[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] /boston/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
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