Vanity Plates XII 5

[SantaMufasa]

Well, it's that time again...The previous thread exceeds 100 posts (and is rather slow to load). This means we're well over 1,200 posts for the "Vanity Plates" concept.

I'll start this thread off with this one seen on a pickup truck, driven by an attractive young Utah hunter/outdoorswoman. The plate, I'm certain, refers to the mechanism that was holding two scoped rifles in the back window of the truck:

CMYRACK

Mufasa
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[jozoe]

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[2ffat]

Jozoe,
[tab]Glad you cleared that up. I would have thought you were a fan of Geraldine (aka Flip Wilson).


James P. Cottingham
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[rjoubert]

Saw this one on the way into work this morning...
ROK CHIK

 

[rjoubert]

Unfortunately, I was behind someone in a small SUV with this plate...
NO HANDS
[rant] I was behind him at a light. When the light turned green, he made an illegal U-Turn (you can't even make a left turn at this particular light), and had to wait for the oncoming traffic to clear first (which, of course, held me up). If that wasn't bad enough, he didn't even use that new feature that vehicles have now...what do you call them? Oh yes, turn signals! [/rant]
I'm thinking he needs to change his plate to read, NO BRAINS.

 

[rjoubert]

I apologize for the rant in my previous post. I learned to drive in NY. Impatience behind the wheel is part of the driver education curriculum there.

 

[BadBigBen]

RJ, don't fret, I too would've been teed-off at that, and I learned to drive in Germany (where some of the highways (freeways) aka autobahns still do not have a speed limit, yeah!)...



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[N1GHTEYES]

Impatience. Hmm. Reminds me of my 2nd favourite true story ever.

A friend of mine was going into a shop. Just outside, a little hatchnack was waiting at a junction to a moderately busy road. There was a Range Rover behind the hatchback.

On her way out of the shop a couple of minutes later both cars were still there. My friend saw the driver of the Range Rover get out of his car and go over to the woman driving the hatchback. He leaned down and pointed to the sign at the junction, then shouted, "See that sign? It saves Give Way... not Give UP!!

Tony

 

[SamBones]

Saw this one this morning...

LY2CU

 

[Annihilannic]

Impatience. Hmm. Reminds me of my 2nd favourite true story ever.

I guess someone has to ask... what was the first favourite one, if it's not too far off-topic?

Annihilannic.

 

[N1GHTEYES]

Annihilannic, you asked so here goes...

Paul, another friend of mine, was cycling towards the university along Oxford Road in Manchester. If you don't know it, Oxford road is a very busy, major route into the city. Paul was quite a fit cyclist, so he was doing maybe 25mph ish, but the traffic still whizzed past.

It was a slightly wet day. Bike brakes don't necessarily work all that well in those conditions.

As he was approaching a junction on the left (with no intention of turning into it), a VW beetle passed him and immediately turned sharp left, right across in front of Paul, into the road on the left. Paul tried to brake sharply, but without much hope - this guy was very close. So he was left with 3 choices, none of them good.

1 - He could pull out and go round the guy - but with so little time available, he had no time to look if it was clear to do so, and in Oxford road traffic, that's just another form of suicide. 2 - He could try to do a haul turn, and wrench the bike round the corner inside the bug, also not brilliant as doing a 90° turn from 25mph on a damp road is generally not a fun activity. 3 - Or he could basically crash straight into the side of the guy.

He chose option 2, haul round inside the VW. He'd never tried such an extreme manouevre before and about 2/3 of the way round the corner he was pretty pleased with himself that he was doing it so well. Then the driver finally spotted him - and slammed on the brakes!!!. The bug stopped. Paul, obviously, didn't. Shortly thereafter, Paul got a badly bruised right arm and the car lost a wing mirror.

At this point the driver got out and came over to Paul who was feeling a bit stunned. Paul expected him to be apologetic. Instead the driver swore and started loudly berating Paul for removing his wing mirror. Paul then came up with my favourite off-the-cuff remark of all time.

After the driver finished swearing at him for removing his wing mirror, Paul just said, "What's the problem - you weren't using it."

It still makes me chuckle.

Tony

 

[IPGuru]

Even though I often find myself swearing about cyclists doing silly things* I do like this one & have sympathy for your friend.


* Example riding up hill 2 abreast on a major rd. which has a dedicated cycle path running along side.

I do not Have A.D.D. im just easily, Hey look a Squirrel!

 

[SantaMufasa]

I don't intend on hijacking the Vanity Plates thread, but since there is precedent for bicycle-accident stories, I'll share mine:

Cycling westbound on the four-lane A50 (Uttoxeter Rd.) from Blythe Bridge to Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. It was raining (as is often the case in the UK); I'm wearing a three-piece suit, travelling downhill at about 40 m.p.h. An articulated lorry (semi-truck) is passing me in the lane closest to me. At that moment, directly ahead of me in the roadway I see a storm-drain grid, but the grid openings are parallel to the roadway instead of perpendicular. With nowhere to go to avoid the grid, my front wheel drops, up to the axel, into the grid, instantly launching me airborne. My landing was face first, at about a 45[sup]o[/sup] angle to the roadway.

The lorry driver saw all of this via his sideview mirror. He thought he had run over me. Although I remained conscious, I didn't do any moving around until the ambulance arrived.

I ended up with badly road-rashed face and hands. Amazingly, my Hepworth's suit acted like body armour...not a thread pulled on the suit, nor a scratch on the parts of my body covered by the suit. After leaving hospital, I did, however, look like a bandaged-up mummy on the exposed parts. (And my bicycle tire looked like Pac-Man: )

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[N1GHTEYES]

On topic for a change...

In the UK, way back in the mists of ancient time, when I was no'but a lad, there was a well-known comedian called Jimmy Tarbuck. He had the number plate COM1C.

Tony

 

[SamBones]

Saw this on a black Corvette this morning...

TOO QUIK

 

[ponoodle]

I read a story about a vegan lady here in the States that wanted to express her fondness for tofu. It took her a while to figure out why her plate request for ILUVTOFU was rejected.

 

[flapeyre]

Lawrence Welk's vanity plate:
A1ANA2

-- Francis
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to the office.
--Robert Frost

 

[2ffat]

On an old pickup: WONT ME


James P. Cottingham
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[tcsbiz]

OBLADI was on an old VW van painted in the style of The Beatles Yellow Submarine album cover.

 

[CajunCenturion]

They should either send that VW van Back to the USSR, or Let it Be.


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[tcsbiz]

based on the condition of the van, they might be needing some Help soon.