29 thoughts on “Spot the message!”

  2. Err, yes, even at this hour!
    But it’s cute, particularly impressive that you can do that and have the state of origin of the tags by alphabetical order too. Where did you find it?

  4. Well, we’ve pretty much hosed that whole

    N SURE DOME ESTIK TRAN KWILI T

    thing, now haven’t we?

  5. I miss the days when the states had distinctive license plates, and you could tell what state a car was from just by the colors. Now there are so many designs for each state that you have to be close enough to read the state name to tell where it’s from.

    1. If you are close enough in Iowa, you also know what county. I’m not sure why they do this but maybe so you will know when there is a foreigner in town. With an excessive 99 counties, you often never heard of it.

      1. So true. I grew up in Iowa; people often told me they were from somewhere in the western counties that I’d never heard of. It’s a “State of Minds” after all (remember that one?)

        I’m in Alaska now, and we have a relative handful of enormous boroughs (equivalent to counties).

  6. Either

    [Preamble of US Constitution]

    or

    “We the peepul … form a more purrfec …”

    I prefer the LOLcat version.

  8. I am always amazed that many will fork over additional money for the personalized plates. Most states stay with the same plate for about 4 or 5 years so maybe they think it worthwhile.

    Use to be something for prisoners to do but I don’t know if any still do it in the prisons.

        1. According to the article, the DMV told him the plate seemed to reference oral sex on minors. I wonder how long it took them to cone up with that interpretation.

  10. Here’s some interesting info about Mike Wilkins, the artist who created that:

    “Born in North Carolina. Best known as a conceptual artist who celebrated the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution by requesting personalized license plates from all fifty states to form its preamble.”

    1. Just something I noticed…Connecticut refers to itself as the Constitution State? Apparently they claim this because of a document going back to the 1630s called the Fundamental Orders. This was a list of laws written up by a lawyer, maybe the only one in the state then. Anyway they claim this was the first Constitution like document in the colonies. A big stretch if there ever was one.

  12. Go to youtube and watch the classic Schoolhouse Rock We the People short video from 1976. I leave it for the reader to find the short video on the youtube search engine since it is verboten to post embedded videos at WEIT.

  13. I seemed to have more trouble with this than most people– Jerry got it right away. Perhaps because I looked at it at eye level, I didn’t start looking at the top left, and noticed, for example, that NY had “LIBBER”, which was a mildly derogatory term for a feminist in the 70s (from “women’s liberation”), thus missing the forest for the trees!

    Oh, and it is at the Smithsonian’s American art museum, as already noted above.

    GCM

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