--- Wayne Graefen <wgraefen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As an aside, the term pink slips comes from
California where car
> titles for many decades were printed on pink paper.
> Within the last ten years they changed the paper to
pink and yellow and
> green for some silly governmental reason.
Actually, this was done because scanner and color
Xerox technology had gotten to the point where CA DMV
felt the solid pink was too easy to
duplicate/counterfeit.
> But "racing for pinks" comes from the old days of
hot-rodding in "the
> golden state".
Still not sure if I'm proud of that...
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