Some explanation might be in order…
As you may or may not know, there’s hundreds of thousands of adults who still build with Lego. Some of them unite into groups. Our group, the Dutch-based Lowlug has plenty of truck geeks who like to build huge all-terrain vehicles. Right now we’ve got a competition going to find out who’s built the best truck.
This is a picture of the previous truck I built. I labeled it ‘Stilzkin’, a ficticious Russian Truck brand. The truck had “OMGWTF” license plates. Right now, I’ve found an engraving service that can make better looking license plates from lego bricks, like this.
However, now that I have the possibility, all the wittyness has fled my brain. I want to make a Dutch-style license plate, one that’s usually labeled in one of these formats:
99-XX-XX
XX-99-XX
XX-XX-99
After the OMGWTF I considered other acronyms like RTFM or LMAO followed by a number, but that seems lame now. I’m looking for something witty or funny, possibly dealing with big trucks or the ol’ USSR. Self-depreciating humour is also welcomed.
So far the truck’s still a work-in-progress, which can be seen here. An animation of the old one can be seen here.
I was thinking of something along the lines of a vanity plate, like SNP 2 IT. LEGO MY EGGO also comes to mind, but if you’re not in the US you probably won’t get it. (An old commercial for frozen waffles called Eggos.)
Any naughty plays on the word “Peterbilt” might be a good choice, too–though that doesn’t meet your Russian criteria. GLAST-NOT?
Gah. I’m no more creative than you at the moment! :smack:
The ones I’ve got so far:
SO-VI-37 or 50-VI-ET (Soviet)
57-AL-IN (Stalin)
The nines are a problem. The only thing I can think of is that if you play with the shapes of the characters just a little, the number “509937” can look like “LEGGOS” upside-down. If I think of something better, I’ll post it.
Am I correct that it doesn’t have to have specifically “99” in it, just a 2 digit number?
I’d assume you’re correct, as the number of the actual plate in the photo linked in the OP was 94-FJ-HS.
For the letter combinations, I thought of CCCP (Cyrillic equivalent of SSSR, the abbreviation for Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) or SOUU (which could be read as “so-U’s”, the approximate pronunciation of Soyuz, which means “union”).
Ah, yes. ‘99’ can be replaced by any random two-digit number. Perhaps I should’ve been more clear on that.
I really like the ‘to the nines’ suggestion, though 
