These are the personalized license plates Tennessee rejected in the last year

There's a spreadsheet that circulates in the Tennessee Department of Revenue with 4,600 bad ideas for vanity license plates.

Among cells of phrases like "TERD96,"ONDRUGS" and "HITLER" are sexual innuendos, expletives, anatomical terms and crude insults strung together using combinations of letters and numbers.

More than likely, you aren't going to succeed at getting any of them embossed on your Tennessee plate.

While the list — used by other states as well, said Kelly McCarthy, public information officer for the Department of Revenue — gets quite specific with multiple variations of potentially objectionable phrases, it serves only as a guideline.

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Not only does state law prohibit the Department of Revenue from issuing license plates "commemorating any practice which is contrary to the public policy of the state," the agency must refuse "any combination of letters, numbers or positions that may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency or that are misleading."

McCarthy said a phrase being included in the objectionable words document doesn't mean it has been rejected previously or will necessarily be thrown out in the future, but serves as "a resource when evaluating personalized plate requests."

Someone could have a legitimate reason to request "HYNEE" on their license plate, after all.

So which phrases has the state of Tennessee determined, in fact, do cross the line? Here's a list of some of the requests denied in the last year. Spoiler: The state turned down five different ways of spelling "Hellcat." (Reader discretion is advised.)

HELLCAT

HELCAT

HAILCAT

HELKAT

HE11CAT

XXX

HELRZR

3SOME

REDRUM

3SUM

3SOM

SHTRFUL

YA HOE

AZZKCKR

AZKICKR

ASE O 2

CUBSBLO

64KRAUT

BULLSHT

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