From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > "How many people recognize the day isn't at all clear."   
    > Not me, anyway.   
      
   Not me.   
      
    > Crystal briefly discusses prohibitions on words not permitted on   
    > personalized ("vanity") plates. There have been a couple of cases here   
    > recently -- one involving "NUTSAX" and one, amazingly, "KAREN". The latter   
    > was actually the car owner's name, but since the name "Karen" has been   
    > weaponized to denote a particular type of annoying person, someone felt   
    > obliged to complain that it was offensive -- actually a stereotypically   
    > "Karen"ish thing to do. The NZ Transport Agency, who deal with these   
    > matters, apparently have no linguistic clues at all, judging by the fact   
    > that they took this seriously even for a minute.   
      
   I’m fully in favour of vanity licence (number) plates, as long as they are   
   more   
   expensive than normal licence plates. They’re like patents, a revenue source   
   for the government that those paying for them are happy to pay. The exact   
   opposite of taxation.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)