Would you like freedom fries with that?

It looks like the powers that be in my home state finally realized you can’t get your license plate to spell “I’m gonna break my boot off in Osama’s ass” with only seven letters. Instead, they’re issuing license plates that are so self-righteously patriotic that it almost seems like a bad attempt to jump start the 2001-2002 retro wave early.


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Gotta love the use of desert-style digital camouflage. A nice bit of “Iraq is related to 9-11″ subtlety to undercut the in-your-face message of the rest of the design. It’s too bad they couldn’t find room to include a yellow ribbon or a paint-by-numbers version of George Bush praying.


posted by greg on August 7, 2007 @ 5:38 pm

10 comments »

  1. Wow. Just Wow.

    BTW, how much extra does OK charge for these plates? I would assume the money is going toward supplementing the revenue lost to the states paying for said war, right?

    Comment by Dave — August 7, 2007 @ 8:40 pm

  2. It looks to me like they forgot the tear coming out of the eagle’s eye. Oh, and an American flag should be somewhere in the mix, shouldn’t it?

    I guess that would have been too busy, though.

    Comment by josephdietrich — August 8, 2007 @ 12:09 am

  3. As a current resident of your former state, let me just say this:

    Blorch.

    Come back for a visit some time and marvel at the number of poorly spelled 9/11 tributes and declarations about George W. Bush’s greatness.

    Comment by Dr. Pants — August 8, 2007 @ 8:31 am

  4. Why can’t we have a truly commemorative Oklahoma licence plate featuring Will Rogers, Woody Guthrie, Jim Thorpe, or Sequoia?

    Comment by dAnimal — August 8, 2007 @ 10:15 am

  5. This form says the proceeds from sales of the plate go to the “45th Infantry Division Museum Fund”. Far be it from me to question the valiant efforts of the 45th Infantry Division Museum in the Global War on Terror, but aren’t there some wounded vets in OK who could maybe use a new air conditioner for the mobile home, or something?

    And if I lived in Oklahoma (shudder) I’d order one with “STOPTHE” as my vanity plate message.

    Comment by SteveB — August 8, 2007 @ 10:45 am

  6. I LOVE museums! Oklahoma should have a Museum license plate! That gives money to the VA!

    Comment by Joe — August 8, 2007 @ 4:32 pm

  7. The good people of this state elected Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, a bunch of times! Nuff said?

    Comment by Greg's liberal mom in Oklahoma — August 8, 2007 @ 7:09 pm

  8. Yet another reason to be glad that I managed to escape the suck.

    Comment by Armagh444 — August 8, 2007 @ 11:49 pm

  9. Holy Crap! Which is worse—It’s assault on aethstetics or on morality?

    Good answer SteveB.

    We don’t have anything QUITE as bad as that in Michigan, but I recently checked and this was available…

    Comment by Mr Furious — August 9, 2007 @ 9:02 am

  10. 5 letter max? how unfun is that?

    you cant even put “Stop the” or “Facist”

    I guess “Osama” fits…as does “WWJD”

    Comment by Patman — August 16, 2007 @ 10:32 pm

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