AFZ - Acronym Free Zone

A 60 year old teacher became incensed when her teen aged grand children started laughing at her licence plate. It was WTF-followed by four numbers. The text messaging teens let her in on the secret that WTF stands for "What The ****" among the thumb typing crowd.

She complained immediately to the North Carolina DMV. Naturally.

Not content with replacing one licence tag, the DMV mailed 9999 car owners that they had an obscenity on their rear and offered to replace it for free. That was last July.

For 11 months thereafter, no one at the DMV noticed that the 10,000th guilty licence plate resided on their Departmental Website. That would be sample licence plate WTF-5506. Turns out the WTF series was the first one off the press. The juvenile deliquents at the state pen had to be in on the joke.

The DMV admits that they vet their licence plates for obscenities all the time which must make for interesting talk around the water cooler. One would think that they would have consulted Google for "dirty Internet acronyms" like I did and discover the List of Internet and Text Message Shorthand.

As a public service, I am pleased to present a list of dirty text messaging acronyms. Is one of these flashing the world from your rear bumper? If so, then ATB (Ain't That a Bitch).

URS, AFT, AMF, BFE, BFD,BFR, BMF, CAS,CBF, CRS, FAH, FBI, FSS, FOS, GFF, AFU, NFF, NFG, NFW, NSS, PFC, RFR, SEG, SOL, SOS, YBF

No, I'm not putting in the translations. You can look them up yourself!

They won't be able to resist banning this list when the Georgia General Assembly meets next January. For good measure, they should ban the number 8. Yeah, look that 1 up, 2.

Finally, I recommend my list to parents for a fun and interesting game to play in the car on long trips with the kids. One point for every acronym they spot. If you are really into encouraging creative play, award extra points for coming up with a dirty acronym for any licence tag they see. For even more educational fun, you can have the kids write the DMV and complain when they get home.

Sure will beat the hell out of 20 questions.