Here's Robert's post with his address. Can't wait to see what he makes this time! One inspiring guy! Here is a link that might be useful: Robert's post

garage sales, maybe

I too have the "burn at the stake" one. I must have forty or so accumulated over time (and I'm talking about around 8 years) in an envelope in my glove compartment. People give me stickers fairly often - I keep the ones I like best and pass along others - and they're not exactly expensive investments. The ones from the Northern Sun catalog are the priciest ones I ever buy at $2. Allison, although there is a risk of theft, you can mount a regular sticker on the very thin magnetic sheets from any craft store. Barb, the dragons sticker is a spinoff of the line from one of the Lord of the Rings books - "do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger". I picked that one up in a science fiction bookstore. (One of my dream bumper stickers would read: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. -- JRR Tolkien No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. -- Steven Brust) I'll grant that there are many bumper stickers out there that make me wish I had a rocket launcher mounted on the hood of my car - usually expressing some kind of hate-filled, couldn't-pry-that-closed-mind-open-with-the-Jaws-of-Life vileness - but I would never even consider defacing someone else's property no matter how much they p!$$ed me off. I saw one today that made me rather sad: "War does not define who is right. It only defines who is left." (As in left alive.) So true, and I wish it weren't. However, I don't care to put any kind of advertising stickers on my car, just like I don't wear clothes with brand or store names splashed across them. (I do like to wear kooky t-shirts, I'll admit it, because I think it's fun to make people do a double-take. My favorite is worn to tatters - reads "give me that old-time religion" with a drawing of people dancing around Stonehenge. LOL) I figure if a business wants me or my car to be a billboard they can dang well pay me for it.

I think it's just a rotation thing and no one was thinking when the plate ended up at the place where they give out the plates. In Kansas, there were some standard plates that had a combination of letters/numbers that were offensive to Asian Americans. Some Asian American saw the Kansas car in California with that plate on it, was offended by it and contacted the state. It was a big hullabaloo but the people with that car got a new plate. I can't remember what it was that was offensive but no one in Kansas thought it was offensive. I do know our license departments here in our state do look at the request for all "vanity" plates to make sure that there is nothing offensive about them. Our local office has denied the use of some requests because of that. EXCEPT once a plate was requested and the person at our office sent it in, the state issued it and when it came back to the tag office, the head person saw it, realized what they were doing, called Topeka who was totally ignorant of another meaning for those letters and numbers which was why it was issued and got the plate stopped.