# Funny vanity plates you've seen lately
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468 "2010-11-12T19:38:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/1 "2010-11-12T19:38:34Z")
We’ve done this before, I know.
Just this morning I saw a Smart Car with the license plate “CLWN CR.”
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/2 "2010-11-12T19:41:26Z")
We have a 66 Hearse with Belfry on it, does that count?
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/3 "2010-11-12T19:44:54Z")
There’s one I see around town a lot and I wonder how they slipped “RTFM NUB” past the DMV censors.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/4 "2010-11-12T19:53:53Z")
I swear I saw one that said “PAIDNCASH” but checking it now that’s over my state’s 7 character limit. But I know what I saw!
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/5 "2010-11-12T19:57:24Z")
> [@Valgard](#):
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> There’s one I see around town a lot and I wonder how they slipped “RTFM NUB” past the DMV censors.
Obviously I’m as clueless as the DMV censors.
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### Author:  [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/6 "2010-11-12T20:11:30Z")
> [@Valgard](#):
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> There’s one I see around town a lot and I wonder how they slipped “RTFM NUB” past the DMV censors.
Can you explain for those of us who aren’t part of the in-crowd?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/7 "2010-11-12T20:12:35Z")
I loved the classic florida plate: [A55 RGY](http://www.cartards.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/a55-rgy.jpg)
It had the state fruit displayed prominently between the 5 and the R
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/8 "2010-11-12T20:17:06Z")
> [@kath94](#):
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> Can you explain for those of us who aren’t part of the in-crowd?
“Read the fucking manual, noob.”
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/9 "2010-11-12T20:51:30Z")
I saw[this one](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dQuacLNyX8E/SY2kBIQVqVI/AAAAAAAACmg/-TvPORL_IrA/s1600-h/Titlegal.jpg) a few years ago.
TITLEGAL (for those who don’t trust links.)
Depending upon where you put the space, I’m not sure if the woman driving does title searches, or had her breast augmentation done by a certified surgeon.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/10 "2010-11-12T20:55:18Z")
DeHusband’s tag is DAIZD and mine is CNFUZD.
Why yes, we are dazed and confused, in so many ways.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/11 "2010-11-12T21:33:46Z")
Somewhere in my hometown, there’s a Chrysler PT Cruiser, tricked out to an astounding degree. The plate says **WANNABE.** It has fender skirts, “lakes pipes,” and chrome edges on everything you could imagine. It has a big eyebrow-sunshade at the top of the windshield, and matching hoods over the headlights.
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/12 "2010-11-12T23:10:06Z")
I saw one a couple of weeks ago that said
OMGMOVE
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/13 "2010-11-12T23:20:32Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> “Read the fucking manual, noob.”
That. It’s a stereotypical snotty response in the IT world to questions that should be answered in the documentation and implies that the questioner is an unskilled beginner.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/14 "2010-11-12T23:23:34Z")
Can’t recall if I shared before or not but I saw a Mini Cooper once with ESC POD. I still love it.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/15 "2010-11-12T23:33:02Z")
Not lately, but an English professor at my college had GHOTI. I was extremely jealous (even though I didn’t have a car at the time, heh). I’d love to snag that one someday.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/16 "2010-11-13T00:13:54Z")
I have to wonder… they allegedly screen out assorted swearing, etc, when taking requests for customized plates. How many languages do they check? Could I request a plate that had, say, a Basque or Sorbian or Lojban\* swearword, and expect that the request would be intercepted?
[sub]\*I have no idea whether Lojban even _has_ swearwords, but it’s the most obscure language I could think of…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/17 "2010-11-13T00:27:50Z")
Bright orange Mustang GT. Plate?
“CHEETO”
> [@Scarlett67](#):
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> Not lately, but an English professor at my college had GHOTI. I was extremely jealous (even though I didn’t have a car at the time, heh). I’d love to snag that one someday.
heh. Shouldn’t that have been “an Ongloti professor?”
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### Author:  [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/18 "2010-11-13T00:29:45Z")
I saw one on my birthday that said HPY BDAY
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/19 "2010-11-13T02:16:04Z")
In August, I was on my way to a Riders game at Taylor Field and saw an SUV with a vanity licence plate: “SK RDERS”.
Not unusual to see in Saskatchewan en route to a Riders game? Well, they were **Ohio** plates…
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/20 "2010-11-13T02:25:02Z")
I keep seeing a new VW with the license plate DAS BUG.
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