nail me

[LCHIEN]

There was a story in the local paper recently about vanity license plates...

one sub-story was about plates in questionable taste. It said that a dallas nail saloon operator had plates that said "NAIL ME" for a number of years before someone complained and the TXDOT refused to renew hers for the following year.

my comments
1) seems perfectly reasonable to me given her profession.
2) If someone knew what the innuendo was surely they were not so innocent as to be offended.
3) Maybe she was a hobby woodworker on the side and was referring to her Bostich 10 ga. Framing nailer.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

If I had seen that plate I probably would have thought about woodworking or the other thought would be that she was asking to be pulled over, as in "nail me" for speeding or doing some other traffic violation.

[Uncle Cracker]

I dunno... She was probably well aware of the double entendre, and the powers-that-be have to draw the line somewhere. Better that they err to the side of caution.

[pierhogunn]

as long as she is not a raccoon, or raccoon hunter ( see another thread)

[cgallery]

Depends on what she looks like. It may have been a non-issue.

[germdoc]

I would like to know who's in charge of reviewing vanity license plates.

In college I had a professor whose license plate read "Bmblum". "Bumbulum" is Latin for little fart. It came from a medieval legal pleading, too complicated to explain here. I bet they didn't know what that meant, wanna guess?

[crokett]

Jeff,

I bet no one who saw that plate knew what it meant either. I had a plate for a bit that said 'jibin' - alternative spelling for a windsurfing term. A lot of people thought it was 'jivin' typoed.

[final_t]

A lot of people are too sensitive and need to get a humor transplant.

[Uncle Cracker]

A lot of people are too sensitive and need to get a humor transplant.

Humor is subjective. What is funny to one may not be funny to another. And one person's rights usually end where the next person's begin. That's the way of things.

[dlminehart]

Personally, I like the double entendres that are superficially innocuous enough to give an reasonable alternative explanation to a curious 6 year old. Like the local food delivery van with the slogan, "Eat Out More Often!" Or the beekeeper's truck with "Eat Your Honey!" Guess I would have let "Nail Me" slip past on that account.