As a former resident of the Virginia Communistwealth, I gave up a long time ago on personalized plates.
*rant*
After dad and I finished the restoration of my 67' all I wanted to do was get HTBULIT plates or "Hard-top Bullitt" (pic to the left doesn't show it but its Highland Green), we paid for the plates filled out the form with the custom lettering and got a standard auto-generated plate. I called up the DMV office in Richmond only to be told by some old lady "Well son, your request for personalized plates were denied due to the offensive nature or provocative tone you requested them to have, and the Virginia DMV has a zero tolerance policy to allow such language on a state issued plate." Before I could tell her to not-so politely fornicate herself, I hung up. I assume they thought it was "Hot Bullet" and that was "offensive" for them. This from the same state that had a online licence plate creator (with built in censorship to prevent the obvious) that allowed you to create a breast cancer awareness plate with "BOOBLESS" on it.
The real nut punch of it all was at a local car show a few months later I see a guy with a then new 2001 Highland Green Mustang Bullitt with horse enthusiast plates that have MYBULIT on it. Same last five character spelling, I was furious. *End rant.* It did help that I beat him out and for 2nd place (I think) and it was my first time showing it.