Would move to ID if they had a plate that said "Guess I'm Just a Spudboy"
― WilliamC, Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
iirc the dc license plate was approved by clinton on his way out in 99 as a fuck you to bush and the gop
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
he put those plates on the presidential motorcade iirc, Bush switched them back
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
to the "Celebrate and Discover" ones
Picturing an anthropomorphized Idaho with hands in pockets, kicking the dirt, and muttering "Famous potatoes" under its breath before sighing heavily.
― Gary Mayonnaise (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Gallup is much closer again. Obama up among registered voters, Romney up among likely.
― timellison, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I know Colin Powell will be mostly despised on here, but I'm again glad of this:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/john-mccain-lashes-out-at-colin-powell-after-obama-endorsement.php?ref=fpb
Endorsements almost always mean nothing. But I think Kennedy's was important in '08, and Powell's too, coming right near the end. This year's won't mean as much, but in a real close election, it may make a tiny sliver of difference.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
And if it infuriates John McCain, all the better.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I think that John McCain ought to commit sepuku on the Capitol steps as a protest against Colin Powell's endorsement.
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think his arms can accomplish that
― iatee, Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
gop talking point is to call o's foreign policy 'feckless' - does this test well amongst angry white people? is it dog whistling at all or am I seeing something thats not there?
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
it just sounds a little like you're saying "fuck" and that makes angry people happy
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
he has no more fecks to give
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
does this test well amongst angry white people?
It's a good question and I wouldn't be sure that it does. It's not like the economic issue, where people are holding on to conservative ideology and convinced that Obama is taxing them to the hilt. I haven't seen a lot of people angry about the fact that we haven't been more aggressive about Syria or Iran.
― timellison, Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
mccain is quietly appealing to clash fans, fits with his romney can't fail slogan
― space dokken (Edward III), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
mccain was speaking in code to people who think that "feckless" means "dickless".
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
had a nightmare last night in which I was watching a tv station that was broadcasting romney's state-by-state wins on election night
― 乒乓, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
like I woke up and was like, oh, election day is still a week and a half away
― 乒乓, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
haha i had that one too the other night.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
If we're going to have a Republican candidate, it's better that we have Establishment Romneys and "Fag" McQuains. I have a neighbor who is all "angry white guy with a gun" that he is awfully quiet about Romney. I hear that Massachusetts makes people gay.
Don't a lot of those scary white people hate establishment types?
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka I Hate Huckabees (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
smart take
― max, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Oklahoma still has the best license plates. There's this one:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1402/1186749937_d556712d25.jpg
which is a classic, but there's also this one now, apparently:
http://oklahoma4h.okstate.edu/aitc/images/cartag.jpg
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
ha
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Very similar to this horrible thing that we have in Ohio:
http://publicsafety.ohio.gov/img/beautiful_ohio_plate.png
Now we're about to get this, which is the license plate equivalent of those car with 50 bumper stickers:
http://publicsafety.ohio.gov/img/ohio_pride_plate.png
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Great layout, too - just to the right of the first set of digits you get
LAKEERIEGLACIAOCKINGUTUGEADUSE
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
that is boss
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
I would gladly take that new Ohio plate over this:
http://www.whitecounty.net/tc/images/pics/georgia-license-plate.jpg
That's the new default plate for Georgia, where we've gone from not being as tacky as all our neighbors to out-tackying them fiftyfold.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Georgia plate looks like it should emit the smell of old lady perfume.
― joygoat, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
License plates turned into wallpaper so gradually I didn't even notice.
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
i think this one is pretty f rad
http://www.doyletics.com/images/64woody.jpg
i kind of like the peaches one, it reminds me of old orange crate art or something
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Big Bear. Fall apples. German Village. Brick. Voting Ohioans must outnumber voting Floridans.
― youn, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
fruit crate art
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
They actually held a design contest, which was voted on by the public. And yes, an old lady designed the winner.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but come on a licence plate that mentions death, you got to give up the props
No one does it better than Nevada though
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/43/79071893_f294f73c76.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
h8 old ladies!
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Suspect's license plate reads '20150 A E=MC2'"
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-the-tea-partys-drubbing-in-2012/2012/10/24/185416ea-1e0e-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nevada FTW
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
(sorry -- electoral votes -- duh)
― youn, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
The worst plates are the ones that feature a URL.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
still classy:
http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Hawaii/hi2002.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
wow the nevada mushroom cloud one, a+
'you'll get a bang out of nevada!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
it does radiate a certain charm
― dell (del), Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Not to derail the conversation from license plates, but this via my wife's friend:
The woman that cleans my house and watches the kids just got her US citizenship yesterday. It's been a LONG time coming, years and years she has been trying. She was (until yesterday!) a legal resident, pays her taxes, etc, etc. She was finally able to take the test last week, then told it would be 3 months until she was sworn in. Then all of a sudden they told her to come weds. She went and there were almost 4000 people being sworn in, given voter registrations cards, a video message from Obama, then a song with video of the country about our country and thanking the troops who have died for our freedom. Apparently there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Just in time to vote...
Just in time to vote...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
"mccain keeps calling me feckless, and he's half right...when it comes to john mccain i don't have a feck to give." - one of the puns that would kill my political career
― da croupier, Thursday, 25 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
OMG! They want new citizens to vote IN AN ELECTION YEAR!
― Aimless, Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
not just any citizens, but people who CLEAN HOUSES
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Josh, great story!
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I would like to see that Obama video tbh, could make me sentimental
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 25 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link