I have seen the following vanity plates. I have to wonder what the hell goes through people’s heads when they decide this is how they want to convey themselves to the world…
FLATUL8 - Um, yeah.
SPAM - Maybe you are a Monty Python fan, but the rest of us are thinking of e-mail and fighting the urge to key your car.
URUGLY - Apparently, IMNASS was taken.
DUI - Yoohoo! Officer!
Please add your favorite examples of awful vanity plates.
Only one that I can think off of the top of my head, but it rubbed me the wrong way every time I saw it, which was frequently, as it belonged to one of my neighbors.
KPT WMN
On a new Jaguar driven by a 22 year old blonde bimbette who lived in a $1.5 million penthouse apartment.
Lord, I’m glad we moved.
I don’t know about “awful” but this one made me think “that lady is asking to get dumped in a shallow grave”
Xpd4it
I don’t mind the awful ones, but the ones that you JUST can’t figure out (they must have put some family joke or something) just drive me nuts. You drive along behind the guy going “BFS22S”???
Before?? No, Breakfast?? no…Biffy’s? No??? ARGGGGGHHHHH, at LEAST put a translation on your license plate holder…SHEESH!
Shoot, I almost forgot this one. Everytime I saw it I would think “that CAN’T possibly mean what it looks like it means”.
It was:
44DD7in
(44 double D’s and a 7 incher?), that just CanNOT be, weird, weird people.
CanvasShoes: I can’t believe your mind came up with that one! You should work for the DMV. And I thought I was bad for seeing BTWIND as “butt-wind” aka fart (I was later told they had twins :rolleyes: )
TeaElle: Reminds me of one I’ve seen in a nearby wealthy town on a BMW: THXHNY. Yours is worse though. 
Here’s another one I’ve seen that I personally don’t find awful, but surely could offend people…
SUBALU (You can guess what make of car that was…)
Here in CT, I saw a French-made car with vanity plate that read:
OMERDE (which would translate to “Oh shit”
I found it quite amusing, so maybe this isn’t the thread for it.
What makes it funny is, that in CT, we have people who check vanity plate applications very, very carefully for any sign of inappropriateness.
This one got through, much to my delight.
If you do theater in this country, before you go on stage, people backstage - instead of wishing you good luck - which is bad luck - will tell you to “Break a leg.” In France, I’m told they spit on you (ever so slightly, I’m sure) and say “Merde.”
Around here, an egotist with a Corvette wears the plate RUNVS (Are you envious?)
UGH, Perish the thought!!! It would drive me bonkers, I don’t do customer service, MUCH too impatient with idiots.
I swear though, this guy (couple??) lived at my apartment complex, and I could not for the life of me figure out what else it could be, other than that they were proud of certain portions of their prospective anatomies.
PLEASE, if anyone knows if it was some reference to driving, or car parts, ANYTHING, set my mind at ease.
BTW, the car was a rootbeer brown 4 door old sedan model, a ford or chevy IIRC.
Rather beat up too.
There’s this one, but it’s just a happy accident.
I once saw a license plate that read: SPLEENS.
Huh?
I can only imagine that the driver is a doctor who specializes in abdominal surgery.
I’ve seen 6UL DV8.
When I got my first car, I tried to get:
4Q
and
FA-Q
but the DMV turned me down (they were deemed “inappropriate.”)
A friend of mine tried to get DRUGHD (“Drug Head”) and was denied. So he applied for JRUGS and got it.
I went to school with a guy who had the fairly innocuous ENIGMA because he’d been in Intelligence in the military. However, he stopped getting those plates when some yokel gas station attendant came out and asked “Why do you have license plates that say ENEMA?”
A license plate on a convertable driven by a woman sported the vanity plate ‘WAS HIS’
I worked for a company in Pleasantville NY and there was a car I often saw in the lot with the plate
EVLWOMN
It always brought a smile to my face, but damn it, I never got to see that Evil Woman in her car.
My step-mom has the following plate:
BT LVR
Now, she got it because she loves Bostion Terriers (BT, get it?).
Everyone else thinks it means Butt Lover.
Saw a Toyota MR2 with this plate: MRNOT. I thought it was sorta witty.
I CAN’T STAND VANITY TAGS!
That said…my only current example to share is that our office’s computer tech has a vanity tag that says “TECHIE” on his brand new Mercedes SUV. OY!
Some woman at work has this on the front of her blue bug
IRBE"NO"
and on the back
FRUIT K’K
makes sense only to her
Here in the UK, vanity plates still have to fit the standard plate format, which until recently was A123BCD or ABC123D (with the number being anything from 1 to 3 digits long). So you had to get more creative:
MAG61E, MAG1C, BOO61E, ROB81E, V5EXY and (I’m sure they never issued this one) P155OFF.
Now they’ve spoilt the fun even more with new-format plates that have two letters, then a fixed two digits relating to the year (currently 53) then three digits. You try coming up with anything readable out of that…
RA53 CAR? RO53 BUD?