# Soliciting ideas for a vanity plate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345 "2005-06-22T12:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/21 "2005-06-23T12:13:43Z")
> [@flight](#): > > You too? Where? I work in 1220; live in Hampton… ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/22 "2005-06-23T14:58:40Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I work in 1220; live in Hampton… 1212, live in Newport News, right by the airport. Heh, fellow Doper. We should have a secret handshake or something. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/23 "2005-06-23T18:48:36Z")
How 'bout these:[ul] [list] [li]VMTCMT (Vomit Comet)[/li][li]SPCBLS (Spaceballs)[/li][li]PHY-6 (Physics)[/li][li]RKTJCK (rocket jock)[/li][/ul] Buffett: [ul] [li]VLCANO[/li][li]COMNDY (Come Monday)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/24 "2005-06-23T18:59:39Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > BURNDOG? It would have to be one of the plain vanilla plates so I could get 7 letters on it… If you’re considering 7 letters, how 'bout BGRMUSH (Badger Mushroom)? Nahhhh, I guess that might be interpreted as “booger mush”… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/25 "2005-06-23T19:16:04Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > Please, anything _but_ HIOPAL. > > I also agree with Sean; please don’t get a vanity plate. Another vote for this. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/26 "2005-06-23T19:29:30Z")
> [@Mama Zappa](#): > > If you’re considering 7 letters, how 'bout BGRMUSH (Badger Mushroom)? Nahhhh, I guess that might be interpreted as “booger mush”… Replying to my own post here - maybe BDGMUSH or BDGMSH 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Composer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Composer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/27 "2005-06-23T19:33:36Z")
I’d go with: YMMV 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/28 "2005-06-23T20:35:59Z")
> [@The Composer](#): > > YMMV Save it for when you get a hybrid! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/29 "2005-06-23T21:49:18Z")
Well, I bought the car, got it insured, and title and temp plated this afternoon. Y’all had some excellent ideas, but it came down to A G33K and CDLZRD, and CDLZRD won. I should get the final plates in the mail in about 2 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/30 "2005-06-24T03:55:21Z")
Congratulations. I came in too late, to ask first if your state issues and requires a front plate. I was going to suggest you get ‘INZVNE’ and then (possibly dodgy with the law here) mount it upside down on the front. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/31 "2005-06-24T04:14:12Z")
> [@AmbushBug](#): > > Congratulations. I came in too late, to ask first if your state issues and requires a front plate. > > I was going to suggest you get ‘INZVNE’ and then (possibly dodgy with the law here) mount it upside down on the front. Umm… whoosh? I don’t get it. Rotate it 180 degrees in head? Nothin’. Even turned laptop upside down. Got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/32 "2005-06-24T08:40:08Z")
Oh, so people would read “INSANE” in their rear-view mirrors when you’re behind them 🙂 The N’s would be backwards but the Z makes a stylish S and you don’t notice the crossbar missing from the A-which-is-an-inverted-V. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/33 "2005-06-24T13:24:56Z")
I wonder if they would approve “3704SSV” to be mounted upside down. ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/34 "2005-06-24T15:10:55Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I wonder if they would approve “3704SSV” to be mounted upside down. I don’t think it’d pass the DMV clerk. The personalized plate you propose is available in my state (no zeroes allowed, but o’s suffice) but the 4’s are closed-top so they don’t make good h’s. A mangled “INSANE” would pass, I think, as long as you didn’t state your intention to hang it like St. Peter. [Link](https://dmvapp.state.nv.us/PlateAV/PlateAV_Input.aspx) While the law in my state does not specifically prohibit upside-down display, I think that the requirement that the plate be “legible” is enough to compel right-side-up display. [Nev. Revised Statute 482.275](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-482.html#NRS482Sec275) ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/35 "2005-06-24T15:49:00Z")
1ene1? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345/36 "2005-06-24T18:14:16Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Well, I bought the car, got it insured, and title and temp plated this afternoon. Y’all had some excellent ideas, but it came down to A G33K and CDLZRD, and CDLZRD won. I should get the final plates in the mail in about 2 weeks. Well, glad you found something that makes you happy. And at least [one person](http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=88105&ran=130031) in the area will appreciate it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soliciting-ideas-for-a-vanity-plate/309345.md?page=1)