# Odd License Plates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112 "2000-04-12T20:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/21 "2000-04-13T13:00:00Z")
I’ve always wanted a hearse so that I could get plates that said U NEXT or CYA SOON. I thought it would be fun to get 8 MYKIDS. (Except I don’t have any.) Two days ago I saw one that said 2BSY 2P. Perhaps the most irritating was on a white Honda driven by “daddy’s little girl”. It said MULAN, and the chrome frame said “They call me pretty pretty princess”. ACK! My favourite plate that I’ve seen is **A6M TYPE0** … on a **Mitsubishi**! Hahahahahaha! * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/22 "2000-04-13T13:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Johnny L.A.: > \*\* > > My favourite plate that I’ve seen is **A6M TYPE0** … on a **Mitsubishi**! Hahahahahaha! > > \*\* Ok, I know I’m a blonde and all, so forgive me. But I don’t get this one either. ??? 😕 * * * The Turtle Moves ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/23 "2000-04-13T13:54:00Z")
I can beat all of those. My father has, for years, been notorious in the Burlington area. He is a Vietnam vet, and has a handicap plate: CRIP. There is another guy in Burlington with GIMP. They wave to eat other. I saw a plate one time: IM1RU12 Loved it! ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/24 "2000-04-13T14:35:00Z")
I liked **EXDRUNK** and **QUACKDR** But my all-time favorite was **GSNDHT** Doesn’t make sense until you look above the plate (on the truck’s tailgate)and see **ISUZU** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/25 "2000-04-13T15:03:00Z")
aenea, it’s a reference to the Mitsubishi “Zero” fighter plane that the Japanese used in World War II. ---
**Author:** ![Havoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Havoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Havoc)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/26 "2000-04-13T15:27:00Z")
I wouldn’t call this plate the oddest out of the hundreds of vanity places that I have seen, but it nicely summarized the 80s decade when I saw this on the back of a BMW over ten years ago: **XTCINXS** I always thought that it’d be cool to send a message to policemen with radar guns everywhere with my own license plate which would read “ **C U CU** ”. Okay, so it uses a little chemistry to get the last word, but still… ---
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/27 "2000-04-13T16:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Johnny L.A.: > > My favourite plate that I’ve seen is **A6M TYPE0** … on a **Mitsubishi!** Hahahahahaha! > Ok, I know I’m a blonde and all, so forgive me. But I don’t get this one either. ??? Mitsubishi, that fine company known for making SUVs and the Galant, is the same company that manufactured the A6M “Zero” fighter that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and decimated the inferior (at the time) American planes. 🙂 * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/28 "2000-04-14T05:22:00Z")
I knew someone whose license plate said “SWE PEA.” The car was a forest-green '67 Mustang convertible. And he didn’t even ask for the plate; it was just given to him by chance. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/29 "2000-04-13T18:11:00Z")
I used to see a car with IMA DV8 riding around. He’s probably been locked up by now! ---
**Author:** ![ralphredan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ralphredan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphredan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/30 "2000-04-13T18:12:00Z")
I worked with a guy with a motorcycle plate: \*\* CLAPP \*\* The CA DMV wouldn’t let it through at first, but he complained that since his name was David Clapp (it was), that they couldn’t bar it without defaming him. They gave in. * * * It’s sunny today in the RSA. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/31 "2000-04-13T18:20:00Z")
My wife got me a custom plate for my birthday. It says “MY ELF”. Story behind it? When we were dating/engaged, she asked if “I like to do housework.” I told her, “Do I _like_ it? I’ll do my share, but I certainly won’t complain if an elf comes in the middle of the night and we find it’s all done.” Fast-forward to December 30, 1995. We’re married a little over 9 months and making a bridal shower in our house for one of her best friends. We make a chinese buffet, which obviously generated many dirty dishes. Somewhere around midnight-1 AM, my wife fell asleep. The following morning, there wasn’t a dirty dish in the house. I told her that an elf had come into the house and done the dishes. To this day, she accuses me of having done them, as well as numerous other loads of dishes over the years. I maintain that we have an elf that comes regularly. [PAUL HARVEY]And that’s…the rest of the story.[/PAUL HARVEY] * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/32 "2000-04-13T18:21:00Z")
I don’t know how this one got past the DMV board (obviously they didn’t “get” it). It was on a car in St. Louis… **U812HO** But if we’re talking about really odd plates, I saw this one just the other day… **CCCCCCC** Huh? Would anyone care to try to deciper _that_ one? * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank “Mom, he’s a neo Nazi! He’s a doctor also? Well…” - WallyM7 ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/33 "2000-04-13T21:21:00Z")
Shayna: The Seven Seas? * * * Those who do not learn from history are condemned to fail the class. --A **WallyM7** creation ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/34 "2000-04-13T21:36:00Z")
Some from Scotland CLA55Y - driven by a striking blonde J1NGS - a Scots expression = Good Heavens, or for those less offended - bloody hell GET11N - split to read GET 1 IN 100MPH - on a BMW BTW aenea I get your sig De Chelonian Mobile * * * The Scots - never trust a race whose national dress includes a concealed knife. ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/35 "2000-04-13T22:01:00Z")
Two that I’ve seen- I forget the type of vehicle (SUV) with the plate reading 100PROOF, but I woundn’t want to be pulled over for a DWI in it. Many years ago there was a white Volkswagan Rabbit with the New York plate reading IM LATE. * * * Cats are like Baptists. They raise hell but you’ll never catch them at it. ---
**Author:** ![jjjfishe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jjjfishe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjjfishe)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/36 "2000-04-13T22:06:00Z")
I saw a license plate that read PBZEPLN PB is the code for lead - * * * Never criticize a person until you walk a mile in their shoes… this way when you do criticize them you’ll be a mile away… oh… and you’ll have free shoes. :o) ---
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/37 "2000-04-13T22:14:00Z")
## I worked with a guy whose plate was **AGAGAGA** (the sound of Popeye laughing). “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![dwtno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@dwtno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwtno)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/38 "2000-04-13T22:21:00Z")
How about the plate I once spotted in DC… **SNAAB** on, what else but a Saab. Well, _I_ thought it was funny, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/39 "2000-04-13T23:04:00Z")
There’s a guy at Rice who drives a Delorean. License plate: OUTUTYM ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/40 "2000-04-14T03:29:00Z")
Once I saw a new Beetle with a kick-ass fire paint job. It’s plate was BUG LYTE. Sideshow Bob’s license plate is IH8BART. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112.md?page=3)