# What is, or would be, your personalized plate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864 "2007-05-20T23:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/1 "2007-05-20T23:30:38Z")
My vehicle registration is due again and once again I am thinking of getting a personalized liscence plate. I am thinking of either J8R 69, or M8J 69. What do you have or would you get if there were no restrictions on what is allowed? Also, do you think my choices would make it past the censors? Sgt Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/2 "2007-05-20T23:41:16Z")
I like this for its ambiguity: **IM1 RU12** ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/3 "2007-05-20T23:49:31Z")
I had a Jeep Wrangler a few years ago, when I lived in SE Alabama. My plates said: GET DRTY. It was pretty cool riding down the main gulf strip in Panama City FL with people every few hundred yards screaming “Wooooo! Get Dirrrrrrt-aaaaay!” I’d respond with a _BEEP! BEEP!_ and a fist in the air. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/4 "2007-05-20T23:49:40Z")
My old plate said it all: **ZYMUR G**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/5 "2007-05-20T23:55:07Z")
I have an all black car now and I’m toying with the idea of: BKN BLAK ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/6 "2007-05-21T00:03:31Z")
[Here it is.](http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/5277/52007009oz6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/7 "2007-05-21T06:45:43Z")
I’m really infuriated about California’s special characters that are allowed on personalized plates. The special characters include a heart, a star, a hand, and a plus sign. What pisses me off is that these special characters are not readily available on a keyboard. Hell, they are not even symbols available on vBulletin as far as I can tell. So, my hilarious personalized plate will lose all its significance during this post: I♥\JOBS Son of a bitch, the joke goes straight out the window. I also tried to get this one, but it was taken. By the way, I thought of this way before it appeared on the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill, swear to god. 3M TA3 It’s EAT ME when you look at it in your rear view mirror. I do have a personalized license plate on my 58 VW single cab pickup. It says: IV BUS for Isla Vista Bus. Damn, I should get that thing running again. It really pisses me off when people put up indecipherable license plates. I am sure that I am in the top 99 percentile when deciphering personalized plates, but many make NO SENSE! If people can’t figure out what it means, why bother? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/8 "2007-05-21T07:45:57Z")
I’m too much like my Daddy. Personalized plates ?? Why they’d remember that and be able to tell the cops !! 😉 My plate is personalized only in that it is a Cattlemens’ and Farmers’ tag, complete with bonus cute cows. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/9 "2007-05-21T15:22:44Z")
I’ve toyed with the idea of getting ZIPPERJJ (which is my handle everywhere) or my company’s name (seven letters long) but I am way too cheap. I also thought of GEEKGRL or HTMLGRL but…meh. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/10 "2007-05-21T15:36:43Z")
When I lived in Virginia, I had a Parrothead plate: **CDLZRD**. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/11 "2007-05-21T16:12:43Z")
See my username. I believe amatuer radio plates are cheaper than normal vanity plates in MN. Could be wrong though. Brian ---
**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:** [May 21, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/12 "2007-05-21T16:25:40Z")
With a little help from **rowrrbazzle** , I happily drive around with “867-V309” on my tags. If you can figure it out, you’ll know my first name (and vice-versa). 🙂 One cool thing about them is that they’re “stealth” personalized plates: standard plate numbers here follow a LLL-NNNN pattern, and most people don’t notice that mine starts with numbers instead of letters. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/13 "2007-05-21T16:55:35Z")
STLRAMS ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/14 "2007-05-21T16:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] I’m too much like my Daddy. Personalized plates ?? Why they’d remember that and be able to tell the cops !! 😉 [/QUOTE] 😛 I have one of many green Civics in the area but have distinguished him with stickers like [“Hello My Name is Royal”](http://www.cafepress.com/buy/Hello+Royal/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_14845042/opt_/fpt _________F______ P___b7_a2/c_368/). I’m sunk. I tried for Royal on my plate but many variations were taken, maybe because of Royalton. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/15 "2007-05-21T17:05:35Z")
I agree with **NinetyWt** ; better to have anonymous plates (or several), than something witnesses can readily remember. I toyed with getting a personalized plate that meant absolutely nothing but looked almost like it did, just to frustrate folks like **Darryl Lict**. My Mom was a court reporter & back in the '70s one of her coworkers had a personalized plate that said “fuck you” in machine shorthand. To the rest of us ordinary citizens it looked like “XTYD U” or somethng. But the folks in her office loved it. About a year ago I read a story in the mainstream press about a guy someplace who had the plate “GOT MILF” for awhile until some bluenose bitched to the DMV. They took it away & charged him with some pretty serious offense for lying on his app. Apparently in that state you had to explain on the app what the plate meant and he’d invented some bogus organization whose initials were MILF. Fun while it lasted though. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/16 "2007-05-21T17:18:48Z")
I had “DRUID” for a few years (after I stopped doing the kind of driving that relied on anonymity) but then got Masonic plates. They aren’t personalized, just have the Square and Compasses, and don’t carry an extra fee for renewal like the personalized plates do. As a teenager I wanted “OFPDEOC” but we only had 6 spaces back then. Organization For Prevention, Detection, and Elimination of Communism ---
**Author:** ![theater\_in\_a\_crowded\_fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@theater\_in\_a\_crowded\_fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theater_in_a_crowded_fire)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/17 "2007-05-22T00:14:09Z")
We bought an (almost) new Pontiac Grand Prix recently and decided we wanted to get a personalized plate. The tag reads ALASIPI. We live in Mississippi (which is where I was born and raised) and my wife is from just over the state line in Alabama. We have an inside joke about her now being an “Alasipian”. Apparently not a very good joke, since the tag confuses a lot people. Only about 1 in 4 seem to get what we were going for and the ones who do are usually people who know us really well. One coworker thought it was supposed to say “Alas, I pee”. Oh well, it’s still funny to us. I guess that’s what counts. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/18 "2007-05-22T01:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] I’m too much like my Daddy. Personalized plates ?? Why they’d remember that and be able to tell the cops !! 😉 [/QUOTE] That’s precisely why you should get a personalized plate. Consider: XKXVXY or COQOU0 perhaps: NMWHMN L1LI1T You get the idea 😉 ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/19 "2007-05-22T01:21:35Z")
Back when I played a lot of bridge, I had 7NT (for seven no-trump). An amazing number of people kept asking why the DOT left the “H” off and why I was so proud of coming in seventh. Currently I have I Y Q 2. Disgustingly cute, but the kids got it for me as a present. It’s how I signed their birthday cards when they were little. “Love, Mom. I Y Q 2” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864/20 "2007-05-22T01:32:06Z")
I have **IDSFA** on my license plate, so that if anyone asks me what it stands for, I can say it doesn’t stand for anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-or-would-be-your-personalized-plate/404864.md?page=2)