### Author:  [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/105 "2005-04-20T23:05:18Z")
I used to see a red Ferrari in the parking lot of my gym that said “RM 4 A GRL.” If that doesn’t scream “mid-life crisis,” I don’t know what does.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/106 "2005-04-21T14:37:23Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#):
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> Saddest personalized license plate I’ve ever seen was **CHMOD 777**.
Along those lines I saw one with “VAXVMS”.
I hope the guy surrendered those by now.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/107 "2005-04-21T15:15:41Z")
> [@infamousmom](#):
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> I ride a cobalt blue Vespa ET-4 with a tag that says NEL BLU, but nobody gets it. \
At least it isn’t a blue Pinto! 😃
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/108 "2005-04-21T15:44:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by **Scarlett67** :_
> You poor deprived child.
Good God! **Scarlett** , that link is LOADED with adware and spyware and all kinds of other shit. Christ. I’m still cleaning off my machine. Please check for that or post a warning or something next time. Arrgh.
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### Author:  [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/109 "2005-04-21T15:52:54Z")
I haven’t seen many vanity plates here - the only one I heard of that really made me laugh was the porn star Fiona Richmond’s car - FU2.
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_378806.html](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_378806.html)
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/110 "2005-04-21T15:55:16Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#):
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> Along those lines I saw one with “VAXVMS”.
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> I hope the guy surrendered those by now.
No way, he’s clutching those with all his strength, just like he’s holding onto those technologies, knowing that somewhere, someone needs him 😉
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/111 "2005-04-21T16:00:23Z")
I just saw a plate a week ago that said “ILUMIN8”.
Bad enough that one of our newest neighbours drives a tiny little brown van with a bumper sticker that says “I fling poo.”
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### Author:  [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/112 "2005-04-22T13:44:56Z")
I once saw some sort of sports convertible with the plate: M5 ORAL. I had to wonder if she was: boasting; advertising; or explaining how she got the car.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/113 "2005-04-22T17:02:52Z")
> [@Imasquare](#):
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> Don’t all personalised plates basically say the same thing regardless of how they are spelt? (ie WANKER)
Actually, I saw one this morning that was kind of clever in how it summed up personalized plates: **ME ME ME**
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/114 "2005-04-22T17:10:56Z")
Best plate I saw was a BMW with “WAS HIS”.
Still makes me chuckle to this day.
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### Author:  [@Lola\_Granola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lola_Granola)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/115 "2005-04-22T17:35:28Z")
The reason I got vanity plates is because I’m dyslexic. It’s the only way I can remember my plate number! Well, in my case, it’s letters…
ISELLEX
My mother in law thought it meant “I sell extra small.” Nope.
I sell excess.
I was gonna get my buisness name once, untill I noticed it would spell out a diffrent meaning entirely. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/116 "2005-04-22T22:23:10Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#):
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> …a tiny little brown van with a bumper sticker that says “I fling poo.”
Wow. Your plates up in WA allow nine characters? I thought seven characters on ours in MT looked crowded enough. Or do they allow more in a case like that because it has two "I"s in it?
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/117 "2005-04-22T22:26:27Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> Wow. Your plates up in WA allow nine characters? I thought seven characters on ours in MT looked crowded enough. Or do they allow more in a case like that because it has two "I"s in it?
The answer lies in the line you quoted. 😉
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/118 "2005-04-22T22:42:11Z")
I’m asleep at the wheel, **Anastasaeon**. I will pay more attention next time.
I’ve always wanted to write a full sentence across my back bumper in the exact color and font of a license plate, and let the plate sit in the middle of it filling in six or seven letters. Kind of an überbumpersticker. I wonder if that’s illegal?
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### Author:  [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/119 "2005-04-23T02:06:26Z")
While wandering Boston, I once encountered a black Volkswagon Rabbit with the vanity plate “FU INLE”. I hung around for a few minutes hoping to compliment the owner, but had to leave before s/he appeared.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-personalized-license-plate-ever-kinda-lame-but-i-gotta-let-this-out/299908/120 "2005-04-23T17:25:46Z")
One of my friends’ girlfriends had a randomized license plate with your standard 6 letter-number combination, except in Florida, there are usually 3 letters on one side of the plate together.
In her case, it spelled “FEA”. Why this would be acceptable in Florida is beyond me, but it should probably be avoided like the “ASS” combination, for instance, by the randomization computers\*. I did notice, however, that she had a different tag the last time I saw her car, so maybe they relented and replaced her number.
However, the avoidance algorithms might only go so far: I did work with someone who had a (random, I should hope,) tag that was “A55 FKL”. I’m not sure what an “Ass Fuckle” is, and I don’t wanna know.
\*“fea” means “ugly” in Spanish.
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