# Pennsylvania license plates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 22, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293 "2000-04-22T22:06:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293/1 "2000-04-22T22:06:00Z")

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I saw a Pennsylvania license plate today (I live in Ohio) and noticed that instead of the usual state nickname or tourism motto, the bottom of the plate read: [www.state.pa.us](http://www.state.pa.us)  
Seems like a good idea. Any other states do this, or plan to?

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**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293/2 "2000-04-23T01:26:00Z")

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I actually think they’re pretty hokey, but perhaps not as hokey as the “You’ve Got a Friend In…” plates from a few years ago. Pennsylvania has also put their Web address on the “Welcome” signs on some of the major highways entering the state. [url="[http://home.earthlink.net/~cgreeneva/thebox/penna.jpg](http://home.earthlink.net/~cgreeneva/thebox/penna.jpg)"This picture was taken where US 15 enters Pennsylvania from Maryland.

malden

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**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293/3 "2000-04-23T01:29:00Z")

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Oops… I mean [this picture](http://home.earthlink.net/~cgreeneva/thebox/penna.jpg). $%$$%^&# brackets.

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**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293/4 "2000-04-23T01:32:00Z")

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I have no idea why that happened. Just Cut & Paste from my first post and I’ll crawl away & reread the UBB instructions. :o

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**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-license-plates/16293/5 "2000-04-24T00:58:00Z")

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I personally think it’s pretty dumb. I can just see it–“Your Honor, I didn’t hit that kid because I was negligent, I was just tryin’ to read the web address on the plate ahead of me…”

Also, if you’re not from Pennsylvania you may not have heard…many licence plate holders block off part of the plate from view. Ordinarily no one cares as long as you can see the state and number, but now the blocked part is the web address. It turns out that’s an offense, punishable by a fine. (It’s not being enforced, and the General Assembly is supposedly going to decriminalize web address-blocking.)