Oh well - I don't blame Colorado Motor Vehicles all that much. It was probably the right decision. What I'm wondering is if the woman who requested the license plate actually noticed the other interpretation of the letters she was asking for.
And this quote is from coverage of this story from Denver Westword News:
Not surprisingly, PETA has already weighed in on this shocking rejection of not-exactly-free speech (after all, you have to pay for vanity plates). "It's shocking to us that the DMV calls a vegetarian plate offensive," says spokeswoman Lindsay Rajt. "We think the DMV can do a lot of good by reconsidering its decision and allowing people to discover the joy of soy."
Hmmmm.... ILVTOFU... I hope that readers of veggie blogs would look at that plate and say "Hey! That guy loves tofu", but I suspect that the majority of the population would see it the other way, and the plate would rather be allowing people to discover the joy of f*&cking.
I mean, do you guys remember the Roger Clemens Vegan story? This is an adult multi-millionaire American who had never even heard the word vegan.
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haha, that is so funny because I totally didn't see the non-veggie message until you pointed it out--that's how far gone down the vegan path I am.
I have to admit I had to a do a lot of googling before I figured out the other meaning. I was asking my husband, "What dirty meaning could ILVTOFU possibly have"?
I did get the dirty message, but seriously, there are a couple of letters missing in that message :)
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