edelweiss
Ehrenfelser
Fer
Fetească
Fetească Neagră
Fetească Regală
Folle Blanche
Freisa
Fromenteau
Fuella
Furmint
Gamay
Gamay Beaujolais
Garganega
Gewürztraminer
Golden raisin
Gouais Blanc
Grand Noir de la Calmette
Grapput
Graševina
Grenache
Grignolino
Grillo
Grolleau
Gros Verdot
Grüner Veltliner
Hárslevelű
Herbert
Hermitage grape
Heunisch
Himrod
Huxelrebe
Jaeger 70
Juhfark
Kadarka
Kay Gray
Khvanchkara
Kratosija
La Crosse
Lagrein
Lambrusco
Macabeo
Madeleine Angevine
Malbec
Malvasia
Malvasia Nera
Maratheftiko
Marechal Foch
Marsanne
Marzemino
Massasoit
Mauzac
Mavro
Melon de Bourgogne
Mencia
Merille
Merlot
Minnesota 78
Mission
Mondeuse Noire
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Morio Muscat
Mourvèdre
Müller-Thurgau
Muscadelle
Muscadine
Muscat (grape and wine)
Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains
Muscat Ottonel
Muscat of Alexandria
Nebbiolo
Negroamaro
Nerello
Nero d'Avola
Niagara
Nielluccio
Noiret
Norton
Palomino
Pamid
Pascal Blanc
Pecorino
Pedro Ximénez
Petit verdot
Pineau d'Aunis
Pinot blanc
Pinot gris
Pinot meunier
Pinot noir
Pinotage
Piquepoul Noir
Plantet
Plavac Mali
Portugieser
Poulsard
Prosecco
Raboso
Refosco
Regent
Requa
Riesling
Rkatsiteli
Rogers' Hybrids
Rondinella
Rondo grape
Rotberger
Roussane
Roussanne
Rubired
Ruby Cabernet
Ruché
Sagrantino
Salvador
Sangiovese
Sauvignon blanc
Savagnin
Scheurebe
Sciacarello
Scuppernong
Seibel grapes
Sémillon
Sercial
Seyval Blanc
Shiraz
Siegerrebe
Silvaner
Smederevka
St. Laurent
St. Pepin
Sultana
Susumaniello
Table grape
Tannat
Tarrango
Tempranillo
Teroldego
Terret Noir
Tibouren
Tinta Barroca
Tinta Cao
Tocai Rosso
Torrontés
Touriga Francesa
Touriga Nacional
Traminette
Trebbiano
Trollinger
Trousseau Gris
Uva di Troia
Valdiguié
Valvin muscat
Verdelho
Verdicchio
Vermentino
Vidal Blanc
Vignoles
Viognier
Vitis aestivalis
Vitis amurensis
Vitis californica
Vitis cinerea
Vitis doaniana
Vitis labrusca
Vitis labruscana
Vitis lincecumii
Vitis mustangensis
Vitis riparia
Vitis rupestris
Vitis vinifera
Vranec
Welschriesling
Xynisteri
Zante currant
Zinfandal
Zinfandel
Zweigelt

[BenLurkin]

Sounds good to me.

I'd set it back fifty years if I could.