Tuesday, May 24, 2005

VANITY, VANITY, ALL IS VANITY

A black 2002 Audi tooling around Seattle's streets has a vanity license plate that appears to have gotten in under the radar of the state licensing police.

The inscription, C9H13N, is the chemical compound for methamphetamine — not that the general public would know that.

The plate appears to violate state law that bans vanity plates making reference to alcohol or illegal substances.

Last night there was a car parked in my neighborhood bearing the vanity plate HEATHEN. Which is fine, anyone is free to be a heathen (although advertising the fact may be redundant), but what exactly are the standards? My guess is that BIBLEBOY would not get past security. NO GOD, okay, personal freedom of expression. KNOW GOD, denied, religious proselytizing. A curious interpretation of what Thomas Jefferson and friends had in mind.

Personally I can't complain. I had IS.40:8 on my convertible in North Carolina.

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