# Is this a vanity plate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121 "2007-10-26T15:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/21 "2007-10-26T22:06:48Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] Plates can’t have lowercase letters, can they? Was it “GODIS25”? Because that could be other things. Like “Go Di’s 25”, which might mean something to the owner. [/QUOTE] Right, no lower case, that was just me being neat. But the spaces were definitely there. “GOD IS 25” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/22 "2007-10-26T23:07:47Z")
I think it may be a reference to Isaiah 25. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/23 "2007-10-26T23:25:31Z")
First thing I thought of when I saw it was “Neo-nazi.” I’d love to be wrong, but that strikes me as the most likely interpretation, unless it’s something so entirely personal that no one outside of the driver and his immediate social circle could possibly know what it refers to. I generally don’t like personalized plates, but I’ve seen three in the last couple years that I liked: LCNZPL8 1D6 DMG And, I swear I’m not making this one up: DRUNK ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/24 "2007-10-26T23:37:35Z")
I liked: IOU1NA. A few years ago, a friend and I tried to come up with the vanity plate that would result in the most traffic stops. I think we settled on “COPKLLR.” > [@](#): > > LCNZPL8 I don’t get it. Edit: Ohhhhhh. I do get it. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/25 "2007-10-26T23:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I think it may be a reference to Isaiah 25. [/QUOTE] Would this be widely recognized as the reference? Why this passage in particular to put on a plate? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/26 "2007-10-27T00:32:39Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees plates and wonders the same thing. My instinct is that it’s GOT to be. Are the plates in your state usually six characters? And are they usually in a number, number, letter letter, number number format? Maybe the car is being driven by Howard Hollis and he graduated or did something remarkable in 1988. [/QUOTE] I used to be a plate spotter, or at least interested observer, and yesterday (in N.C.) saw a plate from Massachusetts (where I used to spot them) and it had two numbers at the front of the number, two numbers at the back of it, and two letters (DD) in the middle. No dash. Looked strange but was not a vanity plate. . ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/27 "2007-10-27T00:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] If I had that license plate, I would be so tempted to put it on upside-down. [/QUOTE] Like OLE LEE did, years ago, with his 337 370 plate, according to Readers’ Digest. . ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/28 "2007-10-27T00:50:45Z")
[QUOTE=VarlosZ] A few years ago, a friend and I tried to come up with the vanity plate that would result in the most traffic stops. I think we settled on “COPKLLR.” [/QUOTE] I remember reading about a guy who had VOID (or BLANK, or something to that effect) as a license plate and got a brazillion tickets and citations where there was no license indicated. I think it even said some states were forbidding those plates. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/29 "2007-10-27T01:50:53Z")
You’ve spotted a member of the Illuminati! ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/30 "2007-10-27T02:20:34Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] 1D6 DMG [/QUOTE] I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/31 "2007-10-27T02:24:56Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] 1d6 dmg is directions in some roleplaying games to roll 1 six-sided die for damage from a weapon or action. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/32 "2007-10-27T02:28:43Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] 1d6 dmg is directions in some roleplaying games to roll 1 six-sided die for damage from a weapon or action. Awesome. [/QUOTE] Ah, gotcha. I don’t play them, but I may still have to cash in my geek cred for failing to recognize the “1d6”. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/33 "2007-10-27T12:45:18Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] 1d6 dmg is directions in some roleplaying games to roll 1 six-sided die for damage from a weapon or action. Awesome. [/QUOTE] What kind of a crappy paper car is that that only does 1d6 of damage? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/34 "2007-10-27T17:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] I remember reading about a guy who had VOID (or BLANK, or something to that effect) as a license plate and got a brazillion tickets and citations where there was no license indicated. I think it even said some states were forbidding those plates. [/QUOTE] My dad worked with a guy who had that problem with NONE. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/35 "2007-10-27T18:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] First thing I thought of when I saw it was “Neo-nazi.” I’d love to be wrong, but that strikes me as the most likely interpretation, unless it’s something so entirely personal that no one outside of the driver and his immediate social circle could possibly know what it refers to. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Most likely a neo-Nazi, since the association is strong enough that Target had to pull clothing with “88” on it after finding out that is what it means to a lot of folks. > **[88 (number)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_%28number%29#Neo-Nazi_symbol)** > > 88 (eighty-eight) is the natural number following 87 and preceding 89. 88 is: 88 and 945 are the smallest coprime abundant numbers, since all abundant numbers less than 945 are multiples of 2, 945 has 3, 5 and 7 as divisors, and 88 is the first abundant number that doesn't have 3, 5 or 7 as divisors. 88 symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture, since the word 8 sounds similar to the word fā (發, which implies 發財, or wealth, in Mandarin or Cantonese). The number 8 is considered to be the... ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/36 "2007-10-27T18:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=lavenderviolet] Agreed. Most likely a neo-Nazi [/QUOTE] This was an assigned parking spot, one of eleven, at Harvard Medical School. That’s got to be a pretty high up professor or administator. I don’t see a person like that being a neo-Nazi. Of course, a student there might disagree. Then again, I saw the SUV only once, and it was gone for the rest of the day. And I’d never noticed it before. Maybe it was parked there illegally. That’s pretty congruent with what a neo-Nazi would do. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/37 "2007-10-27T19:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=VarlosZ] I don’t get it. Edit: Ohhhhhh. I do get it. [/QUOTE] I don’t… ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/38 "2007-10-27T19:26:03Z")
I’ve seen a few of those. Including I11II11 sort of things. They’re designed to screw with license plate cameras. I’ve also seen bumpers where the plate is shifted to the left side and tilted up at a 45 degree angle, for the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/39 "2007-10-27T19:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I don’t… [/QUOTE] “License plate”. It’s phonetic. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121/40 "2007-10-27T19:45:42Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > What kind of a crappy paper car is that that only does 1d6 of damage? It’s the _license plate_ that only does 1d6, not the car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-vanity-plate/424121.md?page=3)