# Funny Licence Plates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118 "2003-06-06T16:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/21 "2003-06-07T00:21:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\* > Well, now its MINE! And it has “THEFIAT” as a licence plate. > We also have “DAS BMW” in keeping with the theme. > \*\* I’m not German, but isn’t it Der BMW? (und Fahrrad: die BMW?) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/22 "2003-06-07T00:54:48Z")
In the lot at school today: 01SPACE on an Odyssey WBKTHNG on a white Thing. The plate holder read “Sherman” along the top and “Mr. Peabody” along the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wolfgrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfgrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/23 "2003-06-07T01:21:40Z")
Just remembered another one… a few years back I saw one that said LUV BJS. I thought it was dirty until I realized I was in Ontario, so it most likely referred to the Blue Jays. Or at least I’m sure that’s what the driver tells people. ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/24 "2003-06-07T02:15:33Z")
A55 RGY ---
**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:** [June 7, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/25 "2003-06-07T02:41:46Z")
Saw a bright red Jaguar XJ8 convertible at work today. The license plate says PRRRRRR. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/26 "2003-06-07T06:02:48Z")
Plates here have a six character maximum, which makes the clever ones even better: 2NIL8U (on a muscle car) HIHOAG GET IN (on a 70s style panel van of the “don’t laugh, your daughter may be inside” variety). ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/27 "2003-06-07T15:07:51Z")
Around here, lots of people have University of Virginia liscence plates. They have a blue circle on the left with a big orange “V” inside the circle. My favorite liscence plate has this pattern, and reads “AGINA.” Hahahahah. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/28 "2003-06-07T16:54:55Z")
Funny _vanity_ plates? Too easy. I thought this was going to be a thread about accidentally funny plates. A coupla days ago, I saw an old grey beater that looked as though it was about to disintegrate. It had _Ontario_ plates on it which read “YMMV 432.” (Numbers not exactly as shown.) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/29 "2003-06-07T17:23:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by butrscotch \* > \*\*There was a well-known license plate incident in California some years back – a court reporter, using her steno machine shorthand (which uses groups of letters to substitute for other letters phonetically, in case anyone wondered how they do it), had a license plate that read: TP U BG – which, translated from the steno, read F U K. She insisted it was an abbrevation for “if you can.” Yeah, right. 😃 > \*\* And along similar lines years ago I saw **GHUQUE**. I didn’t get it but my sister started laughing and reminded me of Ogden Nash’s joke about spelling “fish” as “ghoti”. I bet they screen those things a little tighter today… ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/30 "2003-06-07T17:55:49Z")
“3M TA3” You have to see it in your mirror backwards. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/31 "2003-06-07T19:22:55Z")
I saw one the other day that read RTST4HYR…It took me about 5 minutes to figure out what it was inteded to say. I then cracked up, because this particular plate was on a BADLY souped up, ugly-decaled ricer car, with clashing decals relative to the car colour and one of those horrid blue lights around the license plate. No wonder he isn’t getting hired! ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/32 "2003-06-07T23:47:20Z")
I can’t wait to see somebody get OGSMASH or GOTCHAYA on their plate. ---
**Author:** ![Govindha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@Govindha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Govindha)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/33 "2003-06-08T02:21:23Z")
I saw “shidapnz” on a toyota while on the beltline… I thought that was worth mentioning. ---
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/34 "2003-06-08T04:48:49Z")
My sister spied a red Bug (the new kind) with a plate that said GUMDROP. Y’know, when you think about it, those things really do look like gumdrops. Or jelly beans. > [@](#): > > _Posted by sciguy_ > > But the funniest (to me) was when I pulled up behind a black Suzuki Samurai (you know, the ones that had a tendancy to tip?) with the plate “MOX JET”. Being the geek that I am, I found myself wondering whether a single black mana could be useful in a rollover… That rocks my socks, **sciguy**! 😃 Wonder if anyone in CA has taken MOXRUBY? Knowing my state, probably… ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/35 "2003-06-08T05:36:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Freiheit \* > \*\*A55 RGY \*\* [The orange is the icing on the cake](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/blueplate/assorgy1.html). There’s the old standby “FEATURE” found on a VW Bug. ---
**Author:** ![zany280](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecae2f/32.png) [@zany280](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zany280)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/36 "2003-06-08T07:24:44Z")
On a Vw Bug the plate said BUGOFF, but my favorite said simply SSA…it took me a minute then I saw it was ass backwards. I thought that was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118/37 "2003-06-08T12:12:58Z")
My friends dad had a plate which simply said “42”. I want one. I wanted to get one for my wife that said “EQWIDOW”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-licence-plates/180118.md?page=1)