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BIOCH License Plates Bring Out New Jersey's Inner Jersey
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John Del Signore
Published May 20, 2010
Modified May 20, 2010
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There are so many deliciously dumb quotes in this Daily News follow-up about the Jersey woman whose vanity BIOCH license plates got revoked that you have to wonder if the tabloid's reporters use a question-generating algorithm designed to elicit the most inane answers. Or maybe it's just the Jersey talking.
You'll recall that after four years of driving like a BIOCH, a single complaint from a retired uptight cop prompted the DMV to take the plates back from Kim Romano, who will now be reduced to driving around with plates reading, "WHAEVER." Yesterday she gave the News the first of several GOLD quotes: "It sort of makes me feel like almost an invasion of privacy or taking away your freedom of speech." That's right, our Founding Fathers fought for this BIOCH! Secondly: "It's a plate. It's not a word really. It's made up, and if you want to get technical, it's spelled b-i-o-t-c-h." Exactly, it's even in the dictionary.
Next we turn to Romano's next-door neighbor, a 71-year-old retired cop named Mike Kassick, who's got this BIOCH's back: "It doesn't offend me at all. I thought it was very funny. My wife thought it was like bocce, like the Italians play." And another "lifelong" Manville, New Jersey resident, Steve Danysh, actually flapped his lips to say, "If the state issued it, it can't be that bad." See you at the forced labor camps, Steve-o! Amazingly, the News actually found someone who makes Steve look like Philip Roth. Carlos Raijall, 27, simply wants this BIOCH to think of the children: "Some kids could see that, and that word is not good for them. Maybe they could put something else, like, 'God Bless You.' "
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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