Monday, June 11th, 2007...8:30 am
The Virginia DMV is anti-Semitic
Think I’m exaggerating? Maybe I am. But the state DMV’s online personalized license plate generator sure has some issues with the Chosen People.
Despite providing a variety of plate categories — military, university, special interest — and the ability to type in whatever you’d like on your license plate, Virginia won’t let me type in the word Jew.
Or Arjewtino. Or Arjwtino. Or Jewcy.
Of course, being the resourceful blogger that I am, I found a way around the commonwealth’s fascist automobile identification system:
Click to enlarge.
Try your own. If you create one, send it to me at arjewtino@gmail.com as a jpg and I’ll post it here.
If anyone is having trouble converting your plates to jpg or gif files, e-mail me and tell me what category you chose and what the plate says and I’ll make it for you.
Thanks to Foxymoron for the link.
Click on any of the plates below and you can conduct your very own mini-slideshow.
From I-66:
From Average Jane:
From Brunch Bird:
From INPY:
From Horizontal:
From Magic Jewball:
From Baby Bien:
From Barbaro:
From Gen:
From Freckled K:
From Life of Red:
From Static Cling:
From Mandy:
22 Comments
June 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am
even if they let you put “jew” in it you still couldn’t have arjewtino because its 9 letters and the most you can have is 7.
Certain categories allow for more characters than others.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:44 am
oooh that was fun. First I tried “phucku” and apparrently that was not allowed. But “yphucu” (why, fuck you!) easily went through.
Go ahead and send it: arjewtino@gmail.com.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Virginia: The land of the vanity plate. At least they can be proud of something.
Well, something besides I-66 (which they are already clearly proud of) because he’s just so damn crafty. CRAFTY!
Yup, he’s a clever one, that former blogger.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I’m still blogging!
These plates are cool, but they have nothing on the best plate ever that actually exists.
That’s why it wasn’t available!
June 11th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Best. Post. Ever.
My colleagues at the meeting I’m attending are wondering why I’m snorting here at the cyber cafe. But I don’t think they’d get it.
Cybercafe? Where do you get your work done, Seattle? Send yours in, Carrie.
Ah, Philadelphia, I see.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I love that this is the first thing you do when you get to work on a Monday. It is a Monday, isn’t it?
But, um, don’t you live in MD? No fun times with the Maryland DMV?
I am a loyal blogger who is here to serve my readers. Actually, I wrote this one on Friday and just published it today.
I didn’t even check Maryland’s site; this site was sent to me by my friend Foxymoron.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Oooh. Ducks unlimited is begging for “AFLAC”
June 11th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
You should make a huge deal out of this. Maybe then they’ll change it.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Gen - except that it totally worked for me! Maybe the DMV is sexist, too…
June 11th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
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June 11th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I can’t get it to save the image - it only saves one letter. What am I doing wrong?
Please email me for hilarious submissions..
June 11th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Excellent post! I’m nowhere near as witty as the likes of you and the other contributors, but I’m a lover of wit.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Argh, stupid typo and now it’s in a trackback. How humiliating. I corrected it on my end.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
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June 11th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
utter hilarity…i love it
June 12th, 2007 at 10:05 am
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June 12th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I really like Red’s weed one. That made me “lol”.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:07 am
AJ- haha maybe they just don’t like ArJew in particular. They know his adgenda! It’s a CONSPIRACY!! ^^
June 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Hey, if a guy named Norman Finkelstein is antisemetic I guess everyone is.
We should all thank DePaul University.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
. . . or another Virginia vanity plate that’s particularly infamous around Richmond.
And I thought some of the joke ones we were able to create online could never get past the DMV censors.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Mmm, disgusting allegiance to a group identity! BORGS ‘R US.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I know it’s been a long while since this post, but if you do the “Drive Smart” one, you can type in dr1nk (that’s a one), which is moderately entertaining.
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