On 30 Mar 2010 07:49:57 -0700, leful...@sbcglobal.net (Lloyd Fuller) wrote:
>When I was at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa in the early 1970s, the APL >professor had been fighting for a couple of years to get "APL" as his plate. >The review board kept denying him. Even though he explained what it meant, >they KNEW that it had to really be something dirty. I don't know if he ever >got the plate that he wanted. DENVER (AP) Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her love of tofu by picking the letters for her car's license plate. But her tofu fondness ran into a snafu at the Division of Motor Vehicles, which blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane. Her suggestion for the plate on her Suzuki: "ILVTOFU." Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch said the letters could be misinterpreted. Coffman-Lee, 38, said tofu is a staple of her family's diet because they are vegan and that the DMV misinterpreted her message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
