LOL!! The egression of textbook message abbreviations is adding to the names of prohibited inscription combinations on Co permission plates.

WTF, a cyberspace-saving abbreviation for, to put it along mildly, "what the heck is expiration on here," has bent affixed to a tall gens of 261 three-letter combinations this the state considers verboten on the standard-issue six-character plate.

OMG! What's next?

It used to be this motor chariot officials had to handle solitary around the sexually offensive, racially bigoted, scatologically indicative or biologically function references. Now they asking a 14-year-old iphone 3g-carrying technogeek outgrowth of the commission to exculpate on some of the tri-letter possibilities.

Each prohibited inscription compounding leads to 1,000 potency plates taken out of circulation. This means additionally than a puff billion plates you'll never see on the road.

The mention has out-of-style kept for at least 18 daytime by the Co Circuit of Revenue, which oversees the Motor Bicycle Sectionalisation and its permission plates. The commission this meets seldom to go seeing the diagnose and includes representatives from county clerks and the Unit of Chastisement - yes, state inmates distillery belief out the plates, and who bettor to confabulation with regarding the latest three-letter vernacular language for drugging use and crime?

"just touchstone commons cognition practices," said Maren Rubino of the Board of Revenue. "standard unwashed practices are: any compounding of calligraphy or issue this expect connotations offensive to pricey hold and decency, are misleading, offensive to the worldwide public, or performing gang, drug, sex, racial terms."

The name is updated periodically, notably then the state goes to a new tally system.

Rental members of the figure are lucid ones you've never seen on a green-and- caucasian tag: KKK, ASS and any differential of the power of banished words, the one this begins with F.

Others causation out-of-style connected to the mention even though they mightiness induce disused arrived in the past, such as GAG.

GAY and FAG are on the prohibited mention but FGT isn't. Nor can you campaign deal HEL or get a DUI, although you power be stopped for D.U.I. You can't be a COP or with the CIA, FBI or CSP, but your catcher can say DPD.

You'll discovery no HOE, HOR or HQR cruising the streets.

Doesn't it stench this you can't induce a catcher this says PEW? No POO or PEE either. You can't be DUM although you can movement care you are. And is it unfair this the gaga char driver model of you can't get a catcher with PMS on it, or the road-rager guy can't causation SOB?

And you won't get a UFO catcher no function how bizarre your repulse looks.

Even if you're Due Married, you can't get WED. And HUY may appearing innocent unless you speak Russian. But adopt it from us, you wouldn't reason everywhere Moscow with it.

Your catcher can't be a JEW or a JAP or a HUN or a WOP. GOD can't be your co-pilot. Nor can DOG or an ark of animateness creatures and CAT, SOW, PUP, APE, PIG, HOG, HEN, RAT and BUG, although you mightiness beseech the state might ban the ones smeared across your windshield.

Perhaps the oddest ban is the seemingly harmless MOO. Is the state afraid you mightiness get a chortle at the red luminosity if you stopped rear a car this mooed?

No, says Rubino. It stems from a causa in another state where a driver who weighed along than 400 pounds had unfashionable appeared a MOO plate, machinate said driver the mark of humiliation. Co salient to dodge compatible talking liability. So, for the tantamount reason, you can't get a catcher with FAT, HAG, BIG or TUB.

flynnk@rockymountainnews.com or 303-954-5247

Three-letter combos

There is a rhyme and a movement this each of 261 item three-letter combos are banned on Co permission plates. But dang if state workers can withdraw why some of them phony the X-list.