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The atomic nuked veteran commemorative plate
[1]Today Hoade had to run an errand to the Mississippabamasisboombah DMV
(Department of Motor Vehicles) to get his (and his wife's) car registered
with the state. Our first stop was the Tuscaloosa Court House [2] as Hoade
felt that if such an office existed, it would be at the court hourse.
I was rather surprised at how laid back things were at the Tuscaloosa Court
House as there was a refreshing lack of X-ray equipment and border guards at
the entrance. Contrast this to the local Broward Court House [3] near the
Facility in the Middle of Nowhere where the guards, standing on the other
side of the high-powered X-ray equipment, cheerfully wear rubber gloves, “for
your protection.”
We wandered about for a minute, found an appropriate sounding office, and
inquired within, but alas, the Mississippabamasisboombah DMV was not in the
court house, but across the street.
A short walk later, and we were in a rather short line waiting our turn at
the counter. Strung across the ceiling where the various plates one could get
in Mississippabamasisboombah but the one that stuck out was the license place
commemorating “atomic nuked verterans.”
“Atomic nuked veterans [4].”
Funny, but I would not have pegged Mississippabamasisboombah as having a
significant population of atomically nuked veterans, expecting instead a
state like New Mexico [5] or Nevada [6] or Tennessee [7] to have that
distinction, but I guess I'm sadly mistaken.
But we were still highly amused.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2004/05/17/thumb.nuke.plate.jpg
[2]
http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/digital/pcards/237.jpg
[3]
http://www.browardclerk.org/clerkofcourts/cli00300.htm
[4]
http://platesusa.com/rare.htm
[5]
http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~alex/ww2/trinity.htm
[6]
http://ndep.nv.gov/boff/maps.htm
[7]
http://www.tennessean.com/special/oakridge/part1/
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