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This is a common phrase among knitters. Those of us who knit socks can either knit them "top down" or "toe up". A friend of mine writes in his blog that he is trying to get a vanity license plate that says "TOE UP" but the censors in the license bureau has ruled that it is a varient of "tore up" according to the Urban Dictionary. Even his appeal to the license bureau hasn't worked. I know we've discussed the unreliability of that source many times. What examples do you all have of how that source isn't true? ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | ||
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Try looking up "penguin". Here are some of the "definitions"
I don't need to go on surely. They do though for another sixty two definitions of utter b*******s You mean there are people who take this crap seriously enough to cite it as a reference source? Ye Gods. The world is in a worse state than I thought. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Some more words plucked from the air at random as "defined" on the urban dictionary. armchair
tree
radio
silence
Just tell them to pick ANY word at random. Works every time. The only thing that the Urban Dictionary defines accurately is bullshit. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I assume that the license bureau is a government department and as such is run by the government, using your money. Which means it works for you and you, through the electoral process, select those who ultimately choose its employees. So get in touch with your government representative (I have an MP, I believe you have Senators) and tell them to extract their digits and get this incompetent nonsense sorted out! Richard English | |||
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At least that is slightly amusing. Not that it proves anything. Why doesn't this friend add his own definition to the UD? He could then point to that as the meaning ... Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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license bureau Hmm, they tend to talk funny in the Midwest. I've always gone to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) to get a driver's license or license plates. (They do make you stand in (or on) line for a long time, though since the Web, one can make an appointment and shorten that queuing experience.) Since vanity plates are some kind of marketing gimmick—they cost extra and I've never bought one—I could care less [sic] whether the DMV wants to control the wording of same. The solution is to simply get rid of vanity plates, and let people read hidden messages from the Other in random series of letters and digits. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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When my Chinese friend in Taiwan acquired his Porsche (model 911) back in the year 2000 he was issued a run-of-the-mill license plate bearing the number 0911-NY. For a couple of reasons it looks like a "vanity plate," but he says it was just luck. | |||
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For a couple of reasons it looks like a "vanity plate," but he says it was just luck. I think, if I ever suffered myself to buy a vanity plate, it would be a random, seemingly real-looking number. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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A few hundred years ago California had no vanity plates and license numbers had the format [NNN CCC] where N was a digit and C was a letter. Talk show host Johnny Carson was issued [360 GUY] or, as Ed McMahon put it, "All-Around Guy". | |||
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Excellent suggestions, comments and advice. Please keep them coming! I've alerted my friend to this thread (again). I wonder if he'll join up and post? ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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