It took 11 years for Virginia to figure out what "poofter" means.

[ohiosmith]

A Vehicle for Self-Expression? Not on These Roads.

By Marc Fisher
Sunday, November 4, 2007; Page C01

For 11 years, over nearly 200,000 miles, with the blessing of the state of Virginia, David Phillips has driven his Tracker with the "POOFTER" license plate, and nobody has complained -- not even when he parked at the British Embassy, where everybody knows "poofter" is British slang for a gay man.

"It's always a rolling good laugh for them," says Phillips, who is gay and chose his tags' message because "it's just an amusing word that I self-identify with."

David Phillips was told to return his license plate, which reads "POOFTER," after the special plates office deemed it "socially, racially or ethnically offensive or disparaging." (By Richard A. Lipski -- The Washington Post)

The commonwealth of Virginia is not amused. It gave Phillips his vanity plates in error, Carolyn Easley, coordinator of the special license plates office, wrote in a recent letter. "You may have grown fond of your personalized plates," but they are "socially, racially or ethnically offensive or disparaging" and "you must return them." There was no explanation for why it took Virginia 11 years to figure out what "poofter" means.

They'll have to pry those plates from Phillips's cold dead hands, or something like that. The 42-year-old Arlington County resident, who works as a computer consultant, says he's not sending back the tags, even if the state has generously provided a prepaid envelope for that purpose.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301111.html

[madinmaryland]

1. There was something floating around about Larry Craig's involvement

in this.

:shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

6. Phillips maintains he had a tryst with Craig some years ago. n/t

[Va Lefty]

2. Doesn't surprise me

One of my co-workers has a Virginia plate that reads NOMOMEX. It was approved by the DMV. He thought it was inordinately funny, until he had his taillight broken, his truck keyed and toothpicks jammed into his locks. Oh, he's an asshole if there was any doubt. Sometimes it's easy to believe in Karma.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Right, I just want to remind you of the Virginia DMV rules

Rule one: NO POOFTAHS!

Rule two: No employee of the Virginia DMV is to maltreat the coloreds in any way... if there's anybody watchin'.

Rule three: NO POOFTAHS!

Rule four: Now, this year, I don't want to catch anybody at their desk not drinkin'.

Rule five: NO POOFTAHS!

Rule six: There is NO rule six.

Rule seven: NO POOFTAHS!

That concludes the readin' of the rules; Bruce.


This here is the rebel; it's the emblem of our land. You can stick it on your pickup, you can wave it with your hand.

A-MEN!

[Va Lefty]

4. Excellent!

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could drink you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hagel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

[matcom]

5. what do you expect?

Midlo and Underpants BOTH inhabit that cesspool!

:hide:

[sasquatch]

9. Feeding the kids winecoolers too!

:hide:

[devilgrrl]

7. Vanity plates are so narcissistic, no matter who has them.

:eyes:

[WinkyDink]

8. Was it the poofter wot croaked in Venice?

"Monty Python". :)