I wonder how the World Taekwondo Federation feel about their name being considered offensive.

WTF is their problem with WTF?

Sorry, had to be said

Surely it's other people who would find it offensive, you don't look at your own number plate do you?

Paris because she knows WTF

What about CuNTs and TaRDs ? ;)

Not to mention DRuGs, GAY, LeSBos...

I'd like a PH, because she might be into all that stuff.

The DMV was using "WTF-5505" as the sample plate on their web site: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1118273.html

We had such interesting number plates in the UK

I'd pay for that one.

Wonder if I can lodge a request with ICANN to register that as a TLD

I guess my buddy William Terrance Franklin is just SOL. Hmmmm.....SOL??? Looks like a real FUBAR to me. Hmmmm .... FUBAR??? I guess it's just too frakking bad for the WTF users. Hmmmmmm .... TFB??? Well, you know, for the national conscience it is a big frelling deal. Hmmmmm .... BFD???

Hmmmmmmm .......

Having a slow Friday - can El Reg invent some news, please?

Zurich Central Station has the letters "SBB CFF FFS" above the entrance. FFS.

Makes me smile whenever I go past.

http://railroadpictures.net/Stations/Zurich_Hauptbahnhof/IMG_9354_tn1024.jpg

A good friend of mine in Melbourne has WTF (just the three letters) as his custom numberplate, and there wasn't a problem getting it issued there.

http://www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk/home/en/Search/p/global?string=wtf

i seem to remember a few years back a similar incident over here, when the P reg came in and the the DVLA refused to issue the number 'P155 OFF'

but that may be just wishful thinking on my part!

I see,

Well then I'd be changing mine to something like- "SMD" or "BMN" or "KMA" or "FYS"... or my personal favorite- "FUB". See if you can figure out what those mean!!! LOL!!!

WTF (Work Time Fun) is a great PSP game... what's offensive about it?

When working in business sales for BT, all orders placed had a reference number which consisted of several numbers and 4 letters. We actually had a about 2 weeks of order reference numbers with C-U-N-T in them, and we HAD to give the reference number to the customer :) Oh the joys of arguing with people thinking you are taking the piss and having to call your manager over to confirm to the customer it was a genuine order number...

This was towards the end of 2006, in case anyone has old paperwork sitting about form then... Have a look...

...to the ingenuity of people who want a "rude" number plate. Many years ago in the UK I saw "4 COF". I expect that would be OK in North Carolina, since they wouldn't get it.

Coat icon, coz I'll just 4 COF now.

"WTF's 60th Anniversay Lecture Series - Archbishop Rowan Williams......."

Given the Archbishop's hard-earned reputation as a clueless beardie with a tendancy to spout complete bollocks in public, surely that one's the usual meaning?

Apparently he's speaking at the Foundation for Universal Christian Knowledge and World Interfaith Tolerance next week........

LMAO and ROFL! How FUBAR is that? What a bunch of SOC's!

Apparently FTW (ooo it's an anagram, how handy) these days means "For the Win".

In my day it meant "Fuck The World".

So, WTF FTW ...

IJGMC.

To be honest I'm surprised that the Catholic Church hasn't been up in arms about File Transfer Protocol.

... DMV also means Dick Meets Vag?

Stagecoach have been running an extended advertising campaign for weekly passes on their buses. The adverts are a huge vinyl wrap-around, that covers the whole of the rear of the bus, I'm sure everyone knows the type. The image is a cartoon washing line with clothing on it, with a letter for each day of the week over each one. As you're probably guessed by now, the items for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday just happen to be the ones that appear on the rear of the bus.

I often wonder, as one passes me of a morning, who the genius was in their advertising department who got that past their management, and how sad is it that I appear to be the only person over 30 who appears to have noticed it.

should use a BFH on the plate and just smash it flat.

There's an older gentleman that drives a '60s Ford Falcon ranchero around town with the California custom license plate TIHSEPA. No, I'm not kidding! Read _that_ one backwards!

Sorry to rain on your parade

The DVLA would have never released 'P155 OFF' in the previous incarnations of number plates...

The letters 'I', 'O', and 'Z' (and a couple of others, I think, but those are the ones I remember) could not appear in the final trilogy of letters it was said that they could be misconstrued as numbers, 1, 0 and 2 respectively.

So P155 OFF would never have happened!

...they should STFU.

Alright already, I'll BO...

WTF WJD

... TLA stand for Tits, Legs, Ass?

Things work differently, er . . . strangely. Not only has WTF been taken out, but so has XXX.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1107923.html

I grew up here, but moved back last year after living in New York city for 10 years. Geeeez, things are sooooo provencial. I laugh at ordinary citizens complete ignorance every day. I need to get on back up to NY. This place is weird.