Fun fact: NASA dropped the "Excursion" part midway through development, on the grounds that it made the mission sound like something you would do to earn a Boy Scout merit badge, making the official initials just LM, but everyone below the executive level kept calling it the LEM even thought the "E" no longer stood for anything.

--G.
As an aside, if I had been running the Boy Scouts of America at the time, I would totally have created a Lunar Excusion merit badge and issued it to any of the Apollo astronauts who happened to have been Boy Scouts, which was probably a lot of them.
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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

news just in: traitor arrives at party, poops it.

So we put Reiliel the Griffin on the side and put "EPU Official Editorial Vehicle" in as the text, and "Not A Mail Carrier" on the back and on reversed letters on the front of the hood, and Gryph is golden.

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so you can read it in rear view windows, that's why.

According to the wikimedia metadata, the vehicle in the photograph is privately owned, so, there's that. Admittedly, the USPS hasn't used the DJ for something like 30 years now, in addition to the outdated livery and logo, but on the other hand, no LLV has ever been officially seen in that livery, since they went to the all-white paint scheme years before it was introduced. To be on the safe side, one might do well to wait until all the LLVs are out of the fleet, and/or adjust the markings for parody purposes, as Meph suggests.

Anyway, as far as I know, the logo itself is the only part that would be legally actionable, (assuming the USPS has been canny enough to maintain the trademark on it, even though it hasn't been used in decades). "The car is painted dark blue below the fender line and white above, with a red cheatline" is not the kind of thing one can trademark.

Also, I don't have any money and the things are not officially for sale anyway, so...

--G.
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