NWTF
So everybody knows about the woman who was told she couldn’t have a license plate with the letters “NWTF” on it. I read in many places that this is because that stands for “Now What the Fuck.”
I dispute that NWTF is any kind of established initialism or acronym meaning “Now What the Fuck.” In fact, outside of stories about this particular incident and Acronym Finder—which claims it stands for Now What the Freak (polite form), intending, I suppose, to avoid the word “fuck"—I find no uses of it anywhere on the Internet. Nowhere.
It’s like anything with an F is obscene ... now, THAT is obscene!
Anyone old enough to remember The Odd Couple, and the joke about Felix Unger’s initials at the bottom of a note? The movie was rated G in 1968. I wonder what it would be today.
Posted by Dan on 08/15 at 12:16 PM
The control, the mind set. I read in the papers the other day. I call it kool Runnins. A place there is no fussing or fightins. No mother are crying. Their children isn’t dying. i ALWAYS THOUGHT “NWTF” MEANT “NOW wHY THE FUSSIN? NOW WHY THE FIGHTING? I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, THE LATTER. nwtf?
Posted by Anwar aswad Amir on 08/31 at 09:16 PM
This NWTF “obscenity” ruling for a license plate is a real turkey. The Driver’s license bureau is completly gobbling up the wrong tree on this one.
Actually, I’ll bet that a closer look at this ruling will reveal that somebody in the license bureau is a good buddy of the owner of the “NorthWest Tax Foundation”. Even the URBAN DICTIONARY has never heard of this abbreviation. They need to STFU.
Posted by surfby on 09/02 at 07:45 AM
