It turns out that it's a marketing campaign by the Alaska Travel Industry Association. Seems exceptionally morbid, but if you believe that all publicity is good publicity, Alaska will probably see some tourism dollars out of it.
It's not properly leetspeak; if you look closely, that's an Alaska license plate, so it's just the standard 'how can I get something clever out of a custom license plate message?' schtick you see people doing all over the country (like "ML8 ML8" on a white Rabbit, or "GSHNDHT" on an Isuzu). Even if it's dumb, though, it's still less disturbing than Virgil's comment "See Naples and die".
I agree. How long b 4 we go numb? May be to late. The stupid Marijuana commercials "just tell em' you were getting high." All this stuff drives me nuts. Saw a billboard this morning. A man walking happily with the absent figure of a woman and reads,"He sped, she's dead." There is a time and a place. Here kids we have to tell the adults what could maybe possibly happen when you speed or get high. Or better yet if you don't go to Alaska. Yeah sure kids don't know what it means just yet but after they are all grown up and have had no choice but to dwell on death all their lives what significance is death going to have? Maybe they'll be hanging the remains from the signs. eww I can't belive that came from me. See.
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Date: 2005-10-09 02:13 pm (UTC)Heck, that'd probably be a better ad campaign.
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Date: 2005-10-09 06:47 pm (UTC)Is this something to do with current pop culture?
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Date: 2005-10-10 11:09 pm (UTC)Gruesome
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