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Bollocks (tm)
In message <3.0.3.16.19971218105517.2fe753c8@n-jcenter.com> Mike Arman writes:
> There's a Jeep Cherokee running around Daytona Beach with the license plate
> "BOLLOCKS" on it. Obviously no one in the Florida DMV is from the UK or
> speaks Brit!
>
> Saw it twice, second time spoke with owner, he says I'm the first person in
> a year who knew what it meant.
The DVLA suppresses such character strings as "SEX" and suchlike.
Apparently they never thought to check the Welsh vocabulary, and vehicles
registered in Shropshire were going into Wales, according to some of the Welsh,
correctly labeled.
--
Phil Payne
Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club