NYRICAN

[podling]

I saw this license plate today. NJ license, "NYRICAN". Now, I'm pretty sure they requested this, given that it spells out a word (of sorts), but what *exactly* is it that they're trying to say?

Is it a play on "american", like, "I'm from NY, yet american and patriotic"? Or is it more vague than that, like, I'm from puerto rico (hence, puerto RICAN) and from NY, giving us NYRICAN? Discuss.

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

http://www.geocities.com/walward/Rvw_NuyoricanDream.html

[podling]

Hmmn. Thanks Claris! I may need to see that.

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I think that movie with the guy who was dating Julia Roberts before and is fairly cute also involves Nuyoricans. Could I be any more vague? :P (BENJAMIN BRATT! That's it. Phew.) I think that's when I first saw the word.

There was a crazy-funny guy in my Chinese class in Taiwan this summer who identified that way too.