Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.4 $; site uiucme Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucme!authorplaceholder From: keith@uiucme.uiucme Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Number plates and other "useful" ut Message-ID: <500004@uiucme> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 09:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucme.500004 Posted: Mon Jul 1 09:55:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:09:41 EDT References: <282@kontron.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:kontron.UUCP:-28200:uiucme:500004:000:731 Nf-From: uiucme.uiucme!keith Jul 1 08:55:00 1985 I recall reading several years ago, when I lived in New England (you know, in between New York and Boston), the president of Heublen made a customized license plate request to the state of Conneticut, which he thought would be good, corporate-oriented advertising. DMV (or whatever they called themselves) declined the opportunity to honor his request: his car: wife's car: +----------+ +----------+ | C O C K | | T A I L | +----------+ +----------+ I suppose he saw his cars as always in the driveway, not going down the turnpike. Keith U of Ill Mech Eng uiucdcs!uiucme!keith "On your way out, stop by the library and pick out a good hallucination"