Apparently the dipshit hippies in Oregon would find this offensive too
DMV deems Oregon family’s name offensive | KOMO 1000 News Radio – News, Weather and Sports – Seattle, WA Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional — To me this action offends everyone from the Netherlands and anyone with a foreign name. I’m personally offended now. Humppf!
A Merlin family has been ordered to turn in the vanity license plates for their cars because the state finds their Dutch name can be interpreted as offensive. The plates, UDINK1 UDINK2 and UDINK3 are on the vehicles of Mike and Shelly Udink and their son Kalei. Two of the plates are five and seven years old. One was issued last year.
Last summer Kawika Udink’s application for Udink4 was rejected and the state ordered the other three plates returned.
The plates are now invalid and the 90-day temporary registrations sent to the family in June are also likely expired, according to David House, spokesman for the state Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division.
The plates were deemed offensive by a 10-person DMV panel that approves custom, or “vanity” plates, which cost an extra $80.
House, who serves on the panel, said the reasons were the sexual references that can be associated with the name, which can be treated as a verb. “DINK has several derogatory meanings,” wrote panel member Yvonne Bell. She said it also can be a racial slur, especially toward Vietnamese. House said the “U” in the front could be construed as “You.”
It seems unreal to Mike Udink, whose name is Dutch. He says it is a common name in The Netherlands.
found by Aric Mackey who points out that in the USA DINK commonly means “double income, no kids.” Hardly offensive.
I thought I was worldly wise…but what is the sexual reference to dink? Divorced income no kids? Common phrase around the water cooler….
Oregon….a rinky-dink state.
And I thought my name was offensive…
The Oregon DMV is comprised of a bunch of dinkholes.
Pretty much every state that decides it needs some kind of family value overseer will guaranteed pick the most uptight, useless volunteer taste-nazis available.
I think they’re getting dink confused with chink. Not that I use that word myself.
When I lived in Canada, I was told that “dink” was slang for the male anatomy. Maybe this is what they’re thinking of?
>> I thought I was worldly wise…but what is the sexual reference to dink?
Same here… as kids we used it as mild insult as in, “you dink!” or “stop dinking around” but I never thought it as sexual.
Here are the Google hits, none sexual:
Definitions of dink on the Web:
* ball played just over the net or blocker’s hands, instead of spiking
http://www.athens2004.com/en/BeachVolleyballGlossary
* Short form for “Double Income, No Kids”. A description of a type of Purchaser in the real estate market.
http://www.search4miamihomes.com/realestateglossary/D.html
* A soft hit ball, usually either a “dink serve” or a “dink spike”.
takraw.webark.org/glossary.html
* A small boat used to travel from a boat to shore, carrying people or supplies. Also known as a dink or tender.
http://www.terrax.org/sailing/glossary/gd.aspx
* is an acronym used to collectively talk about data, information and knowledge.
http://www.mountainquestinstitute.com/definitions.htm
* 1. A small open boat equipped with either oars or an outboard motor, occasionally rigged with sails; 2. A small boat used for transportation to shore from a larger vessel.
http://www.ninnescah.org/library/glossaryd.htm
* a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids)
* drop shot: a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* DINK is a term used to define the “Dual Income, No Kids”. See demographic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dink
#9 It was also offensive slang for a North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam war by American and Australian troops. But I still fail to see the sexual connotation.
Probably just some uber-sensitive that mentally transposed the n to a c.
#3
They’re Christians remeber? Anything not made/invented by the reverend/preacher/shepherd/father is satanic/obscene.
#11
Wrong number, I was referring to #10.
Uh-Oh! Am I the only one impressed by the Winky Dink comic and interactive television show?
I must be the oldest one here?
Perry
5. hhopper. “The Oregon DMV is comprised of a bunch of dinkholes.”
You dink too.
RBG
OK..
They released the original plates, and NOW they find that they are derogatory??
Man! Glad I don’t live in OR! I wonder if they would find my last name (Helliwell) offensive? Maybe I have to change it to “Heckiwell”?
Winky Dink and You
http://tinyurl.com/2uj9s6
it is amazing how easy people become offended. May be civilization has become too comfy, so the easily offended need something to occupy their time.
I see the word God all over the place, but I haven’t become a whiny butt about it yet.
Umm, I live in Oregon and the only think I find offensive about this post is being called a Hippy you you little dink!!
A dink is slang for a male child’s penis, and is not meant to be derogatory. I’m surprised it’s only a Canadian term.
Another Dutch surname is Koch, pronounced cock. We have a company called Koch Transport in our city.
My brother-in-law’s last name is Kook. He changed it to Cook.
I live in OR and my last name is Butts…lol maybe I should give it a try just for grins 🙂
OK – So Oregon is full of Idiots. Who cares?
As long as I know enough to avoid them, they can continue to Bikini Wax their brain cells one by one,
It is interesting that Haus (german term for House) has been termed as racial by some. I wonder if this is on the list of “outlawed” terms.
If DINK is offensive, don’t even get me started with DINKWAD (Double Income, No Kids With A Dog)
😛 the local paper here runs a piece every monday on someons vanity plate. Kinda the why you have this as your plate id. One guy had the best one so far, said he was called this plenty of times. He even had a state trooper ask him what it stood for, he told the trooper he had to read it upside down… trooper layed down on his back to read the plate… 310455V
now depending on style of font you have… this will be very clear, others will have to use a little imagination.
. .#13
I too wondered how many people here gets it.
works without the overlay too. Good for a whippin from dad
#24 Sort of like TIHZ HO – A perfect plate for State Troopers to have so when they pull up behind you and you look in your rear view mirror…
As many of you know I am in China. The Italian word for hello and goodbye ‘Ciao’ sounds very much like “F*CK” in Chinese.
I once worked with a British lass who thought it trendy to say “Ciao, Ciao!” at the end of a meeting. She never noticed all the red faces on the Chinese people – to them she was saying “F*CK, F*CK!” It took me a while to tell her…it was just too much fun!
We have time for one more?
I found out that the word ‘Newbie” is a very offensive term to call a Chinese person. I was hosting a training session and just before we started a person stood up and told me he had just started and hopes that he can learn quickly.
So I said to everyone “Please welcome the ‘newbie”.
Everyone started to chuckle his face went red and he exclaimed “I am NOT a newbie!!”
I countered “Yes you are, you’re a NEW-BIE…” And everyone now broke out laughing. It was then explained to me that in Chinese ‘Newbie’ means an obnoxious braggart of the worst kind. The direct translation of ‘Newbie’ from Chinese to English is “Cow’s Vagina”. So a ‘Newbie’ always brags that everything is bigger than anyone else’s including a cow’s vagina.
Cheers
I’m Dutch and the name Udink doesn’t strike me as particularly ‘common’ (this is the first I’ve heard of it), although it is definitely Dutch: it follows the same pattern as many other Dutch names: *ink, similar to the perhaps better-known Van */Vande(r/n)* patterns (Van Gogh, Van Buren, Vanderbilt, etc). All these mean the same thing: from (Van Buren: “Martin from Buren”, Udink: “Mike from Uden”).
> Another Dutch surname is Koch, pronounced cock. We have a company called Koch Transport in our city.
Koch is not a Dutch name, it’s German (and the pronunciation rhymes with the Scottish word loch — not that many non-Scots know how to pronounce that). OTOH Cock or de Cock (yes, spelled and pronounced exactly the same as in English) *is* a very common Dutch name, as are the alternative spellings of (de) Kock and (de) Kok (e.g. the previous Dutch Prime Minister was Wim Kok). In Dutch it means (the) chef or (the) cook. I’m willing to bet though that any American with such a name will have had it changed a looong time ago — or at least that they avoid naming their kids Richard 😉
You two arent the only geezers here. I had a Winky Dink set. You kids get off my lawn!
We all remember Danny Lickshit grew up embarrassed by his name. On reaching 21 he filed court papers to have it changed.
Meet Larry Lickshit.
“double income, no kids” is offensive to all the parents out there who have to raise the next generation while the DINKs live it up without the burden.
#25 barovelli
#28 maddmaxx
Barovelli, I am sure that if you had explained to the ol’man that you were combining a raster scanned image with a vector based overlay without spending fifty cents for the kit, he would have been grateful.
The overlay screen and the crayons in the Winky Dink set must have been saturated with polychlorinated biphenyls. This PCB exposure must account for the small number of “Dinkers” on this site. Dinkers using the direct interface method, without the kit, may not have been exposed to the PCBs but would still be exposed to x-rays generated by the high voltage power supply in the vacuum tube televisions of the time.
Its time to call a lawyer. CBS, Enright Productions, the FCC and the Communists conspired to poison and irradiate the youth of America. I see proof of this conspiracy every time I look into a mirror.
Dink Power!
Perry