Risky to mention tofu
It's those last two letters that are the problem:
"A woman's love for tofu has been judged X-rated by bureaucrats who denied her permission to express her desires in public.
Denver woman Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her 4WD's number plate. Her suggestion for the plate: "ILVTOFU." But Colorado's Division of Motor Vehicles blocked her plan because they thought the combination of letters could be interpreted as profane.
Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch said: "We don't allow 'FU' because some people could read that as street language for sex." Officials meet periodically to ensure state plates stay free of letters that abbreviate gang slang, drug terms or obscene phrases.
Coffman-Lee, 38, says tofu is a staple of her family's diet because they are vegan and that the DMV misinterpreted her message.
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4 comments:
Go Denver! Or not. This is the first time I've ever seen "fu" as a stand-in for "sex"... where do people come up with these things?
She should be very grateful that the state stepped in and stopped her. Just imagine seeing a car pull into a parking space with FU on the license plate? If she is pretty, she would end up getting a lot of comments that the guys would like to FU her too. A few weeks of that and she would be suing the DMV for not catching that in her license plate and stopping her in the first place.
Mobius
She is probably not very healthy if she doesn't eat meat. Don't think that will be a problem for her.
They should have proposed an alternative: ILVSOY
It's ridiculous that this woman is raising such a stink about it. By now she should have realized that her proposed tag had an unintended possible interpretation unless she had intended that possible additional meaning in the first place.
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