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Brickbat: Would 'Tushyman' Be OK?

Charles Oliver | 2.14.2019 4:00 AM

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All one Saskatchewan man wants is a personalized license plate with his last name on it. But officials have told Dave Assman his last name is "unacceptable." Assman (pronounced Oss-men) says he's proud of his name. "There's nothing bad about it," he said.

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  1. SQRLSY One   6 years ago

    That Tulpa, he is an ASS, man!!!

    I guess Tulpa can't get one of these plates, either. Poor ass!!!!!

    (Butt he-she-it really doesn't need vanity plates, because we all already know that he-she-it is an ass).

    1. Nardz   6 years ago

      Damn, Tulpa owns you

  2. Intelligent Mr Toad   6 years ago

    There's a real possibility that the next President of USA is gonna be a guy named Buttigieg (pronounced "Booty-judge"), and these people are worried about a license plate saying "ASSMAN"?????

  3. Agonia   6 years ago

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  4. Fist of Etiquette   6 years ago

    For Assman, the name is important, because it's one he shares with his great-grandfather, whom he's learned was a well-off farmer from Neudorf, Sask.

    Class warfare is the real reason for all of this.

  5. Cyto   6 years ago

    It is pronounced "Ossman".

    It is just spelled "Throat-Warbler Mangrove".

  6. Will Nonya   6 years ago

    Hey Mr Tushyman Tushy me banan...wait. nevermind. Don't do that.

    1. Ray McKigney   6 years ago

      *guffaw*

  7. Jerryskids   6 years ago

    He should just change his last name to Kuntz.

  8. BigT   6 years ago

    True story:

    Woman in Ohio kept getting honked at and bothered by other drivers.

    Her plate"

    BL04SX

    1. Bretzky   6 years ago

      Oh, the things people do when they're stuck in traffic.

    2. plusafdotcom   6 years ago

      True story II..

      Good friend of mine in NJ many decades back got turned down for a personalized license plate with his (real) initials.

      Mine would have read "ALF" and might have suffered some lame TV show jokes, but his initials were "JEW".
      First name was Jack and last name was of Polish ancestry, where W's are common.... Blame his parents!

  9. Bretzky   6 years ago

    Too bad his given name isn't Asswipe. It's pronounced Oz-WE-pay!

    1. Ska   6 years ago

      Man, that may have been Nicholas Cage's finest moment.

  10. This Machine Chips Fascists   6 years ago

    The buried lede...

    "I don't think that's going to happen, because SGI is SGI. They'll do what they want anyway."

    MXBTSX

  11. Leo Kovalensky II   6 years ago

    No Seinfeld references at all? You people sicken me.

    1. Billy Bones   6 years ago

      That's what I was scrolling through the comments for, to see if anyone else had.

    2. jfil   6 years ago

      As if this story wasn't fusilli enough.

      1. Nardz   6 years ago

        Million to one shot, doc

    3. Ray McKigney   6 years ago

      It could just be a guy with a big ass.

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  14. ElvisIsReal   6 years ago

    Wow talk about missing the story. The happy ending is that he got a giant decal for the back of his truck that looks like the license plate. http://www.thedrive.com/news/2.....s-rejected

    Everybody wins!

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