Vanity plates 13

[rjoubert]

I was driving behind a Honda this morning with a very clever vanity plate. It had the letters LI, followed by the cent symbol, then finished with PL8.

Have you seen any creative vanity plates lately?

 

[tcsbiz]

She's a brick houuuusssssse".

 

[KornGeek]

I once saw a car with the plate AVO VOM. I couldn't make sense of it. Shortly thereafter, it was behind me, and when I looked in my mirror I saw: MOV OVA. I laughed, and then politely let it pass as a thank you for the humor.

I recently saw one that read LDS FTW. The only interpretation I've come up with doesn't quite seem to fit. Maybe one of you can make more sense of it.

 

[SantaMufasa]

I recently saw one that read LDS FTW...Maybe one of you can make more sense of it.

Since your travels, I'm guessing, are typically are in the California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona region, I'll bet the license means:

Latter-Day Saint: Families That Work

Especially if the license was on a High-Occupany Vehicle <grin>.



In a similar vein, our license plate in California, on our 15-seat Dodge commuter van became rather recognisable, and a trademark for our family:

4R6KIDZ

Mufasa
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[AnotherHiggins]

I assume my first thought was also KG's:
[tab]Later Day Saints For The Win!

Hey, maybe they were just really hip Mormons.


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[SantaMufasa]

Latter-Day Saints For The Win!

That rather reminds me of the crass-as-usual Southpark sketch in the &quot;New-Intake Auditorium in Hell&quot;...Oops, off into the weeds...Forget I said that.

Mufasa
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[rjoubert]

On a related note...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371902,00.html

The funniest part of that article is the 3rd paragraph...

...the DMV officials got another surprise when they learned the same letters appeared on the agency's own Web site on a sample personalized plate.

DOH!

 

[Opieo]

Seriously, that is horribly lame about the plates.

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[SantaMufasa]

Here in Utah, it means What The Flip...Remember, This is The Place where Heck is where people go that don't believe in Gosh...<grin>

Mufasa
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[Bandenjamin]

Ya know it says they are offering to let people exchange em, not that they have to. That is purely beautiful

--Dan
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Mark Twain

 

[AnotherHiggins]

She can credit her grandchild if she wants to, but I'll forever be convinced that someone with the state saw my post here on Tek-Tips!!

We had a similar "trade out" option a few years ago here in NC with plates beginning KXK. From a distance, it looked quite a bit like KKK. Un-hip and/or inept employees at the DMV.... Whodathunkit?

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[SantaMufasa]

Some states are restricting license plates/tags that contain only random combinations of the letter "O" and the number "0" since it confuses photographic-traffic-enforcement systems.

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[Dollie]

I want a license plate that says O0O0O0O0 or 0O0O0O0O

 

[2ffat]

I notice that some NC plates are being recalled.

I once saw an unmarked police car with the plate COP #### (I don't remember what the numbers were). I've often wondered if that was by design or accident.


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[rjoubert]

Some states are restricting license plates/tags that contain only random combinations of the letter "O" and the number "0" since it confuses photographic-traffic-enforcement systems.

Ok, then how about some random combinations of the number "1", a lowercase "L", and a capital "I"? Like Il1l1I.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Welcome to the discussion, 2ffat!

The article to which you linked was previously posted by rjoubert at 26 Jun 08 6:31, and is what prompted my last post.

As for unmarked cars, many (or maybe all?) of our unmarked State Highway Patrol cars have license plates beginning with SHP. I'm quite sure that is by design.

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[flapeyre]

It used to be a problem in the old days when it came time to replace the plates on unmarked police cars (most places reissued all plates annually - no revalidation stickers).

An example from the 70's was when Green Bay, Wisconsin got ther new plates from the DMV for their unmarked cars - they all had the prefix PD.

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[SantaMufasa]

Green Bay, Wisconsin...unmarked cars...all had the prefix PD.

Ah, yes...the ol' marked-unmarked-car trick. <grin>

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[flapeyre]

As I recall, the police chief sent them back and asked for different ones.

Same kind of thing happened in New Orleans. Anytime you saw a plain Ford Galaxie 500 with a plate starting with 31B, you knew it was an unmarked car (the UHF antenna on the trunk lid, the blackwall tires with plain hubcaps, and a right-side mirror in an era where most cars did not have them, were other dead giveaways, though).

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[2ffat]

Hey! I'm slow but I admit it. ;-)


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[SantaMufasa]

Hey! I'm slow but I admit it.

Reminds me of the acute assessment by my high school football coach of my particular skills:

Hunt, you may be small, but you're slow.

Needless to say, I did not pursue my career in Professional Football.




Mufasa
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