# Vanity Plates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144 "2004-10-20T01:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/21 "2004-10-20T15:11:55Z")
Yeah, the artsy one is great! I know none of you will believe this, but I SWEAR this plate exists: IMPECHW I saw it on an SUV (Pathfinder, I think) about a month ago, cruising down the 805 in San Diego. I am NOT making that up. I damn near drove off the road. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/22 "2004-10-20T15:35:02Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Spied on a Mini-Cooper a few days ago: > > EX SUV On a Mini-Cooper in my parts: OBHAIV ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/23 "2004-10-20T17:11:16Z")
Seen in the Central Valley of California on a minivan: ANALOVE I’m quite sure the woman (presumably named Ana) driving was oblivious to any additional interpretations of her plate…or maybe not… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/24 "2004-10-20T17:20:35Z")
I thought my Dad’s was pretty clever. **RXN**. He drove an RX-7 to the Pharmacy that he worked at where he filled drug prescriptions (Rx’s). ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/25 "2004-10-20T17:23:56Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > In California, one of your letters can be replaced by a heart symbol. > > I saw this on the back of a VW in Laguna Beach. > > [The Best Vanity License Plate](http://www.wayman.us/artzfartz.jpg) > > Took me a couple of minutes, but once I got it, I applauded the girl for her creativity. Along those lines. My Mom is an Artist and my father a Pharmacist. They briefly discussed getting a personlised plate that read PHART, or PH-ART. He then chose RXN instead. Thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/26 "2004-10-20T17:27:20Z")
On a Land Rover: IGONEWAR On Pink old-style Beetle: TICKLED On a fuchsia Civic, with a Hello Kitty shade: 6RLYRYDE On an older Jeep, parked a few blocks from I-66: IH8 66 On a white minivan, owned by an ex-federal employee: ANARKI ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/27 "2004-10-20T18:19:56Z")
On an Infiniti --\> ANDBYND I have friends who have EMAIL and BOFH. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/28 "2004-10-20T18:30:30Z")
I forgot one more that made me laugh. NARF The license plate ring said “Are you pondering what I’m pondering?” After I finished laughing, I said (to myself) “I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so.” And then I laughed some more. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/29 "2004-10-20T18:40:30Z")
I work for NASA. and if I can get it, I want AG33K ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/30 "2004-10-20T19:15:29Z")
My favorite: YOURN. Makes no sense, of course, until one final fact is revealed: The car owner is a urologist ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/31 "2004-10-20T19:25:10Z")
> [@Redwing](#): > > On an Infiniti → ANDBYND I have some friends of the family who have an Infiniti with the license plate **N BEYOND** ---
**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:** [October 20, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/32 "2004-10-20T20:03:48Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > I know none of you will believe this, but I SWEAR this plate exists: > > IMPECHW I don’t get this… oh wait. “Impeach Dubya?” > [@RealityChuck](#): > > My favorite: YOURN. > > Makes no sense, of course, until one final fact is revealed… It would work better if “your” and the first syllable un “urine” rhymed… or do they in your dialect? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/33 "2004-10-20T21:16:47Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > It would work better if “your” and the first syllable un “urine” rhymed… or do they in our dialect? Summary of a Reader’s Digest anecdote: A woman called her doctor’s office to complain about a bill and wanted it it broken up item-by-item. When the nurse got down to “urinalysis”, the woman asked, “I’m a what?” ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/34 "2004-10-20T21:51:59Z")
I think I’ve posted this around here before, but the best plates I’ve seen are: DCY4THS I spent an entire traffic light cycle figuring that one out, then laughed out loud when I got it. 🙂 My plates are personalized, but they only make sense if you know my last name. I hope to someday have plates that say 8675309 (which would then make it easy to guess my _first_ name 😃 ). ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/35 "2004-10-20T21:59:20Z")
IML8IML8 - on a white VW Rabbit -mdf ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/36 "2004-10-20T22:24:55Z")
When in grad school I used to walk through a parking lot on the way to my office. There was always the same car parked there with the license plate, “BAAB”. Didn’t think much of it until I connected that to the make of the car…Saab. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/37 "2004-10-20T22:37:42Z")
Great posts! More I’ve seen: STILDNCN (outside an abortion clinic) BLACKURA (Yes on a black Accura)(driven by a man of color) IVADREAM Being passed on I-95 in Va. by DREAMON ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/38 "2004-10-20T23:11:23Z")
A car in my old home town had IB6UB9 ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/39 "2004-10-20T23:24:25Z")
I didn’t see this plate. I was talking to a woman at a party once who owned a '69 Corvette. She loved her 'Vette and was very proud of it. She wanted a vanity plate that would show that. She came up with HEY 69. She quickly learned it was possible to return vanity plates. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144/40 "2004-10-20T23:26:37Z")
Probably about 20 years ago, in the L.A. area: CYNTL8N GR8 2SH As was mentioned above, you can now replace one of the letters with a heart. Also available are stars, hands, and another one which I can’t remember. The DMV calls these child plates; the extra money goes to children’s charities. But I don’t see many vanity plates that just use the old format of up to 7 numerals or letters. In the beginning, vanity plates had upper middle class connotations and you were always seeing them on BMWs, Mercedes, and so forth. I had my initials on my plate, first on a new VW then on an old Beemer. Now, though, they seem to have become passe. By the time I saw a license plate that said, MI HNDAI I decided that maybe it wasn’t so distinctive anymore. You can still get traditional vanity plates, but I the DMV here offers a variety of other “special interest” plates, in addition to the child plates, that have different backgrounds. I think those are more popular these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-plates/270144.md?page=3)