--- 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... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com |