Jesterchef
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Re:Micheal Goudeau and Penn - 2006/01/20 10:50
from the Las Vegas Sun from 1/3/06:
If you find yourself tailing a hot-pink Mini Cooper bearing a vanity licence plate reading "ATHIEST," know that the 6-foot-6 inch ponytailed man behind the wheel is the notoriously opinionated Penn Jillette.
Jillette, who along with partner Teller, organized the third "Penn & Teller's 13 Bloody Days of Xmas" blood drive (which concluded Saturday), owns three Mini Coopers. All are his favorite color, bright pink, and each is fixed with a vanity plate: Jillette's other two plates read "GODLESS" and "NO GOD."
Such public opining is nothing new for Jillette, who for much of his career as a comic magician has argued against organized religion. Also, P&T's program on Showtime, "Bull----," is a self-described debunking crusade that knows no bounds. As for the plates, Jillette said he has been rejected by the DMV just once -- when he tried to secure "INFIDEL" for one of his Minis.
"They said no to that," Jillette said last month during the first day of the blood drive at United Blood Services. He reasoned, probably correctly, that the word's link to terrorism would not fly with the DMV -- and thus has finally found a boundary.
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