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2-B-NVD?(Editorial)

2-B-NVD?

by Bob Hall

It was a fine spring day at the open air farmers market. People were buying plants for their gardens and produce for their tables. It was a laid back and relaxed atmosphere and folks seemed friendly and pleasant. As we walked back to our car, I noticed a bright red BMW parked next to us. Its license plate read ALLABTME. "There," I remarked, "is a perfectly fine car wasted on a jerk."

I don't know why that egocentric license plate bothered me, but it did. They call them vanity plates and some are cute or funny and mostly harmless. Others remind one of how vanity got its bad name. I recently ran across a term I hadn't seen before, the ...

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