The official blue flashers, called migalki, are often acquired through bribes.
According to the Iraqis, they asked Frese for green badges, which were a notch below the official blue American badges.
When she was arrested, she was on her way to the United States Open qualifying rounds, dressed in the official blue uniform of a line umpire.
A "verified" account — one that Twitter has judged "authentic" and to be "of public interest" — is given an official blue check mark.
"Raqqa 240 kilometres," says the official blue road marker which flashes past us, and I look at my driver – his name is Mohamed – and he casts me a look of both humour and palpable unease.
Barking and Dagenham will get its first official blue plaque, marking the house where Bobby Moore still lived when he first wore the England shirt in 1962 – although his old school, Ripple Primary, put up its own blue plaque three years ago.
It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to the 2008 Olympic Games, the official Blue Sky ratings are the city's own measuring stick for how well it is cleaning up its polluted air.
He has been impressed by the facilities at the new offices of nearby Knightstone Housing Association, where there's a "Knightstone blue badge" for those who don't qualify for the official blue badge but need to park near the building, perhaps if they're temporarily disabled, or pregnant.
Roulin still wears his official blue hat bearing the word "Postes" in gold, but, surrounded by flowers, with reddened lips in the midst of a soft, abundantly curling beard, the postman gazes from eyes that seem as much maternal as paternal.
In recent years, official blue plaques have been unveiled in Oxfordshire for Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb and composer Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson.
