# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/21 "2004-06-14T17:46:37Z")
“KEPT” On a Mercedes being driven by a blue-hair. ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@Darkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/22 "2004-06-14T17:46:54Z")
I’ve seen ROFLMAO and WTF. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/23 "2004-06-14T18:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. It’s French Connection United Kingdom, a clothing line and radio station. And yes, they did it deliberately. Coming soon to a tshirt near you. ---
**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, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/24 "2004-06-14T18:21:45Z")
[Info on Florida’s infmaous Ass Orgy plate](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/blueplate/assorgy1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/25 "2004-06-14T18:24:45Z")
Years ago I cooked at a local pancake house (not part of a chain). The owner’s truck bore a license plate that said PANCAKE. His wife’s car had SYRUP. His mom’s car had DOLLAR6 - “Dollar 6” was the abbreviation the waitresses wrote on the ticket to indicate “6 silver-dollar pancakes” which was what the Boss Mother ate for breakfast every day. I misread a vanity plate in an amusing way some years ago, because I was reading it in my rearview mirror. It actually said “RIDE EM”, but what registered at first glance was “RIDE ME”. The plates were on a pickup truck with a damn fine-looking woman behind the wheel, so that probably had some influence on how I read the plate 😃 I saw the truck regularly around town, and judging by the bumper stickers, the woman owned horses and possibly participated in rodeos, so that would explain the “RIDE EM”. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/26 "2004-06-14T18:32:11Z")
SWEAVE (which I have come to learn means “fuck”). My English professor (a blue-haired, little old lady) had it on her Cadillac. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/27 "2004-06-14T19:40:11Z")
At the last place I worked, someone got away with: NA2I Which I found funny in the nonconformist kinda way, but I couldn’t imagine who would be ballsy enough to drive around with that one. I never checked for key marks on the side of the car, but I’d be surprised if they could get to the supermarket and back without sporting one. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/28 "2004-06-14T21:22:34Z")
I feel stupid. ☹ RGR MRTS on a hearse? RFID-TAG? Help! ---
**Author:** ![Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Lathe\_of\_Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lathe_of_Heaven)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/29 "2004-06-14T21:45:25Z")
I saw one this morning that made me feel faintly ooky. LAST SS It’s probably some _other_ SS than that well-known one, but still. Yerk. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/30 "2004-06-14T21:53:46Z")
> [@Lizard](#): > > I saw one today on I-71 that was just one word: “CELERY.” > > I have no idea. I’ll offer a possible explanation: Some members of the Copyediting-L mailing list (also known as “CE-L”) refer to the group as “the CELery.” Could have been one of us. **Queen Tonya:** RiGoR MoRTiS. (No idea on the other one.) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/31 "2004-06-14T22:04:17Z")
“RFID” (or Radio Frequency ID) tags are the kinds of tags that let you drive through the tollbooth without having to stop. Someone at work has one that says “MOBLSUT”, I haven’t figured it out but I’m constantly misreading it as “MOB SLUT”. And what’s with people that put their car models on their vanity tags? Like someone who drives a VW Passat and has a tag that says “PASSAT”. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/32 "2004-06-14T23:48:30Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Someone at work has one that says “MOBLSUT”, I haven’t figured it out but I’m constantly misreading it as “MOB SLUT”. MOBiLe SUiT Gundam, maybe? A popular Japanese _anime_ series. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/33 "2004-06-15T01:43:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > And what’s with people that put their car models on their vanity tags? Like someone who drives a VW Passat and has a tag that says “PASSAT”. I don’t get it. That’s easy. They’re idiots. In that vein, we’ve got the all-time dumb vanity plate winner in my area: THE CAR. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/34 "2004-06-15T02:08:10Z")
> [@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. Took me 30 seconds. At my brother’s house they park their two grey and blue vehicles side by side. The plates read DALLAS CWBOYS ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/35 "2004-06-15T02:11:48Z")
My friends uncle had vanity plates that read: FLY9. He was a younger guy so I thought he was just trying to be cool and hip. Kept meaning to ask what it meant for the longest time. Then I was invited to their annual Booyah and saw the rest of his families vanity plates and was finally able to put it all together. FLY1, FLY2, FLY3, etc… up to FLY9. Their family name was Fleischauker, hence the FLY1 etc… ---
**Author:** ![EnginNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@EnginNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnginNerd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/36 "2004-06-15T02:37:49Z")
On a full size SUV (Toyota Sequoia): EARTHLVR (So does LVR mean Lover or Leveler?) ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/37 "2004-06-15T05:01:33Z")
I live near Johnson Space Center in Houston. One of our space walking astronauts had GO4EVA. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/38 "2004-06-15T05:42:59Z")
I knew someone who drove a Honda with the spooneristic plate “FENRY.” After coming out of the closet, a friend of mine got the plate “YESIAM” and plastered her rear bumper with rainbow, labrys and Melissa Etheridge stickers. I knew a couple whose plates reflected their educational goals “PHD2BE” and “JD2BE” respectively. But the one that made me gag on my latte one morning was “SPLD RTN” on a Jaguar convertible driven by a girl who looked to be 18, tops. My suspicions about her age were further affirmed when she pulled into the student lot at the local high school. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/39 "2004-06-15T15:23:01Z")
I once saw one that read HWY2HEL. Not offensive by most people’s standards, but I’m surprised my state’s DMV let this one pass. The ones that usually draw my attention are single-letter vanity plates because of all the blank space they leave. I’ve seen a car around town with the letter C several times, and another one with a V, nothing else. Side note: One time in a magazine that ran a “photo of the month” feature, it showed a car with the word “OOPS” on its license plate. Nothing too unusual about that, except that the car had been crashed into from the front. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222/40 "2004-06-15T15:33:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I saw one this morning that made me feel faintly ooky. > LAST SS > > It’s probably some other SS than that well-known one, but still. Yerk. I bet it was an 96 Impala SS; 1996 was the last year for the Impala SS, and some people were very sad about it. Big car, big engine. The non-SS impala is still made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-oddest-vanity-license-plates-youve-seen/250222.md?page=3)