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For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all
they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...e=preview#road I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...review#italian But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On Apr 23, 8:51*pm, wrote:
For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: *http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: *http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Cheers, Carl Fogel I've got the equivalent Washington plate: http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistr...gn.html#sports It's $30 more than a regular plate, and $29 of that goes to the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, IIRC. |
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For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...e=preview#road I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...review#italian But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? A Sicilian girlfriend once was stopped on her birthday in a car her father gave her. It had several plates in the trunk but none of them, nor the displayed plate, matched the car... -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:56 -0400, RonSonic
wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:51:30 -0600, wrote: For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...e=preview#road I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...review#italian But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Florida doesn't have ethnic plates, but I think we've got you beat in every other category. http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtytags/ Of course we've got "Share the Road" and for a darn sight cheaper, only $15 over the regular fee. There's the "Choose Life" tag that has incited some controversy. Nobody argues over the "Stop Child Abuse" or "Save the Manatee." We do love us some manatee down here. Got every major school and professional sports team in the state. We even have a John Lennon song for some reason. http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtyt...s/imagine.html Ron Dear Ron, Yikes! Your Florida license plate list looks much longer than Colorado's. Your share-the-road plate looks much better (or at least has a bigger bicycle) and seems to be about $60 cheaper, too. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On Apr 23, 9:27*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:56 -0400, RonSonic wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:51:30 -0600, wrote: For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren.... I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren.... But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Florida doesn't have ethnic plates, but I think we've got you beat in every other category. *http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtytags/ Of course we've got "Share the Road" and for a darn sight cheaper, only $15 over the regular fee. There's the "Choose Life" tag that has incited some controversy. Nobody argues over the "Stop Child Abuse" or "Save the Manatee." We do love us some manatee down here. Got every major school *and professional sports team in the state. We even have a John Lennon song for some reason. |
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:49 -0700 (PDT), Jay Beattie
wrote: On Apr 23, 9:27*pm, wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:56 -0400, RonSonic wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:51:30 -0600, wrote: For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Florida doesn't have ethnic plates, but I think we've got you beat in every other category. *http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtytags/ Of course we've got "Share the Road" and for a darn sight cheaper, only $15 over the regular fee. There's the "Choose Life" tag that has incited some controversy. Nobody argues over the "Stop Child Abuse" or "Save the Manatee." We do love us some manatee down here. Got every major school *and professional sports team in the state. We even have a John Lennon song for some reason. http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtyt...s/imagine.html Ron Dear Ron, Yikes! Your Florida license plate list looks much longer than Colorado's. Your share-the-road plate looks much better (or at least has a bigger bicycle) and seems to be about $60 cheaper, too. Cheers, Carl Fogel Gads, ours is so boring! http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/vehic...enonprof.shtml At least it is relatively cheap. -- Jay Beattie. Dear Jay, At least your Oregon share-the-road plate has big side view of a bicyclist. It takes a second look to spot the bicyclist on the Colorado plate. You can read the Colorado license plate before you can make out the bicyclist stuck in the middle of the letters and numbers. And ten bucks for two years makes the Oregon share-the-road plate about as cheap as a $5 bumper sticker. Greedy Colorado wants a one-time total of $75. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On Apr 24, 5:26*am, AMuzi wrote:
A Sicilian girlfriend once was stopped on her birthday in a car her father gave her. It had several plates in the trunk but none of them, nor the displayed plate, matched the car... -- Andrew Muzi * www.yellowjersey.org/ * Open every day since 1 April, 1971 That's how I got off over 3000 parking tickets and didn't go to jail for being a scofflaw. I had a plate that read something rude, but I kept forgetting where I parked my car, and the dealer kept a spare in my colour, sunflower yellow, so my sidekick would just order the next one for delivery on Friday evening and, since the accountants feared I would throw them out onto Madison from the eight-floor window in the boardroom I had labelled "Post CPAs here", in one particularly pressured year I lost nine cars without them tattling on me. Can't remember how many altogether I lost over the years I worked on and off in NY. At business school I knew a guy from an Italian family (mama and sisters thought I spoke the most mellifluous Italian -- I thought they cooked divinely -- a mutual admiration made in heaven) which had quite a few of its associates incarcerated and punching out plates at any one time, and he gave me multiple copies of my one plate for my birthday every year. So, when we got to court, the cops couldn't explain how they had ticketed the same car at the same time at different place not once but dozens of times. "Kafkaesque," I said when asked, shaking my head in bafflement, adding, "I go to work by chauffered Mercedes and my weekend Porsche is in my girlfriend's garage in Long Island, all alone, nothing to breed with." The judge choked on my joke, threw the case out, reprimanded the police severely for being incompetents, and apologized to me for the interference in my business of having to turn up in court on a false charge. "Not at all. We like to demonstrate that businessmen too are good citizens." I love American justice: very fair to the deserving. I was just brassed off that I wasn't the biggest scofflaw; there was a guy with 11,000 tickets, that's eleven thousand. Awesome. He didn't get off. Bummer. Andre Jute Always worth knowing a Sicilian or two |
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Jay Beattie wrote:
On Apr 23, 9:27 pm, wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:56 -0400, RonSonic wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:51:30 -0600, wrote: For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Florida doesn't have ethnic plates, but I think we've got you beat in every other category. http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtytags/ Of course we've got "Share the Road" and for a darn sight cheaper, only $15 over the regular fee. There's the "Choose Life" tag that has incited some controversy. Nobody argues over the "Stop Child Abuse" or "Save the Manatee." We do love us some manatee down here. Got every major school and professional sports team in the state. We even have a John Lennon song for some reason. http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtyt...s/imagine.html Ron Dear Ron, Yikes! Your Florida license plate list looks much longer than Colorado's. Your share-the-road plate looks much better (or at least has a bigger bicycle) and seems to be about $60 cheaper, too. Cheers, Carl Fogel- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Gads, ours is so boring! http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/vehic...enonprof.shtml At least it is relatively cheap. -- Jay Beattie. Ohio has 'em: http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/vehicle_registration/share_the_road.htm I've got a pair on my car. They cost an extra $15, but the money goes to publish the "Ohio Bicycling Street Smarts: Riding Confidently, Legally, and Safely" booklet. Greg |
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On Apr 23, 10:01*pm, Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Apr 23, 8:51*pm, wrote: For years, Colorado had led the USA in milking license plates for all they're worth, with 66 varieties: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n19327591/ How bad is the license plate racket here? The article notes that the Sons of Confederate Veterans has an application pending for a Colorado license plate. (I note with pride that the article shows _zero_ University of Southern Colorado plates were purchased after all the efforts by Pueblo legislators to create the plate.) Today I saw my first share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... I was curious enough to look it up. In addition to the $50 government fee, you must "donate" $25 more to this group to get the Colorado share-the-road pro-bicycle license plate: *http://bicyclecolo.org/page.cfm?PageID=764 Hmmm . . . That's $75 for a share-the-road license plate. For only $5, I can buy a share-the-road bumper sticker that's much larger and easier to read: *http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.15067323 Interestingly, this ethnic group has official Colorado license plates: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...1542141645?ren... But you don't have to "donate" anything to the Corleone family to get the Italian-American license plates--you just pay the $50 state fee. Heck, even someone named Fogel can buy Italian-American license plates from the state of Colorado. I wonder if Sergio can get Colorado license plates in Pisa? Cheers, Carl Fogel I've got the equivalent Washington plate:http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistr...gn.html#sports It's $30 more than a regular plate, and $29 of that goes to the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, IIRC. That means you'll probably get -$4.00 of actual value out of it. You'd get more accomplished riding up on someone at a Starbucks kiosk window, thank them for sharing the road with cyclists even though many are really arrogant jerks, and paying for their coffee. Now *that* will make a lasting impression. Twice already this year I've been complemented for not running a stoplight whereas a rider/s ahead of me did. Cyclists flaunt traffic law, and don't think drivers don't see it and remember it. |
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