# Most Memorable Vanity Plates? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157 "2002-07-22T02:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/21 "2002-07-22T15:37:56Z")
Oh, another one which was featured in the SMH a few months ago. “ **BAA BAA** ” It was on a black Jeep. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 22, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/22 "2002-07-22T15:58:57Z")
In the subcategory of “Memorable because they’re so damn stupid”: THE CAR (you paid the extra fee for THAT??!?) Two sets of three letters each, obviously Ma and Pa’s initials Every PT Cruiser around here with a vanity plate has the same variant: PT CRUZER, OUR PT, CRUZIN. Ugh. We know it’s a PT Cruiser already. Get over yourself. Same for Beetles, New or old: MY BUG and so on. At least try to be a little clever, huh? Get a red one, paint black spots on it, and get LADY. (À la the BAA BAA on a black Jeep mentioned earlier – that’s cute!) In fact, let’s just broaden that to every car with a vanity plate that tells the model, information that you can get off the side of the car. EXCEPTION: Collector cars where one might wonder what make or year it is. This one floors us: A large local company apparently has some kind of quality program, similar to ISO, only theirs is called CFQ. They’ve encouraged their employees to get vanity plates with CFQ on them. So there are plates all over the Fox Valley with CFQ and various other letter/number combos. Mind you, (from what I hear) the employees aren’t compensated in any way for the extra expense of the vanity plate; they’re just supposed to do it as some kind of U Rah Rah for the company. It doesn’t even advertise the NAME of the company! These are some truly stupid people, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/23 "2002-07-22T16:41:14Z")
A man in my neighborhood hit the Virginia Lottery and has GOTLUKY on his Jaguar. A very attractive redhead here in town has a convertible 911 with U WISH. Yes, yes I do. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/24 "2002-07-22T17:21:16Z")
Here are two. A guy I went to high school with drove an old Willy’s pickup with about an 8-in lift and 35-in tires. It was pretty big. His license plate was **2HI4U2C** (too high for you to see). There is a woman in my hometown who drives a Dodge Caravan with the vanity plate of **ANALOVE**. I guess her name is Ana and someone loves her…but then maybe it is describing her other passion ;). ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/25 "2002-07-22T17:32:03Z")
On a new VW Beetle: **FEATURE** ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/26 "2002-07-22T17:51:26Z")
I don’t remember the car, but it said **ANSR 42** ---
**Author:** ![GKW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@GKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GKW)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/27 "2002-07-22T17:54:19Z")
I saw one today that appealed- LEGATO ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/28 "2002-07-22T17:55:38Z")
A friend of mine has: **LCNSEPL8** If you know him, it’s funny. Otherwise it’s just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/29 "2002-07-22T18:12:42Z")
I saw one this weekend that had me in awe re: its originality. It read BMW X5 and it was on the back of a, you guessed it, BMW X5. Thanks, pal, just in case I didn’t see the big BMW symbol and the X5 on the right, there’s your handy plate to remind me. [tangent] I _so_ want an X5 4…6is. Volvo’s finally lauching their SUV though, so I might wait. But then again, Volvo’s owned by (ick) Ford now. Well, Ford owns _both_ my cars, now, so what’s the diff. Hmmmm, well my cars were manufactured before Ford bought 'em, so that doesn’t count… [/tangent] ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/30 "2002-07-22T19:46:02Z")
my former (computer progamming) boss has the license plate “2B OR D4”. (In hexadecimal, the logical NOT of D4 (212) is 2B(43). So D4 is NOT 2B, so it’s 2B or NOT 2B) ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/31 "2002-07-22T19:48:33Z")
I saw “FNORD” on a mustang (I think) here in Austin. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/32 "2002-07-22T19:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Booker57 \* > \*\*What state lets you have that on a plate? \*\* * * * Actually, it was on the frame around the plate. Frame phrases are also allowed in this thread, now that I see how I’ve screwed it up. 😉 California, to answer your inquiry. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/33 "2002-07-22T20:47:33Z")
I recently saw a license plate which said **COPSKID**. I guess they were trying to avoid parking tickets and getting busted for speeding. Rick ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/34 "2002-07-22T20:51:56Z")
On a dark BMW sedan in Times Square, just after it sped around a corner just missing me and a friend: RIP GDG GDG being my initials, naturally :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/35 "2002-07-22T21:03:56Z")
My friends and I were (drunkenly) walking through Fells Point, Maryland, when we happened upon a beautiful red Spyder. I mean this thing was gleaming and new. The vanity plate that caused us to seriously consider despoiling it in some way? **SUX2BME** :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/36 "2002-07-22T21:29:44Z")
On a white VW Rabbit convertible: **IML8IML8** ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/37 "2002-07-22T21:58:02Z")
> [@](#): > > My friends and I were (drunkenly) walking through Fells Point, Maryland, when we happened upon a beautiful red Spyder. I mean this thing was gleaming and new. The vanity plate that caused us to seriously consider despoiling it in some way? > > SUX2BME I know that car! It’s always parked at the corner of Thames and Broadway, right by the Admiral Fell Inn. I think the driver owns a store around there or something. It’s always good for a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/38 "2002-07-22T23:03:37Z")
Driving on the highway in Colorado years ago, I could see in my rearview mirror a vintage, bright green VW Beetle lane-hopping behind me. As it quickly cut in front of me and then hopped back over to the other lane a few seconds later, I could read the plate, and almost wasn’t annoyed anymore…MYFROG. I took my mom in for eye surgery last week, and in the parking lot, on the anestheseologists car…NOKUOUT. There is a gentleman who works in the same building as I do who has a definite chip on his shoulder about everything: his ex-wife, his job, his race, his size, his entire lot in life. Never a kind or considerate word. If you are in line two seconds after his clock ticks 5:00, even if your watch says two minutes to five, he will bellow at you that he closed at five p.m. as if you were rudely banging on the door a half-hour after closing…even if he’s still waiting on someone. He feels the world has it in for him. The plate on his car? POWRLS (powerless) ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/39 "2002-07-22T23:10:10Z")
I saw a motorcycle with the vanity plate RGASM. I have no idea how that got by the sensors. A local urologist has - CME2P (I love that one!) ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157/40 "2002-07-22T23:23:49Z")
Or, one that has apparently been seen on one of those light green VW Beetles in the Seattle area: APHID 😃 * * * \<\< “Women: Can’t live with them, can’t bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.” —Sean Williamson. \>\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-vanity-plates/120157.md?page=3)