[$tinkle]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-merlot-plate,0,6981825.story

SALT LAKE CITY -- Merlot can be a variety of grape or a type of red wine, but not an acceptable personalized license plate in the state of Utah.

Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the license plate reading "merlot" for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.

Six or seven-letter words like liquor or whiskey probably wouldn't make it through the state screening process before the plates are issued. But merlot did and Eurick was fine until an anonymous caller told the state that merlot was also an alcoholic beverage.

i wonder if they'll allow:
BIG LUV
MILF X4
CAFEEN

 

[moff_quigley]

Read about that in the paper today. Kinda funny. I wonder if Utah has outlawed this t-shirt:

I've considered getting one and going for a walk around Zion (Independence, MO).

 

[Secret Squirrel]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-merlot-plate,0,6981825.story

SALT LAKE CITY -- Merlot can be a variety of grape or a type of red wine, but not an acceptable personalized license plate in the state of Utah.

Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the license plate reading "merlot" for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow words of intoxicant to be used on vanity plates.

Six or seven-letter words like liquor or whiskey probably wouldn't make it through the state screening process before the plates are issued. But merlot did and Eurick was fine until an anonymous caller told the state that merlot was also an alcoholic beverage.

i wonder if they'll allow:
BIG LUV
MILF X4
CAFEEN

If the state didn't initially realize that "merlot" was an alcoholic beverage then he deserves to continue to get away with it....

I once saw a license plate here in WA that said: "FUQUARI"

Apparently, it got pulled after the person at the DOL that issued it, was talking to a friend trying to find their house. During the call, the friend in the car exclaimed to the passenger, "Where the f*ck are we??!?!" It was pulled the next day.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Read about that in the paper today. Kinda funny. I wonder if Utah has outlawed this t-shirt:

I've considered getting one and going for a walk around Zion (Independence, MO).

I seriously considered having a shirt made before I went to the Deer Valley national that read on the front: "Timothy Leary: Father, Son, Holy Ghost." And on the back: "Oh...wait...that's LSD."