If you ask for any one of at least 6,942 vanity license plates in New York, DMV has an answer for you: KISMYS.

Since 2010, New York has processed 152,430 applications for personalized license plates. More than 5,000 were rejected, according to state Department of Motor Vehicles records provided to The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com.

There's another list of nearly 2,000 that are permanently banned: An application with one of those combinations will be automatically rejected before it reaches human eyeballs.

The list of plates that have been rejected over the past five years is 112 pages long. It is the stuff that makes mom cringe and 12-year-olds giggle. From IPOOP to DAMMSTR8, JERKY to RECTUM, the list is a guide to what can get a kid a detention.

The banned plates fall into these categories:

Dirty, of course: 2PUPON, 4NK8TION

Deceptive: OFISHAL, 3SENATOR

Racist/hateful: REDNECK, GODAGO, POLOCK

Rude/anti-social: OUTAMYWA, BIPOLA, ALKEY, KISSFANI

Political/controversial: 2GLOCKS, 4PROLIFE, BUSHLIDE, NOOBAMA,

But some of the rejected plates make you wonder whose standard is being used: JUSTLMAO. PROSTATE, OUR3BOYS, NVER4GET, DIVORCER.

Some other less interesting vanity plate combinations are reserved for cars to use on TV and movie sets.

Vanity plates have to meet some simple DMV guidelines:

Have at least one letter

Cannot have six numbers followed by one letter

Cannot lead someone to believe that the plate belongs to a government agency (but DAFUZZ appears to not be banned yet).

Then there's subjectivity: "the plates cannot be, in the discretion of the commissioner, obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory, to a particular ethnic or other group, or patently offensive."

Just how much a state can regulate what a person puts on a vanity plate is a question serious enough for the Supreme Court to consider. Later this year, the country's highest court will hear a case brought by The Sons of Confederate Veterans against the state of Texas. The group's request to use the Confederate flag on vanity plates was turned down. The court's ruling could impact the standards used for vanity plates across the county.



For now, New York's approval process goes like this, the DMV says: The first line of defense against offense is a list called "The Red Guide." That list has 1,798 entries ranging from ABIG1 to 9INCH. When a person fills out an application for a vanity plate, a computer searches against the Red Guide entries.

If there's a match - someone wants 4NAK8ION for their Subaru, perhaps - that gets rejected automatically. But if the request still raises eyebrows in the DMV cubicles after that, it gets forwarded up the chain for review by a live person in the custom plates office of the DMV.

The staff in the custom plates unit at the DMV reviews questionable plates by using Google and the Urban Dictionary, much like a parent trying decipher a teen's texts. Staffers rejected 5,127 plates using methods like this in the last five years, according to data from the DMV.

LMFAO is not on the prohibited list, but is on the list of the plates that have been rejected in the past five years

The rejection likely came after a staffer Googled it or looked it up in the Urban Dictionary, which you will also have to do.

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