# What are the oddest vanity license plates you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222 "2004-06-14T01:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/1 "2004-06-14T01:47:34Z")
I saw one today on I-71 that was just one word: “CELERY.” I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/2 "2004-06-14T02:11:18Z")
ROFL:-D I weep for humanity. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/3 "2004-06-14T03:00:35Z")
PUBESMA I have no fucking clue. Purple car driven by old lady in a hat. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/4 "2004-06-14T03:12:35Z")
Odd, but also my favorite: YOURN Doesn’t make any sense until you are given one bit of extra data: The owner was a urologist. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/5 "2004-06-14T03:15:23Z")
I’ve seen a number of these in my life. Vanity license plates… that look exactly like regular license plates. Just a bunch of random numbers and letters, following the same pattern and spacing as issued license plates. Either that, or they left off the state logo from a pressing, and issued them anyway… though I’ve seen this for several states. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/6 "2004-06-14T03:20:05Z")
Ooo, this is a good thread to post a NY one I saw the other day: **RFID-TAG** I guess I get it, but that’s just odd. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/7 "2004-06-14T04:38:28Z")
It was odd only because it took me a moment to puzzle out the intent, but it’d have to be SZMTTRS on a big boofed up monster truck. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/8 "2004-06-14T04:42:52Z")
\URKIDS Just 'cause I couldn’t figure out whether the owner was appealing to me to love my own kids [of which there are none], or if she was informing me that _she_ loved my kids [of which there are even fewer]. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/9 "2004-06-14T12:50:51Z")
When I was living in Orange County, California, I once saw an old hearse that had been fixed up, freshly painted, and sported the memorable vanity plate: RGR MRTS. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/10 "2004-06-14T13:29:01Z")
HOOAH93 I was thinking, “Man, what kind of person is so obsessed with ‘Scent of a Woman’ that they get a personalized license plate about it?” And no, it wasn’t Al Pacino. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/11 "2004-06-14T13:36:50Z")
The most profane was in Florida where they have the Orange in the middle of their plate. So picture that orange in the middle with ASS on one side and RGY on the other. So in all it said **ASSORGY**. Profane I know. Nicest one was in Maine: SO4TUN8 ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/12 "2004-06-14T13:59:39Z")
I like it when people are forced to substitute letters because the vanity “message” they want is already taken … I assume this was the case for the woman I saw driving a car with SNOQPY on the plate. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/13 "2004-06-14T14:02:37Z")
I think the best one I ever saw was “QQQQ2”. Think about it _real_ hard. It didn’t hit me until about six hours later. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/14 "2004-06-14T14:03:49Z")
Friend of ours has 4KNMYI, which I kinda like. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/15 "2004-06-14T14:04:40Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I think the best one I ever saw was “QQQQ2”. > > Think about it _real_ hard. It didn’t hit me until about six hours later. CUTE. 🙂 I was annoyed by some bitchy woman at the eyeglass shop a while back. When I left, I saw what I guess was her license tag on her car: I ENDURE No, lady, it’s the people who deal with you who endure. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/16 "2004-06-14T16:59:58Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > The most profane was in Florida where they have the Orange in the middle of their plate. So picture that orange in the middle with ASS on one side and RGY on the other. So in all it said **ASSORGY**. Profane I know. Not [quite](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/blueplate/assorgy1.html). AFAIK most state DMVs screen the vanity license plates for anything obviously profane, so getting “ASS” on a licence plate is pretty much an impossible task. Unless someone wants to try HAOSLSE and see if it flies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/17 "2004-06-14T17:08:12Z")
Along the same lines as A55ORGY, we have a great one here in Charlottesville, VA. U.Va is right here, and there are lots of options to get vanity plates on a U.Va template. One of these templates is simple a nice orange and blue capital “V” on the left side of the plate. There’s a car that got that template, with “AGINA” as the custom message. Classy, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/18 "2004-06-14T17:20:49Z")
\*\*Dangerosa \*\* and I saw an odd one a few days back. BIGOTIM on a muscle car driven by a youngish white guy with short hair. I must admit confusion – the first thing I thought of was “bigot I am” which _must_ not be what he wants to tell the world. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/19 "2004-06-14T17:37:29Z")
Maybe he’s a fan of “Big O”, the anime show with a rich guy who controls a giant robot? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/20 "2004-06-14T17:45:54Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Not [quite](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/blueplate/assorgy1.html). AFAIK most state DMVs screen the vanity license plates for anything obviously profane, so getting “ASS” on a licence plate is pretty much an impossible task. > > Unless someone wants to try HAOSLSE and see if it flies. 😉 Yeah, you could manipulate that email thingy that was going around saying that it’s not the order of the letters that matters, so long as the first and last letters are in the proper place. So you could have ALHOSSE and try to claim that it was a relative’s name or something. Of course, in that vein, there’s the ad that I always see in the city on the sides of buses that always gets me. I can’t even tell you what the ad is for (I keep thinking a radio station, but I am likely wrong)… All I know is I keep doing a double take when I see FCUK emblazoned on the side of the bus in big purple letters. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222.md?page=2)