# 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:** 3
**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 14, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/41 "2000-04-14T03:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > D Marie: > > Shayna: > The Seven Seas? ## :::Smacking forehead::: **DUH!** Thank you, Marie. (Boy, do I feel silly now. :D) “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 “Shayna… [one of] the most despised posters on this board.” As declared by WallyM7, on whose list I am most honored to be, no matter what it was a list of! ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/42 "2000-04-14T21:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by jjjfishe: > \*\*I saw a license plate that read PBZEPLN > PB is the code for lead - > > \*\* I once dated a guy whose plate said LEDZEP. . . no where near as clever as that though. * * * “I need the biggest seed bell you have. . . no, that’s too big.”–Hans Moleman ---
**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 14, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/43 "2000-04-14T21:12:00Z")
How did I forget this earlier? I once saw - K9 DOG * * * The Scots - never trust a race whose national dress includes a concealed knife. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/44 "2000-04-14T21:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW aenea I get your sig De Chelonian Mobile I like this. Can I borrow it sometime? * * * The Turtle Moves ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/45 "2000-04-15T01:39:00Z")
An old friend of mine is a fireman and his plates say IRSQTHM * * * MaryAnn I’m into superstition, black cats, and voodoo dolls (\<—written in case Ricky reads this board) ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/46 "2000-04-15T01:45:00Z")
This one is stupid, but it made me giggle when I saw it. FOLO ME * * * _That was a well-plotted piece of non-claptrap that never made me want to retch._ ---
**Author:** ![Hockey969](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@Hockey969](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey969)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/47 "2000-04-15T03:31:00Z")
I do not know how this passed DMV censors but one of my old neighbors license plates was SUMBTCH. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/48 "2000-04-15T04:20:00Z")
My grade 3 teacher’s liscence was I’m Boss and this one I see almost every time I go to work (its on the vehicle parked in front of a house near my job) is ODAT4ME * * * Life is an exotic and sonorous nightmare, in which reason does not always play a role… - Exerpted from V:tM ```auto Dreams die hard and we hold them in our hands long after they have turned to dust. - Bowen in Dragonheart ``` Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid. - Seize the Night by Dean Koontz ```auto You know why people call something impossible? Because it hasn't happened yet. - Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come ``` ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/49 "2000-04-15T04:23:00Z")
my grade four teacher had THE dorkiest license plate. _ahem_ ‘QUI MOI’ ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/50 "2000-04-15T04:36:00Z")
My dad is the safety manager where he works. His name is Pat. He got new vanity plates for his car recently: SAF T PAT My dad is a tremendous dork. * * * I never hate myself in the morning. I sleep till noon. –Sig line courtesy of Wally 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TripleAnt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TripleAnt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleAnt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/51 "2000-04-17T03:36:00Z")
## I saw another one today going to work. It said: ADIOS2U So I passed him. This is the most exciting thing I’ve seen since Halley’s Comet collided with the moon. ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/52 "2000-04-17T04:54:00Z")
Seems like there’s always a truck behind the mechanical engineering building at UW-Madison with a plate SOME PIG and a pig hood ornament. * * * _“The best way to do mathematics is to be creatively lazy.” -I. M. Isaacs_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/53 "2000-04-17T05:11:00Z")
The quality manager where I work has QUALI T. And the building manager, named Fisher, has FISHIE. Now we have eight-character vanity license plates\* in Ontario. I can’t _wait_ to see what shows up on the roads. ## [li]The first month the Ministry of Transport is selling the eight-character plates, the price is 500 dollars. Then they go down to 200. Let the rich people in first, I guess…[/li] Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos… ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/54 "2000-04-17T05:56:00Z")
In Hawaii, I saw LTL BCH A couple times in Kihei, on Maui. It was a pickup truck, and it was driven by a guy with diving equipment. * * * Sheesh! You’d think Scotty would have an extra set of dilithium crystals in his toolbox. But noooooo… - A Wally Sig Sunday: Observed the Sabbath by not being an asshole. - From Drain Bead’s Schedule ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/55 "2000-04-17T13:19:00Z")
DTGVAFK (“Don’t Give a Fuck”, if its not obvious). I think it was a CT license plate (being my home state). Im surprised the DMV let that one slip through, but I thought it was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/56 "2000-04-17T13:33:00Z")
There was a piece in the local paper about the number of offensive plates that the DMV lets through, because they are mirror images. T1H5TA3 and the like. * * * A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing: “I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig! ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/57 "2000-04-17T22:09:00Z")
Also, I knew a guy who was a music major (played oboe), and a huge star wars geek. His license plate: OBOEWAN ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Happy\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Dave)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/58 "2000-04-17T23:11:00Z")
i’m now married, so it is no longer on my car, but in my single days my plates said PROMSQS. 🙂 * * * HaVe a GreaTFuL DaY… ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/59 "2000-04-18T13:51:00Z")
Obowan? Stop, your killing me. Don’t let my mom see that one. Ok, here’s another one I saw and did not get: GANTT and one driven by a lady in a jag: Dale is #1, I guess he would be #1 in my book too if he bought me a jag. _aenea, who now wants a cool plate to put on her Jeep_ * * * The Turtle Moves ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112/60 "2000-04-18T14:06:00Z")
I’ve seen two in Virginia that I think were chosen to be hard to read: [ul][li]one with the characters B, 9, 8, G, S, 6 in a Sans Serif font[/li][li]one with the characters Z, X, K, 7, W, M[/ul][/li] I was standing behind each car staring at the plate and _still_ couldn’t read it well. It was almost like it was making me dislexic. * * * You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-license-plates/16112.md?page=4)