I saw an old man in Iowa with “Pud 1”. Now, as a youth in Minnesota, Pud was a term often ascribed to the, ahem, male love juice, ahem. I dunno, maybe the guy was a jergoff.
Some states offer partial vanity plates that look exactly like issued plates. For example, Illinois plates can have three random numbers and a specific combination of letters. This is how one of my sisters got her son’s nickname on her plates.
As I’ve noted on this board before, my favorite is : ML8 ML8
I saw this at a traffic light, and was puzzliong over it for a while – it was obviously some kind of joke – when I noticed that it was on a White Rabbit. Someone on this board has reported that someone else has used the joke in a different staste.
A friend told me about another plate on a VW Rabbit – Inle. Obviously a Watership Down fan.
Maybe I’m getting a big whoosh here, but aren’t you just describing coloured plates?
Ummm, HSV4US, SLEEK and 80KRD, which I don’t get at all. A friend of mine’s boyfriend had the numberplate 000 NVD. She was very surprised when we didn’t get it straight away :dubious: “N! V! D! think about it N… V…D. It’s so obvious… N… V… D… Envy Thee.”
But I was naturally blessed with the numberplate RJ 690. If only motorbike numberplates had three letters!
My Mom, now retired, was a court reporter. That funky machine they use to record the testimony is really amazing, and the writing bears zero resemblance to English. It’s sort of phonetic, sort of piano-chording, and 100% weird. It looks a lot like what happens when the cat walks on your PC keyboard.
Back in the 70s when these plates first became available in California, one of the guys in her office got a plate which said “F*CK YOU” in machine shorthand. To you and me it looked something like “GHYJ CY P”, but everybody in the court reporting business though it was a hoot.
I’m sure that plate puzzled a lot of other drivers. AFAIK, the DMV never did catch on.
A few years ago I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting a car that had made a sudden u-turn and pulled in front of me. The license plate said I B LOST.
A few years ago I was waiting at a stop light and read the plate of the person in front of me:
MOX JET
What made me start laughing uncontrollably was that it was a black Suzuki Samurai. You know, the ones that had a tendancy to tip easily? The only thing I could think of was “How much good will a single black mana have during a rollover?”
I know, I’m a geek.
Then there are a couple I occasionally see in the parking garage at work:
DAS KAR: on a BMW.
LIL CAR: on a Mini cooper.
I still wonder whether those two people know each other…