anti-vanity plate

[cos]

Not the plate I'd want on my car...

... I wonder if the owner noticed?

[ Spotted on North Harvard @ Soldiers Field Road, January 7, 2006 ]

Comments

[somehedgehog.livejournal.com]

DOH.

[gingerkat.livejournal.com]

Not good advertising, especially if they are trying to find a date.

[cos]

It occurs to me this could make a great call-in to Car Talk :)
They frequently get callers asking about the right car to choose to make it easier to get a date.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yowch! Well, uh... early disclosure?

[xthread.livejournal.com]

Honesty in advertising?

[superfinemind.livejournal.com]

Hahaha...wow.

I saw a plate that made me wonder that recently... I forget.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Um, I have a Massachusetts plate ending in HPV. Wanna say something about it.

[cos]

I think I already did say it :)
("not the plate I would want on my car")

I am curious, though, if someone with that plate wanted to change it and asked the RMV, what the RMV's response would be.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I am curious, though, if someone with that plate wanted to change it and asked the RMV, what the RMV's response would be.

"Don't be a dipshit."

Just a wild guess.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

?

[ceo]

That's an old-style green plate, so they've had it for a while; it's probably on its second or third car..

I was sad that I wasn't able to keep my old green plate when we bought our current car. You have to be organized enough to get rid of the old car first.

Saw the plate "100 MEN" once. It matched the then-current pattern for MA plates, so it wasn't a vanity plate (you can't get vanity plates that match the pattern).

[cos]

I know, I have a "stealth plate" of the old style. They wouldn't allow 3 digits followed by 3 letters, but they would allow 3 letters followed by 3 digits, and most people don't notice the difference. Even a few police officers have been fooled into thinking it was a regular plate. But it's a great Internet-geek detector - they all spot it as a special plate :)

[japlady.livejournal.com]

bet they don't know what HPV is

YAY!

[listgirl.livejournal.com]

-I love it
-I want one.
-I hope they drive it proudly, right to the clinic each day, and then to the bar
-the DMV in AZ is the MVD wich always makes me laugh, because I tell people I have to go to "m'VD"

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if there's a list anywhere of which three-letter combinations are not permitted on license plates. Who makes the decision? Can they be bribed? How much state-to-state variation is there? Are there any states with four or more letters in a row on standard plates?

[bluesleeper.livejournal.com]

Oops, that last one was supposed to be me. For California, here is the list.

Note that it includes none of the following combos:

PMS
HPV
FUQ
SUQ
COQ
JIZ
NUT
DYK

"JIZ" and "DYK" are especially surprising omissions, from my perspective.

Christ, I feel like a nine-year-old who has just discovered that he can look up dirty words in the dictionary.