Re: License Plates

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Jensen <sjensen@mindspring.com>


>A while back the paper had a feature about the section at the DMV that
>approves status plate applications.  Apparently some sneaky people were
>slipping some obscene things through, so these civil servants would read
>the applications backwards, forwards, and upside down to keep the creative
>from offending the public.  They also had a library of foreign language
>dictionaries at their disposal.
>
>Don't know if your state is as concerned - or as paranoid - as Georgia, but
>if it is, I don't think the QQQQ would be approved - say it out loud: "four
>(who?)".
>
Many years ago British number plates were flat sheets with individual
letters attached (a bit like those magnetic letter sets you see in
kindergarten), I remember a case of one guy who was prosecuted for modifying
the shape of one of his numbers. His registration? PEN 15 ...... now, I
wonder which number it was?


Jim Haseltine