# Unfortunate personalized license plates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873 "2003-09-11T00:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/21 "2003-09-13T15:43:27Z")
I have a friend who has a state-issued license place that isn’t funny in and of itself, but she is SO annoyed – the first car she ever bought new for herself, and what do the letters on her license plate say? PUQ. There’s also the story of the court reporter in California who drove around for over ten years with vanity plates that read TPUBG before someone who could read steno shorthand notified the state that that’s steno shorthand for FUK. She then claimed it was supposed to be a shorthand-type abbreviation for the phrase “if you can.” Riiiiiight. ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/22 "2003-09-13T17:04:48Z")
I want to get ID10T or IDTENT just to humor others. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/23 "2003-09-13T17:13:44Z")
I’ve been thinking for years of getting my usename as a vanity plate. (It would work best if I drove a '69 Camaro 😉 ) But I have been informed in another thread that people who aren’t familiar with Hendrix thought if6was9 was a sexual reference… ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/24 "2003-09-13T17:22:40Z")
A couple years ago I saw a guy go past and his plate was AGRIV8D. I thought “Hmm, maybe he gets road rage”. Then I saw a lady drive by with AGRIV8R. I had a car that my (then)father-in-law (God bless him he was only trying to help) gave us. A Renault Le Car. I hated that car from dead on sight. I wanted LE RAG plates but my (now Ex)wife would only allow LE TAG. Only vanity plate I ever, or will ever have, had. ---
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/25 "2003-09-13T19:21:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if6was9 \* > \*\*It took me a while (between other posts and stuff) to find it but… I only have a local copy, no site. I have a picture of a vanity plate, Washington State, 3M - TA3. You have to imagine what it would look like in your rear view mirror! :eek: \*\* hey if6 and everyone else if you go to this link you will see the beastie boys first album released in 1986 and it has the 3m ta3 on the cover [http://www.citycol.com/basic\_skills/Magazine/Writing/Dave%20beastie.htm](http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Magazine/Writing/Dave%20beastie.htm) ---
**Author:** ![tolyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tolyri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tolyri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/26 "2003-09-13T21:22:10Z")
I had non-vanity plates that read BL04YU. People assumed I was a whore, and hubby was a coke dealer. We got honked at a lot. I thought it was funny. Then I saw a story where a local girl got BL04SX. She raised hell at the BMV and got new plates free. Hubby traded ours in before I got a picture. ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/27 "2003-09-14T01:16:53Z")
In my old city, there’s a Honda S2000 with the plate ‘NOFATCHX’ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873/28 "2003-09-14T02:00:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*I remember reading a story about a guy who ordered vanity plates and when he got them, they had the most common four-letter word on them. … I doubt the story is true. \*\* I didn’t find a Snopes article to confirm or deny this account, but I did learn that a clerical misunderstanding caused a California man to receive tags reading [NO PLATE](http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp). Frustration ensued. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfortunate-personalized-license-plates/200873.md?page=1)