NO, not the fact that Palm Beach County has once again messed up an election tabulation (a number of electronic data cartridges in UNUSED touch-screen ballot machines were AWOL).

The Florida DMV has asked a Gainesville resident (UF electricial engineering prof) to return his personalized license plate, based on the receipt of a letter of complaint signed by 10 people.

The letter mentioned that "medical references and slang dictionaries may have been used in making the deterimation".

What was on the plate??? ATHEIST


Hey, at least it's better than certain Florida yay-hoo legislators (party isn't important) who are using the rationale of "cutting off potential terrorist access" to submit laws to cut off public access to such records as complaints against medical doctors and city-owned utility budgets........

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[ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: Wurm ]

Mayor Carolyn Risher has banned Satan from Inglis, Florida.

So why can't they get rid of hanging chads?

[quote]Originally posted by Wurm:
The Florida DMV has asked a Gainesville resident (UF electricial engineering prof) to return his personalized license plate, based on the receipt of a letter of complaint signed by 10 people.

What was on the plate??? ATHEIST

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Someone in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia had the license plate ATHEIST about twenty years ago. It too was recalled and banned after a complaint or two were received. Been there; done that.

Ah, but here in FL you can get a specialty license plate in that says "Choose Life". As long as your message fits the mainstream, conservative, Christian values of our fearless leaders, you're ok.

Update...they've temporarily halted the recall of the ATHEIST license plate. They've decided to form a committee to look at all potentially "offensive" plates on a case by case basis. You can read all about it:

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/15/TampaBay...wins_repr.shtml

Wurm...I always thought our fair state was shaped like a gun...with Tampa Bay (appropriately) as the trigger.

[ March 15, 2002: Message edited by: raysnjays ]

[quote]Originally posted by sportinlife:
Mayor Carolyn Risher has banned Satan from Inglis, Florida.

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I saw this business this morning as Anne Curry was speaking with her; I have to admire her convictions because she holds them near and dear, but I was spooked by the idea that she is seeing things in such a narrow minded way. BTW, I thought Anne handled it nicely -- asking the woman if she was an idiot without doing so directly. CRazy, man.

[quote]Originally posted by sportinlife:
Mayor Carolyn Risher has banned Satan from Inglis, Florida.

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As a Christian I think that woman is nuts. What an absurd thing to do - gives all christians a bad name.

"Satan banning mayor a hot item"

"I'm going to encourage all elected officials to take a stand and see if we can get our nation back to God, where it is supposed to be."

Think she'll be invited to Washington? (Joke)

[ March 16, 2002: Message edited by: redsoxbreath ]

Christian=nuts. Hmmmmmm

I left the South for a reason. No one believed me (or even understood the reference) when I said coliseums and lions needed to be brought back.

And my favorite saying has always been while watching the Grammy's. As the camera pans to an unhappy rapper that has just lost an award, I scream "Where's your God nowwwww?"
You are free to use this with boxers on the losing end, psycho-zealot athletes (like Kurt Warner and that Cloris Leachman she-man puppet he calls a wife), etc.

[quote]Originally posted by AU Tiger in LA:
psycho-zealot athletes (like Kurt Warner and that Cloris Leachman she-man puppet he calls a wife)

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Oooo...bitter, bitter, bitter. Do I detect sour grapes here?

It has been one of life's great disappointments for me to find out some of the athletes I'm most, um, taken with turn out to be religious zealots (like Herbert Perry and, yes, Kurt Warner). Just ruins the fantasy, which of course is all it was in the first place.

On the progressive side, here in Flori-DUH...the city of St. Petersburg recently added sexual orientation to its human rights ordinance. The interesting thing is that the only real wrangling over it was whether or not to include transgendered people (which, in the end, they did not). Protecting "plain old" gays and lesbians was hardly an issue. This is a big change from the dog fight that went on when this was done in Tampa (just across the bay) a decade ago. So there is hope. But then there's Inglis...