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  After 11 years, Virginia decides man can't be 'poofter' -- at least not on his car tags

  Source: Washington Post For 11 years, over nearly 200,000 miles, with the blessing of the state of Virginia, David Phillips has driven his Tracker with the "POOFTER" license plate, and nobody has complained -- not even when he parked at the British Embassy, where everybody knows "poofter" is British slang for a gay man. "It's always a rolling good laugh for them," says Phillips, who is gay and chose his tags' message because "it's just an amusing word that I self-identify with." The commonwealth of Virginia is not amused. It gave Phillips his... Posted Nov 04 2007, 11:27 AM by NewsEditor with | with no comments Filed under: advertising, law, state:VA

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