# Fun with license plates! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979 "2004-06-12T15:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/41 "2004-06-15T16:13:25Z")
If I drove an Omni, the plate’d read POTENT. Be great advertising if I were male. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![quilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/42 "2004-06-18T02:48:57Z")
(with apologies for being late getting back to this…) > [@Queen Tonya](#): > > Subaru=SUBA ME ? My feeble brain promptly began to sing: Suba-ru, Suba-me, Suba-ru, Suba-rah-ha-ha-ha My knapsack on my back. (Perhaps I’d better go back to being tardy!) ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/43 "2004-06-19T17:53:20Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > SUBARU=SWAN > > Their logo depicts the constellation Cygnus. Sorry. No. Pleiades. Located in Taurus. Did a google search. 7sisters works. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/44 "2004-06-19T18:37:53Z")
It’d be kind of obscure for most people, but you could name your Subaru .HACK// (The .hack// series is a bunch of anime and games that chronicle a bunch of players who are part of a virtual reality MMORPG that’s becoming a little _too_ real. It’s sort of _The Matrix_ as done by D&D Geeks. :D) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/45 "2004-10-22T00:22:14Z")
Toyota PRIUS but with a karet under it between the I and the U and above it AP ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/46 "2004-10-22T02:25:00Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > My sister has a Toyota Tacoma. I wonder if I could sneak AROMA license plates on it? The city for which the truck was named was once know for its pulp mills and the resulting smell. The locals called it the Tacoma Aroma. Tacoma born and raised. It’s called The Aroma of Tacoma, not Tacoma Aroma. And yes, the owner of a Toyota Tacoma that lives in Tacoma has a vanity plate that reads AROMA. It was on the front page of the Tacoma paper shortly after the Tacoma first went on sale. The truck even had a couple of skunks painted on the tailgate. And the phrase was popularized from a ditty that was played on the local stations in the area in the early 70’s. The song was Godzilla Ate Tukwila. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/47 "2004-10-22T02:36:08Z")
I still love the plate I saw in the parking lot at one of my former jobs. It was a SAAB. The license plate said “SNAAB” One of those literal “Laugh out loud” moments. My contribution: Honda Odyssey: 2001SPC ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/48 "2004-10-22T02:45:18Z")
I guess since I own a Honda Accord I could get a plate that said HELSINKI ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979/49 "2004-10-22T14:07:06Z")
My wife drives a Mazda Tribute. How about a plate that says TARRY? The Tribute is essentially identical to the Ford Escape. I can’t quite come up with a way to squeeze “PINACOLADA” to fit on one of those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-license-plates/249979.md?page=2)