Vanity Plates II

[jsteph]

Ok...to continue in a new thread...

PHEWISH

Anyone have ideas on this one?

I think it's "Pfff...You wish!"
It's probably on an expensive car...

--Jim

 

[kskid]

Noticed this one and started to chuckle.

KAPUKAI

In Hawaiian, it means that everything is either backwards, upside down or off kilter.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

A couple I've seen over the last few days:

[tab]GOIN2OBX

Spoiler

OBX is short for Outer Banks, the barrier islands off the coast of NC, so it is "goin' to outter banks"

I don't get this one:
[tab]NUKEVET

I assume "nuke vet," but I still don't understand it. It was on a huge white pickup truck with bumper stickers including "proud descendant of a confederate soldier", several anti-Democrat slogans, at least one homophobic slogan and a confederate flag. Hopefully the driver won't find this thread and shoot me in the face....

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[rjoubert]

I don't get this one:
NUKEVET

I assume "nuke vet," but I still don't understand it.

Maybe he was in the Navy, serving on a nuclear sub.

 

[GSCaupling]

I agree with rjoubert, although my first thought was he might have flown B-52s or something. Goin' to the Outer Bangs, perhaps

GS

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Their "fore" missed me, therefore their four-iron hit me, which is not what I was there for. It was an unfairway to start my day.[/navy][/small]

 

[kskid]

On a Range Rover:

JUST GO

 

[kskid]

Found this on the kansas.com website

http://www.kansas.com/628/gallery/542505.html

 

[AnotherHiggins]

kskid - I'm probably nitpicking, but I wouldn't consider that a "vanity plate" unless 204 has special meaning. I think of a "vanity plate" as being personalized with a custom number-letter sequence. I'd term that as a "specialty plate" which can be ordered by hundreds of people in the state. NC offers dozens of different specialty plates.

Yesterday I saw
[tab]LISNSPL8

Spoiler

License Plate

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[rjoubert]

Yesterday I saw
LISNSPL8

This thread has now come full circle. When I started the original thread (

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1462891&page=2),

I wrote about a similar plate. It had LI followed by the cent symbol, then PL8.

 

[flapeyre]

NUKEVET - maybe served on a nuclear submarine?

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[kskid]

Anotherhiggins,

Unfortunately, the first plate shown happened to be a specialty plate but all of the others were vanity plates.

For example, the next picture was GEZR500 on an "Old (Geezer) Ford 500" or one of the more recent with "2ND HRT" for a person that received a heart transplant.

-lw

 

[AnotherHiggins]

kskid: gotcha.

RE: NUKEVET - rjoubert, GSCaupling & flapeyre: good guesses - that should have occurred to me.

At lunch today I saw

[tab]TOPLSBRD

Unfortunately, the car didn't seem to have been driven by an Anglophile. But the plate was on a new convertible Thunderbird with the top down.

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[SamBones]

Saw this on a PT Cruiser...

4CROOZN

 

[GSCaupling]

I once saw PING on the back of a very red Ferrari parked in a grocery store parking lot. I have no idea what it meant, or why he drove a Ferrari to the grocery store.

KA-CHING would have made more sense.

GS

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[flapeyre]

PING - maybe the very successful owner of an internet service provider? Or maybe he works for Cisco?

Well, even Ferrari owners must eat. Maybe he likes to cook.

That reminds me of something I once saw in Car & Driver magazine:

Judging from the listings in the Milan telephone book, Ferrari is "Smith" in Italian.

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[CajunCenturion]

Maybe it's all about golf: Ping

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[flapeyre]

CC: I've indeed heard of Ping, but I'm not a golfer, so it didn't register. Good one.

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[GSCaupling]

And this from the morning paper: GAONMYMD

Spoiler

Georgia on my mind

GS

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Their "fore" missed me, therefore their four-iron hit me, which is not what I was there for. It was an unfairway to start my day.[/navy][/small]

 

[GSCaupling]

Well, even Ferrari owners must eat. Maybe he likes to cook.

Perhaps. But I'd be afraid of getting my doors al dente* in the parking lot.

GS


[purple]* the spelling should be right - I went to dictionary.com and used "cut & pasta."[/purple] Oh my, look at the time...

[small][navy]*********************
Their "fore" missed me, therefore their four-iron hit me, which is not what I was there for. It was an unfairway to start my day.[/navy][/small]

 

[rjoubert]

But I'd be afraid of getting my doors al dente* in the parking lot.

 

[rjoubert]

I saw this one on a nice Mercedes this morning: TKO MD - I'm guessing this one belongs to a doctor, but what kind of doctor? Maybe this person attends to combatants in a boxing match?