# Memorable license plates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553 "2014-07-07T17:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/1 "2014-07-07T17:42:44Z")
There are some license plates that are indelible in my mind. 5G8366: My first motorcycle, which I got when I was twelve. 1M7749: My second motorcycle, at 16. 1M7750: Dad’s matching motorcycle. TAA 951: My first car, a 1966 MGB Plus a few other of cars, and my California driver’s license number. Others I’ve seen: AU GHOTI: ‘Goldfish’ PLARUDE: Seen on a Honda Prelude. LENTAJA: (lentäjä, ‘pilot’) My mother’s husband emigrated from Finland, and he was a pilot. He had this on his car. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/2 "2014-07-07T18:02:01Z")
Just yesterday I saw **TAXMAN DUMBLDOR** ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/3 "2014-07-07T18:07:29Z")
Mine until recently: **JMNFOUS**. It was meant as “je m’en fous”, roughly French for “I don’t give a fuck”. I didn’t renew it when I got my new truck because I was really tight for cash. Just the other week I went to get it and someone else had snagged it! Now I think I’ll have to go with **JMNFCHE**. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/4 "2014-07-07T18:14:39Z")
Seen in Virginia Beach - **XQZMWAH** And a friend who owned a green VW Bug had the plate, **KERMIE** This one confused me at first - **SSECNIRP** Virginia has the most vanity plates in the US. I saw many clever ones when I lived there - I wish I could recall more of them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/5 "2014-07-07T18:16:47Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > Mine until recently: **JMNFOUS**. It was meant as “je m’en fous”, roughly French for “I don’t give a fuck”. I didn’t renew it when I got my new truck because I was really tight for cash. Just the other week I went to get it and someone else had snagged it! Now I think I’ll have to go with **JMNFCHE**. That reminds me of a guy I used to work with back in the ‘80s. His plate was LKN4TNA. He said it was ‘Lookin’ for T & A’, but got it past DMV by telling them it meant ‘Looking for Tina’. I met a guy who said he wanted MENMYRT on his ('60s? '70s?) R/T. There was a commercial in the '70s, several years earlier, for RC Cola whose jingle went ‘Me and my RC! Me and my RC!’ But the guy said people wouldn’t get it, and think it was ‘Men mert’. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/6 "2014-07-07T18:26:06Z")
I got mine past the DMV by saying it was “Jammin’ for the U.S.” I think in California they only know to check for Spanish obscenities. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/7 "2014-07-07T18:26:23Z")
not my plate number in the pic (don’t remember it), but I miss my [Texas Sesquicentennial plate](http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/a6/79/7c/a6797cb3c040a91a68cd35f97e8e08a4.jpg) on my old Camaro ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/8 "2014-07-07T18:46:44Z")
YOURN in New Hampshire. I met the owner. He was a urologist. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/9 "2014-07-07T18:54:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There are some license plates that are indelible in my mind. > > 5G8366: My first motorcycle, which I got when I was twelve. > 1M7749: My second motorcycle, at 16. > 1M7750: Dad’s matching motorcycle. > TAA 951: My first car, a 1966 MGB That amazes me! I don’t know any of my tag numbers, current or past. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/10 "2014-07-07T19:59:23Z")
BIKE - It’s on my current car. CYCLING - It was on my minivan. When all the kids were gone, we no longer needed the minivan and let it go. I almost switched CYCLING over to my current car, but it was too much of a hassle and cost. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/11 "2014-07-07T20:47:23Z")
I liked this one - [EATTHE](http://jalopnik.com/5724684/virginia-dmv-revokes-worlds-greatest-license-plate) - but it was revoked by the Virginia DMV. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/12 "2014-07-07T21:26:24Z")
I saw one recently (forget where it was from) saying IMNSANE. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/13 "2014-07-07T21:46:27Z")
Well, I didn’t see this one in person, but someone had a thread featuring it a while back [https://www.google.com/search?q=moose+%26+squirrel+license+plate&tbm=isch&imgil=7U8-JihRvR5HJM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcScGG7R5JJ0qOQrSdThAE7rQuLnNCVFhdrQJfW1Oy8BXCiCp7i\_-g%253B418%253B290%253BlUxR5OOh3675pM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Farnoldzwicky.org%25252F2013%25252F08%25252F14%25252Fmoose-plates%25252F&source=iu&usg=\_\_EDw5TXf78mvXjiYQ1wGZ7mxV9F4%3D&sa=X&ei=2BS7U83yD4GR8gHywIG4CA&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAg&biw=1024&bih=679#facrc=\_&imgrc=7U8-JihRvR5HJM%253A%3BlUxR5OOh3675pM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Farnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com%252FMooseSqirl.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Farnoldzwicky.org%252F2013%252F08%252F14%252Fmoose-plates%252F%3B418%3B290](https://www.google.com/search?q=moose+%26+squirrel+license+plate&tbm=isch&imgil=7U8-JihRvR5HJM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcScGG7R5JJ0qOQrSdThAE7rQuLnNCVFhdrQJfW1Oy8BXCiCp7i_-g%253B418%253B290%253BlUxR5OOh3675pM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Farnoldzwicky.org%25252F2013%25252F08%25252F14%25252Fmoose-plates%25252F&source=iu&usg=__EDw5TXf78mvXjiYQ1wGZ7mxV9F4%3D&sa=X&ei=2BS7U83yD4GR8gHywIG4CA&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAg&biw=1024&bih=679#facrc=_&imgrc=7U8-JihRvR5HJM%253A%3BlUxR5OOh3675pM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Farnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com%252FMooseSqirl.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Farnoldzwicky.org%252F2013%252F08%252F14%252Fmoose-plates%252F%3B418%3B290) ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/14 "2014-07-08T02:13:35Z")
Just last week I saw “24601” here in Kansas. (Jean Valjean’s number from _Les Mis_.) In California, quite some time ago, I saw “NGENTOT”. The word, pronounced “NYEN TOT”, is the Indonesian word for “fuck”. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/15 "2014-07-08T02:27:26Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > And a friend who owned a green VW Bug had the plate, **KERMIE** There used to be a green [Citroën 2CV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroen_2cv) driving around here with **KERMIT** on it. Another 2CV I occasionally saw had **FORSALE** on it’s rego plate. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/16 "2014-07-08T04:36:03Z")
The local drugstore’s delivery vehicle is a late-model VW Beetle. Its plate? **DRUGBUG**. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/17 "2014-07-08T13:49:54Z")
The older you get, the shorter your memory for recent plates. But you still remember the old ones. 628-907, my dad’s car in 1945 (I was 6 years old). Followed by 4-31414, and then D10-185. A good license plate buff will be able to sleuth out, from that, what state it was. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/18 "2014-07-08T16:06:19Z")
Whilst driving through Chicago I saw one that said Lvnitup. Like “Livin’ it up”. Seemed fun and it always stuck with me. I used to have Kikkit on mine because of the Beastie Boys, but now I just have numbers and stuff. I’ll get a new plate in about a year or so, I’ll switch to something fun methinks ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/19 "2014-07-08T16:37:45Z")
I was behind a BMW with the plate IMBMING. I suppose he meant _I’m Beaming_ but it looked to me like he was shitting himself. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553/20 "2014-07-08T16:40:33Z")
The 59 Edsel wagon I drove for what time during my youth I drove was **ARU-612**. My bike tag during those years and more was **B2764** (I spent a lot of time in motels and had to give the plate number, so its burned in my brain) Now everything has vanity plates DRK RD (Dark Ride) for the Sportie AM1SH (Amish Number One) for Bessie the Road Kow WVIEW PK (West View Park) on the Subaru. That one we inherited from my late BIL My favorite all-time plate is Martina Navratilova’s (x-CZECH) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-license-plates/692553.md?page=2)