<VV> automatic shift lever,was: Plate News

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I have a friend that calls the Corvair's automatic shift lever a "hoe
handle". What's with that?

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> Subject: <VV> Plate News
>  
> Man Can Have "HOE" on Car Plates
>
> News of the Strange:
>  
> A Las Vegas man won the right to have  "HOE" on his license plates, after 
> the Nevada Dept. of Motor Vehicles tried to  keep them from him,
according to 
> the Associated Press. The agency rejected  William Junge's request for
the 
> vanity plates on the grounds that HOE was a  slang term for prostitutes,
the 
> story read. Junge, 62, argued that the plates  were a reference to his 
> _1999 Chevy Tahoe_
(http://autos.aol.com/cars-Chevrolet-Tahoe-1999/overview) , 
> which he chose  after finding out "TAHOE" was not available, the AP
reported.
>  
> But "FNADER"  is not okay?  I think Frank Nader should be outraged!  HO! 
> HO!  HO!
>
> Seth Emerson