Here’s just one more reason I hope I never wind up in the Huntsville state penitentiary. I don’t want to have to make these:

This is the new Texas license plate. This particular photo is from the Texas Department of Transportation website, but I have something very similar now on my green Nissan mom-mobile. Thanks, TxDOT, for pimping my ride.

I posted this photo on Facebook, asking my FB friends what they thought of it. One of my favorite comments was from my friend J: “It looks like someone threw up while singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’”

Some of my other friends thought this was a photo of my actual license plate and told me it looks like a vanity plate for boobs.

When these plates came in the mail, Girl said, “Send them back, Mommy and tell them to resign them.”

“You mean, redesign?” I asked.

“Yeah,” she said.

That’s right, a five year old can tell they suck. So how did Texas end up with such butt-ugly license plates? It takes a village.

Texans were given a choice of five license plate designs and asked to vote for their favorite. That lovely thing up there is the winner.

And so the great State of Texas proves what we in the communications biz have known all along – design by committee always produces crap. Always.