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Finally I can see that butter colored monstrosity around Clarendon and know EXACTLY what it is.

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"Cheering for Ron Paul" by Robert Scheer

"As I told my office mate, don't fuck with a queen over 40 - you will not win."

where was that advice when diana needed it...and by the way, 'office mate'? odd choice of words.

i wonder if the 'i brake for wide stances' bumper sticker got the thumbs up as well...

Um...wasn't the whole point of Phillips's rather information-filled Craig story that this particular poofter was not, in fact, on top?

When will his mustache return to its home planet?

This is a great victory for bearish Senator-fuckers everywhere.

We can't stop our soldiers from being blown to bits in Iraq, we can't keep minority voters from being disenfranchised by the Justice Department, but dammit, this guy gets to keep his vanity plate. Who says the system doesn't work!

This is really also a victory for the American variety of English -- a word means something else an ocean away, who the fuck cares? It'a a cute-sounding nonsense word here and that's all that matters.

I wonder if "first amendment rights" is really the way to go on this. Because seriously, I don't want to see the GODHATESFAGS license plate.

If anything, this just goes to show how stupid the whole vanity plates thing has gotten in Virginia. Virginia needs to unilaterally get rid of the whole concept. License plates are there to tell you that you've registered the vehicle -- not as your personal billboard. Those are called bumper stickers.

@norbizness:

Evidently he had only enough Just For Men (a product name with more meaning than its makers intended) for half the project. He could have made the other choice - dividing the tinted and untinted portions at the midline.

Finally! Something to give thanks for tomorrow!

ASS MAN was already taken?

Does his collision policy cover the increased likelihood of being rear-ended?

@1974:

Let 'em say what they want; that way everyone can identify the real douchebags more readily.

Vanity plates facilitate selectivity in both law enforcement and vandalism. Cops know which drivers to harass, taggers know which vehicles to fuck up.

scritchyscratchystatic: "Calling all cars, we've got a section 34C clocked at 125mph on 66, bright goldenrod '01 Jeep 2001, license plate Poofter. That's P-O-O-F-T-E-R. Ya know, faggot in British. Over."

@FlownOver: Have you been to Virginia? Because seriously EVERYONE has a vanity plate. It's insane. It costs like $5 extra to get one in Virginia. There aren't enough taggers and law enforcement officials in Virginia to harass them all. Besides, the taggers and law enforcement officials themselves have vanity plates. I can almost guarantee it.

It's the small victories such as this that keep me from becoming suicidal.

Perhaps this is old hat; My two favorite bumper stickers seen in the DC area within the last five years:

"Jesus Loves You, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole."

"Stop Continental Drift."

Didn't "Larry Craig Fucked Me In The Ass" fit on a license place?

I was under the impression that First Amendment rights didn't necessarily apply to vanity plates because the plates aren't yours; they're the property of the DMV.

But hey - good for him.

@FlyingChainSaw: How about Neocon Jizz Pit?

Someday your license plate will be a bar code, then it will be your DNA sequence. This will be remembered as the golden age of self-expression, when you could tell the world everything about you in 8 characters.

@WadISay: Calling all Paultards and Truthers!

Thank God. I can sleep easily tonight.

one small step for poofters but the battle isn't over until bob allen is set free.
FREE BOB ALLEN!!

@Godless Liberal: My God, is this what I will become?

Don't fuck with a queen over 40? I thought that was a given.

@PeteJäyhawk™: Wooley v. Maynard, 470 U.S. 705, 1977 decided that First Amendment rights applied as to license plate by denying the State of New Hampshire's claim to be able to punish Maynard for covering up the moto 'Live Free or Die'. Person property was, in part, a concern of the decision as the Court wrote, "The State is seeking to communicate to others an official view as to proper appreciation of history, state pride, and individualism. Of course, the State may legitimately pursue such interests in any number of ways. However, where the State's interest is to disseminate an ideology, no matter how acceptable to some, such interest cannot outweigh an individual's First Amendment right to avoid becoming the courier for such message."

One of the greatest outcomes of the case was that Maynard's attorneys were awarded attorneys fees from the State of New Hampshire. New Hampshire refused to pay so the attorneys got a writ of execution, walked into a state liquor store, gave the writ to the clerk and demanded $21,000 in cash. The New Hampshire Attorney General, weird little dude named David Souter, ponies up the cash a few days later.

@JamesMichaelCurley: Interesting, but does it apply to vanity plates? It seems like two different, though related, issues to me. Then again, I'm not a lawyer.

@1974: Same thing in New Hampshire. It's freaky.

I'd have to pay $50 to get one in Texas, and mine would just say "HUFR4ID".

I don't get this. We had a local gentleman who was/is president of the American Atheists who tried to get the plate "ATHEST" and was refused by the DMV. I was born and raised and presently live in the Shenandoah Valley of Ole Virginny, and when you figure every Protestant denomination around here is fundamentalist- even the Quakers are fundamentalist, which is saying something, and my Grandma was Mennonite, which is also saying something though thank effing God she married a Methodist- the fact we have a very vocal atheist in our midst is surprising. Or then again, maybe not, if he got as sick of fundamentalism as I have and decided to say "to hell with you people, figuratively speaking." So because of the above, I'm surprised "POOFTER" made it on a plate. Would understand it if a Republican was in office (we did have Gilmore and Mr. Macaca not too long ago), since Poofterism is now a plank of the GOP platform, but we've had two Democrats in a row.

@PapaLegba: According to the Virginia create-a-plate application, ATHEST, ATHIST, and ATHEIST are all available, so they haven't been ruled out. Maybe your local gentleman should get LIAR except that appears to be taken.

@1974: GDH8ZFG and GDH8FGZ are still available.

I've always been a proponent of having the driver's cell phone number on the license plate. Then I could call up the morons and tell them to get the fuck out of the way!

Perhaps Phillips' old buddy Al Gonzales broke out in tongues over this blasphemy against Almighty Dog's plan for man? But seriously, Poofter Bear is one sexy mo-fo, and the gray and red and brown in his stache and hair are all natural. It's been a pleasure watching him become the N-A-N he is and to see over and over that those who fuck with him don't win.

Oh, and a not-so-little birdie tells me that Great White Bear has been working on his Thanksgiving turkey for over a week. Brined in herbs, spices, apple and cherry flavors. Kick ass against the DMV and make a Top Chef his bottom bitch.

@buggerman: N-A-N?

Ha! M-A-N

@Gunner: This did happen a while back- you can tell because then you only had the option of 6 letters and not 7. I'm talking a decade or so... my memory does have a long reach. Hence, the LIAR thing was a bit much, but I don't flame people. Christian charity, I reckon?

I'm brand new to this stuff so may have missed it but did NO ONE here notice that he says the new manager for Special Plates actually called Mr. POOFTER to 'back down' and 'ORALLY declare the issue closed?' Hmmm...is that more of that secret homo code or somethin'? Just sayin'...

@Gunner: Maybe your local gentleman should get LIAR except that appears to be taken.

For some reason, the above statement stuck in my craw. Since it implies I am a liar, I feel compelled to refute the accusation-
The below site requires you to pay, but calling a person a liar can prove to be costly sometimes:
[www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1054408.html]
"Atheist Auto Tags Requested" The Washington Post
03/15/1991 - Atheist Auto Tags Requested - Get articles from 3,000 newspapers, magazines and journals at HighBeam.com

I was wrong in that it was two and a half decades, not the decade I mentioned about. Plus, the gentleman, Arnold Via, was a board member of American Atheists not president. The president was in 1991 Madalyn Murray-O'Hare. Never said I wuz perfect.

The below article, in which I copied a paragraph since your research skills appear to be affected by ADHD, is about a similar controversy in Florida:
[www.atheists.org]
In 1991, officials with the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles refused to issue "ATHEIST" plates to Atheist and First Amendment activist Arnold Via. The state reversed its decision after legal pressure. The content of plates remains an incendiary issue, though if they bear controversial messages. In 1993, the DMV canceled the plates of a Northern Virginia man who had tags declaring "GOVTSUX." A woman had her plates revoked because they spelled "HAISSEM," or "Messiah" backwards. Religious legal groups have gotten involved in disputes over plates referring to biblical phrases such as "ROMANS5."

The paragraph above shows Virginia has been uptight and anal about the plate thing for a long time... the DMV has to balance their appreciation of the shitload of money they make on vanity plates, which, to confirm 1974's point, Virginia happens to be the state with the most options for vanity plates hence they have have the largest number of them bolted to cars, against their anal retentiveness and propensity to be offended about such things as First Amendment rights. I cannot convey to you folks how floored I am about the POOFTER victory that occurred- maybe David Phillips has won a battle for all us Virginians' Constitutional rights and freedom. Granted, it ain't Brown v. Board, but nevertheless...

And Mr. Gunner, the fact that, "according to the Virginia create-a-plate application, ATHEST, ATHIST, and ATHEIST are all available" actually goes to prove my point on it's face since they are available and the DMV is probably still reluctant to approve them. But a subtle extension in logic has proven to not be your strong suit.

Basically, if your going to come at me with an argument you need to do a hell of a lot more research than a 5 minute glance at a "create-a-plate" website. Makes me wonder if you were part of the team that researched and found proof of WMDs in Iraq, since they didn't seem to look real hard either. I could've told folks that Saddam's nuclear ambitions were pretty much halted after the Israeli Air Force took out the breeder reactor he was building (with the help of the French) in a raid with their F-16's. Now I'm wondering, Mr. Gunner, if you will go quickly to look and come back and tell me that the Israelis weren't involved in Desert Storm or Operation Iraqi Freedom. This happened in the early '80's, and I doubt you'd go back that far, if you keep doing things as you've been doing.

Basically, a word of advice Grasshopper. Don't go into a gunfight armed only with a pea-shooter, especially if the other person is armed with something like an H&K MP-7 that you ain't aware of and who won't hesitate to spray 9mm bullets like a poofter sprays something else, figuratively speaking. That's a bit ironic, considering the name "Gunner." And just play nice, or don't play at all.

Dude, I missed all this extra, but I shall briefly respond, since nobody but you is ever likely to go back and read this:

1. The "LIAR" thing was a joke, and directed at the local gentleman, not you.

2. The paragraph you quote says, "The state reversed its decision after legal pressure," which means that your local gentleman got his plates after all.

3. Create-a-plate will tell you when a plate is available, taken, or unavailable. Something like FUCK would return "unavailable," but it's not just reserved for swear words. "37337," (hacker speak for "elite") for instance, is unavailable. So the fact that the plates I mentioned are available according to create-a-plate means that you can place an order for them. Maybe someone along the line will deny you, (unlikely, since they have already reversed themselves on this exact issue once) but they have not been ruled out like FUCK and 37337.