# Dumbest Personalized License Plate Ever (Kinda Lame, But I Gotta Let This Out)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908 "2005-04-18T16:19:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/1 "2005-04-18T16:19:31Z")
Stupidity? Bad, but I forget about it minutes after it’s out of my sight. Stupidity combined with pretentiousness? It just sticks with me, pissing me off more and more.
Seen Saturday night in the parking lot of our local PathMark – a BMW with a New York license plate reading “BMW OWNR”.
_No. Fucking. Shit._
What’s the matter, was IST8DAOBVUS too long?
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/2 "2005-04-18T16:25:51Z")
We can’t think that he is _gasp_ leasing it, now can we? Imagine the indignity.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/3 "2005-04-18T16:32:12Z")
Dishonorable Mentions:
'02 Mustang - “GT NOT”
'01 Thunderbird - “WOW HOT”
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/4 "2005-04-18T16:32:58Z")
The dumbest to date… “PORSHA”.
On a… guess… just guess… :rolleyes:
The one that made me laugh out loud was “WTUPDG”. 😃
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/5 "2005-04-18T16:38:46Z")
To counter that one, I must tell you that there is a Corvette in Southern California with plates that read: A VET BFD. 😃
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/6 "2005-04-18T16:40:12Z")
A clever counter example:
On a Mini Cooper: “EX SUV”
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### Author:  [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/7 "2005-04-18T16:40:25Z")
How about DUH-8…um… no wait, that’s the one the Registry office _gave_ me. ☹
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/8 "2005-04-18T17:01:39Z")
Guess what kind of car this one was on: “PTCRSR”
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/9 "2005-04-18T17:02:36Z")
I saw a van (not a mini-van, a full-size one) with a license plate of **I8 URSUV**.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/10 "2005-04-18T17:13:17Z")
My award, for the category of Self-Acknowledge Pretention, goes to the Saab with the plate that said “SNAAB”. Laughed right out loud, I did.
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/11 "2005-04-18T17:17:20Z")
My favorite was a few years back when I saw a car with the license plate **MENSA8** …that had the gas cap open as it drove down the street.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/12 "2005-04-18T17:24:33Z")
This one graces our small town:
THE CAR
I win. (They paid extra money for THAT?)
(Dishonorable mentions: husband/wife initials, any PT Cruiser with PT or some variation of “CRUZ,” the year/model of the car)
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/13 "2005-04-18T17:38:43Z")
I remember seeing **4U2NV** on some fancy-schmancy German import about fifteen years ago.
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### Author:  [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/14 "2005-04-18T17:42:46Z")
Well, don’t want to change the tone of this thread, but I got one for the Sickest Personalized Plate. _Washington Post_ humor columnist Gene Weingarten claimed he saw a car with the following: “ **ZYKLONB** ”
He wouldn’t joke about something like that (not his sense of humor).
I don’t know if they have guidelines for controversial names in whatever state this guy got his plate from, but if they did, I could see how he got away with it. How many people do you think actually know what Zyklon B is, of the top of their head? And if they don’t know it, how many would think it would be an offensive thing. It sounds like some sci-fi planet name a nerd would put on his car.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/15 "2005-04-18T17:45:40Z")
Wasn’t that the gas used by the Nazis?
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/16 "2005-04-18T18:13:50Z")
It may have been in New Jersey that a man was turned down for the ZYKLONB plate, sued on free-speech grounds, and lost.
But Virginia, [I know for sure](http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=428&sid=420649) (from googling) has rejected it.
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### Author:  [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/17 "2005-04-18T18:24:26Z")
I saw this one the other day:
MTYGOD 1
I took it to mean that the car’s owner thought the car was a mighty god. Which seems awfully pretentious. 😉
The state issued me a plate that read C10 FRT. For 5 years my van was the “fartmobile”.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/18 "2005-04-18T18:32:53Z")
I see this one in San Francisco from time to time. It pretty much makes me want to chase him down and beat him to death. It’s a 7 series BMW: **NOT LUCK**
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### Author:  [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/19 "2005-04-18T18:36:52Z")
> [@interface2x](#):
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> My favorite was a few years back when I saw a car with the license plate **MENSA8** …that had the gas cap open as it drove down the street.
Har har
I did a project in Phoenix a few years ago and one of the IT guys had a similar plate, MENSA space something. Every once in awhile I’d point how how he spelled “Mesa”\* wrong. He’d get all bent. “IT’s MENSA. MENSA. It’s an organization I belong to … blah blah blah.”
I’d have a good private laugh. He never caught on.
\*Mesa is a suburb of Phoenix
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/20 "2005-04-18T18:37:06Z")
> [@Dooku](#):
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> I see this one in San Francisco from time to time. It pretty much makes me want to chase him down and beat him to death. It’s a 7 series BMW: **NOT LUCK**
There’s a book (or series of books) about how to make your business succeed called **It’s Not Luck**. I wonder if that’s related?
Anyhow, perhaps if I ever own a BMW, I will get a personalized plate that reads “BMW PWNR”.
(Oh, and I think “THE CAR” is a hilarious plate.)
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