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New Jersey DMV Future-Proofs Against Lexeme Evolvement
A 49-year-old New Jersey woman is maybe losing the right to her license plate, which reads "BIOCH," because that is how you spell "bitch" with a Trenton [Tren'-en] accent. Her new license plate reads "WHAEVER," which is awesome. But really the most fabulous part of this wondrous story is the explanation from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. Yes: "language is ever changing and evolving, especially in pop-culture. While a word may mean nothing today, it could have some sort of negative connotation years later."
I missed the evolutionary change that put a hyphen in pop-culture.
It's like T. Herman Zweibel is copyediting for the DMV.
(j/k, obvs; no one employs copyeditors anymore)
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The only way to be sure they aren't accidentally letting someone get a future-offensive license plate is to only let people get all number plates.
But… what if in the future… numbers are cusses?! Oh god!
Shut up, seven.
101010101010010101010101 you got served!
Jeez, Choire, why do you have to be such an omglol?
I have a Croatian friend who's license plate is KURAC.
*Googles* Oh….
whose
My favorite tax is the asshole tax.
(OK, I saw a VW Rabbit once with the license plate SKWEWY, that was ok.)
Jeep Pioneer plate read 3.14NEER
Who has BUKAKE?
I dream of "KTHXBYE" but France doesn't have vanity plates.
Does anyone have THEAWL? Brand loyalty!
Hershey Highway?