# Funny vanity plates you've seen lately **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/21 "2010-11-13T02:29:22Z")
There were a couple cars that parked near the place I lived 2 apartments ago that had SPQR ## plates. I burned with envy every time I saw one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/22 "2010-11-13T03:06:15Z")
Will someone please explain what RTFM NUB is without insulting me? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/23 "2010-11-13T03:18:24Z")
WEWEDOC ::snerk:: ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/24 "2010-11-13T03:21:17Z")
Someone already did. There is one near my apartment that reads 4 nick 8, obviously the checkers weren’t paying much attention that day. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/25 "2010-11-13T03:30:06Z")
Recently on Failblog they had a (win) picture of the license plate VLAD THE on an Impala. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/26 "2010-11-13T03:56:05Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > 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? Back in the early 1990s, in California, there was a license plate that read “NGENTOT”. That is the Indonesian word for “fuck” (pronounced “nyen tot”). As to “RTFM NUB”, it means, “Read the fucking manual, noob” (as has already been 'splained.) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/27 "2010-11-13T04:03:07Z")
My mom’s a pagan and believes in supernatural crap (pretty much the polar opposite of me). But she managed to snag the license plate GHOSTLY. I still think the plate’s pretty cool. I would never get a vanity plate myself though. Anything that makes your car stick out makes it more likely to be pulled over, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/28 "2010-11-13T04:10:22Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > 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. I believed you at first, but something seems fishy about your post. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/29 "2010-11-13T06:06:57Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > heh. Shouldn’t that have been “an Ongloti professor?” WIN. This is all kinds of awesome. Bravo, good sir or madam, as the case may be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/30 "2010-11-13T08:16:54Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > . Shouldn’t that have been “an Ongloti professor?” OK I get the ghoti one, but this I don’t get. I saw a purple Taurus with plate HAZE. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/31 "2010-11-13T08:22:18Z")
Shiny new BMW, attractive young woman driving it: THX DAD ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/32 "2010-11-13T17:36:11Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > OK I get the ghoti one, but this I don’t get. Apply the same pronunciation rules to “Ongloti” that you do to “ghoti.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/33 "2010-11-13T18:02:52Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/34 "2010-11-13T18:06:05Z")
I find the religious ones annoying. I am still trying to figure why anyone would have AUNT MOO. Yes, I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/35 "2010-11-13T19:08:47Z")
I have a bunch. JAUNE on a yellow Bug. AK47 4ME on a Pontiac something-or-other BSHEIRT (Yiddish for “destiny”) on a Hyundai Sonata MR PIE on a car belonging to the guy who owns a local pizza shop ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/36 "2010-11-13T19:34:35Z")
I see P19 FRM about the place quite often. Agriculture’s big round here. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/37 "2010-11-13T19:56:07Z")
**AZ38KR** Who thinks that’s funny? And I saw **YDD 348** as well as **JUH 899** duh!!? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/38 "2010-11-13T20:02:33Z")
[What.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatWhat) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/39 "2010-11-13T20:19:19Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > MR PIE on a car belonging to the guy who owns a local pizza shop So when he comes back, he really does bring pie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468/40 "2010-11-13T20:27:06Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > 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. A FOAF (or rather the employee of a friend) has started getting a lot of looks when she changed her plates to BIG RIGS. It’s not that she was well endowed, she’s a truck dispatcher. My favorites (all plates that I actually saw and took the pictures of) [MRTH MBL](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/JoeyJoeyPP/audi2.jpg), but no one I showed it to actually understood it. ☹ [GOES 2 11](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/JoeyJoeyPP/goes211.jpg) and, I thought there was another one…guess not. I have a picture of one that says SHROOMS, but that’s hardly worth uploading. ETA, my favorite was on a Black Dodge Viper, only time I’ve ever seen one on the road, SLYTHRN [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-vanity-plates-youve-seen-lately/560468.md?page=3)