05.21.2010

In my day, nerds were just shoved into lockers, dumpsters, and the like. Well the times, they are a changin‘. Four teens are now facing charges after forcing a disabled boy down and tattooing his ass with the word ‘poop dick’, adding an illustration of a penis beneath it. The 14-year-old victim was often ridiculed at school because he once wore a Spider Man baseball cap. Since then he was often the target of  mockery, which led up to the recent unpleasant incident.

Once cornered at a private home nearby, the bullies threatened to bash him if he tried to escape and insisted that “he was going to get tattooed whether he liked it or not“. They also promised that he’d no longer be teased at school if he agreed to get tattooed. Police later raided the home at which the inking was done and  found the tattooing equipment. The teens have been charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a minor and tattooing without a license.

07.09.2009

Picture 6A man from Las Vegas won a legal battle yesterday with the Nevada DMV over his license plate which reads “HOE”. Initially, the state DMV refused to renew his plate citing that he was making a slang reference to hookers (though if you click on ‘hookers’; the link to Urban Dictionary, the actual definition is ‘a skank’, so I’m not sure how that argument holds water).

The man with the plate in question stated that he originally wanted “TAHOE” but it was taken so he opted for “HOE”. The DMV based their case on the definition found on Urban Dictionary (Me luvs! But, um, that would be like basing a claim on Wikipedia, or the Snapple Fun Facts, both known for untruths.) The court ultimately ruled that sites which include user generated contributions, like Urban Dictionary “don’t reflect generally accepted definitions” and that the site “allows, if not encourages, users to invent new words or attribute new, not generally accepted meanings to existing words“.

BTW, for Merriam-Webster’s definition of hoe click here. Personally, I like the audio pronunciations of words like these.  Also poop.

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