# A license plate I saw this morning. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399 "2009-02-18T14:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/41 "2009-02-19T10:02:47Z")
Free association vis a vis the OP: Kirk: Take us out of here, Scotty. Warp factor eleven. Spock: Warp eleven, Captain? Scotty: Well, it’s faster than ten, isn’t it? Was Nigel Tufnel’s girlfriend “a perfect 11?” ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/42 "2009-02-19T10:29:11Z")
Since I’ve never posted this, I will. No, I’m NOT going to search every license plate thread to see if it has been posted before: There was once a large, prosperous car manufacturer call Chrysler. Really! They once sold a line of cars call the Plymouth One model of Plymouth was called the Horizon In California, a blue Horizon was plated “Beyond” That is all - thank you and have a lovely evening ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/43 "2009-02-19T13:16:19Z")
In California the standard format for non-personalized liscence plates is: Number, Letter, Letter, Letter, Number, Number, Number I once saw a plate that read: **1YOU694** Now this is the standard format, so it is _possible_ that this was randomly assigned- which is what I find so fascinating: Hilarious if someone got it by accident while brillaint if it was chosen as a personalized plate (as being in standard format allows plausible deniability). So either a random “one wy oh yu six nine four” or a calculated “One for whom you sixty-nine”. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/44 "2009-02-19T14:14:18Z")
Since we - well some of us - are talking about Spinal tap, you should go to the bbc site and start up any of the videos (maximize volume). For instance [http://news.bbc.co.uk/](http://news.bbc.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/45 "2009-02-19T15:31:22Z")
One of the cars in my neighbourhood has this plate: IFXDX I’m guessing he’s either a Viagra salesman or a urologist. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/46 "2009-02-19T15:35:35Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > I’m still amazed at the one I saw the other day, at a Popeye’s Chicken in San Jose, CA: > > **2GRL 1CP** > > I’m not kidding. I can’t \*believe \*they let that one through. I would have snapped a camera phone pic of it, but there was a guy sitting in it so I didn’t think it would be wise. For the love of God, _why_? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/47 "2009-02-19T16:48:16Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > I haven’t actually seen the video, but I’ve heard enough about it to know (a) I don’t want to, and (b) it’s not the sort of thing you’d expect to be allowed on a license plate. 😕 Why wouldn’t they allow 2GRL 1CP on a license plate? I know what the video is - it’s horrible. But it’s just a title. The words aren’t offensive - they don’t even sound offensive. If they were to start disallowing anything that even sounds like it might be offensive, what would be the point? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/48 "2009-02-19T17:22:27Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] OMG, I have this exact complaint about an episode of _The X-Files_. Don’t remember which, but I’m pretty sure it’s Scully (I believe a well-established East Coast native character) who refers to that big interstate that goes up the coast as “the I-95.” [/QUOTE] YES! It was a Christmas episode, the one with the haunted house where the murder-suicide ghosts possess Scully and Mulder. Scully says it at the start of the episode, while sitting outside of the house in her car (or someone’s car, anyway). As you can tell I’ve seen that episode more than once, and it always drives me nuts: I always think, “What, there wasn’t a _single_ person from the East Coast on that set??” [QUOTE=Munch] Why wouldn’t they allow 2GRL 1CP on a license plate? I know what the video is - it’s horrible. But it’s just a title. The words aren’t offensive - they don’t even sound offensive. [/QUOTE] I completely agree with this. Anyone who “gets it” will just laugh or roll their eyes (or wish they’d thought of it), but anyone who doesn’t get it can’t possibly be offended. What’s the big deal? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/49 "2009-02-19T17:30:41Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I completely agree with this. Anyone who “gets it” will just laugh or roll their eyes (or wish they’d thought of it), but anyone who doesn’t get it can’t possibly be offended. What’s the big deal? Yeah, I guess you have a point there. I’ve just heard too many stories about things that even have a whiff of something offensive getting turned down, that it surprised me that one got through. Frankly, I don’t care what people put on their license plates. They’re just words, really. Even the four-letter ones. And there’s no law saying that people can’t put those same four-letter words on bumper stickers. Though I can certainly see the rationale behind it (especially with regard to racial slurs and such. I wouldn’t want to see somebody with the N word on their license plate, for example, but the F word wouldn’t particularly bother me. Everybody’s mileage is different, though.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/50 "2009-02-19T17:47:32Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > the F word wouldn’t particularly bother me. Now I want a bumper sticker that says, “My other frakkin’ car is a Viper.” ---
**Author:** ![Moccioso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@Moccioso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moccioso)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/51 "2009-02-19T19:08:32Z")
Having not heard of the video before, my first impression from 2GRL 1CP was “2 Girls 1 Cop” as in a way to get out of a ticket. OTOH, it might improve their chances of getting pulled over. Especially at night. On less populous roads. And if the car was full of babes then of course he’d have to call for backup. ---
**Author:** ![Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hero_From_Sector_7G)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/52 "2009-02-19T19:20:39Z")
This is always fun [A55 RGY](http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp) Only funny when seen, in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/53 "2009-02-19T19:27:56Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I completely agree with this. Anyone who “gets it” will just laugh or roll their eyes (or wish they’d thought of it), but anyone who doesn’t get it can’t possibly be offended. What’s the big deal? We had something like that at work. One of our employees had a picture of Towely on her shirt. I was going to ask her not to wear it again, but I figured anyone who caught the reference wouldn’t be (as) offended. I guess I should have made sure she wasn’t explaining it to people that didn’t get it. (BTW if, you don’t know what Towely is, it’s the worst character ever on South Park, a bath towel that smokes a lot of pot). > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Now I want a bumper sticker that says, “My other frakkin’ car is a Viper.” A few months ago, I saw a brand new black Dodge Viper (I’ve NEVER seen one on the road). The plate said SLYTHRN. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/54 "2009-02-19T20:04:57Z")
I once saw a plate that read **HWY2HEL** , which surprised me. I know most people don’t have a problem with the word “hell”, but as I am in Idaho people here do tend to be rather conservative and might get uptight about such expressions. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/55 "2009-02-19T20:16:20Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Now I want a bumper sticker that says, “My other frakkin’ car is a Viper.” Oh, the BSG geek in me _likes_ that. 🙂 Different show, but the other day I saw a license plate frame that said “The gorram reavers ate my gorram ship.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/56 "2009-02-19T21:07:50Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A few months ago, I saw a brand new black Dodge Viper (I’ve NEVER seen one on the road). The plate said SLYTHRN. > [@Misnomer](#): > > Different show, but the other day I saw a license plate frame that said “The gorram reavers ate my gorram ship.” [stereo geek out] Brilliant! Shiny! [/stereo geek out] ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/57 "2009-02-19T21:42:45Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A few months ago, I saw a brand new black Dodge Viper (I’ve NEVER seen one on the road). The plate said SLYTHRN. You also don’t see many Shelby Cobras in traffic, but I spotted one on the New Jersey Turnpike a few years ago. The license plate read **POISNUS**. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/58 "2009-02-19T22:29:51Z")
I know I’ve mentioned this one before, but there is a Ninja-type motorcycle around here with “NAZGUL” as it’s plate. And I have a pic in my phone right now of a car my son and I saw yesterday at the coffee place. It was a nice BMW being driven by an older lady (maybe 70)- the plate said “APOLOGY.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/59 "2009-08-19T13:45:34Z")
So the OP was February 19. I was just at a red light behind the same car again today. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399/60 "2009-08-19T14:08:39Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > I recently saw an Illinois plate that read W T F. No preceding or following digits – those three characters constituted the entire “number”. I saw a “WTF” plate in New Hampshire in about 2005. That’s another surprising one to get past the DMV, even in NH. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-license-plate-i-saw-this-morning/486399.md?page=4)