Strange Licence Plates
Stephe. No V. No N.
In article <91189.00...@CUNYVM.BITNET> <sh941727%ccnyvme...@cunyvm.cuny.edu> writes:
>speaking of strange license plate :
>
>I heard that Erica Jong has a license plate that reads "QUIM". :-)
>Any other clever ones?
> I saw one in northern Virginia last week that read
> 8BB8B8B
> Any suggestions?
Sure! That's known (to my friends at least) as a "Stealth Licence
Plate".
You see, it's VERY hard for the police to determine exactly WHAT the
numbers/letters are when radioing or writing the plate number. This
presumably protects the car in such situations as: Speed traps, licence
checks, U.S.W. etc...
Try glancing at it and saying the number...Got it wrong? I'm not
surprised!
Other goodies I've seen here in CT (6 character plates) are:
HHHHH
GG6GGG
II1I1I
Get it now?
Interresting, eh? I read that some states have outlawed them,
which leads me to the following Urban Legend:
I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
stealth design, whatever...
Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
Do they just reject it?
Please note that this is CROSSPOSTED to rec.autos for the
reason that they may know better answers than those in
alt.folklore.urban...Please ammend the "Newsgroups:" line
if what you say is not directly related to this particular
post...I doubt that Craig Shergold interests the "r.a"ers
and I am pretty sure that Engine Troubles have NOTHING
to do with "a.f.u"ers...
Also, to add to another a.f.u thread, I believe that the
expensive porsche of Bill Gates which was impounded was
a Porsche 959...also, there is word of a 959 which made it
into America illegally and has been spotted in the
San Fransisco Bay area a few times...(this from AutoWeek)
Later!
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(Stephe. No V. No N.) writes:
+I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
+licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
+stealth design, whatever...
+Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
+all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
+in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
+Do they just reject it?
Yes, this is true in California. A case about two months ago
was present where a woman lawyer of Italian ancestry had a
license plate with the term "DAGO". The Department of Motor
Vehicles did a check (either due to a complaint from another
motorist or just a check they do when they update their
'No No' database) and told her that she had to turn it in.
Note this is a case after the plate had been issued. Last I
heard, she was going to fight this action by the DMV. If I'm
wrong on any or all of these details, I'm sure someone with
nothing better to do than I will correct me.
Terry
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The DMV in California tried to make the owner of the plate "4 JIHAD" turn in
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finally relented after he explained several dozen times that his first name
was Jihad.
In the early days of plate screening, when the DMV wasn't as adept at it, I
did see the plate "FC NXN" slip through and get assigned to someone.
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Brian Scearce
> of Bill Gates' that was impounded was a Porsche 959. Also, there
> is word of a 959 which made it into America illegally and has been
> spotted in the San Fransisco Bay area a few times.
And Bill's car is impounded in Oakland... are you suggesting that
Customs agents are out *joyriding* in Bill Gates' car? I don't
believe it.
Brian "We're going to have to confiscate this beer, too" Scearce
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>In article <LANCER.91J...@wpi.WPI.EDU> lan...@wpi.WPI.EDU
> (Stephe. No V. No N.) writes:
>
> +I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
> +licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
> +stealth design, whatever...
> +Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
> +all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
> +in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
> +Do they just reject it?
>
>Yes, this is true in California. A case about two months ago
>was present where a woman lawyer of Italian ancestry had a
>license plate with the term "DAGO". The Department of Motor
>Vehicles did a check (either due to a complaint from another
>motorist or just a check they do when they update their
>'No No' database) and told her that she had to turn it in.
>
>Note this is a case after the plate had been issued. Last I
>heard, she was going to fight this action by the DMV. If I'm
>wrong on any or all of these details, I'm sure someone with
>nothing better to do than I will correct me.
The above story may be related to the following...
Not so very long ago an Italian ethnic rights group persuaded
the CA DMV to double check its records for plates containing
slurs (ie wop, dago, etc). Several people who were spoofing
their own heritage were rather upset. The worst/best of the
cases was the older couple whose car had previously proclaimed
DO WOP and whose explanations that it refered to a musical style
were not believed to be a valid reason to make an exception to the
prohibition.
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John Abt
>licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
>stealth design, whatever...
>Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
>all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
>in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
>Do they just reject it?
In California, yes. It's somebody's job, and they reject anything
they have decoded as "inappropriate" (and they are very good at it).
Also, applicants who have been rejected have the right to appeal.
These hearings are even better than the plates themselves. For
example, in a recent case, the judge listened intently as an
applicant explained that "4NIK8" was actually a gift for his
brother Nick, who of course owned a car with a V8.
John Abt "SEXRXRR"
Grass Valley Group
Mark Atwood
>
>In the early days of plate screening, when the DMV wasn't as adept at it, I
>did see the plate "FC NXN" slip through and get assigned to someone.
>
that I was surprised made it through the DMV. The plate read "69". (Then
again, maybe it was completely innocent.. Yeah, right.)
I had just read an article in the Anchorage Times about custom plate and
the fact that the DMV checked custom plate requests for "inappropriate"
plates.
..Mark Atwood
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Ben Sloan
In article <27...@gold.gvg.tek.com>, jo...@gold.gvg.tek.com (John Abt) writes:
> In article <LANCER.91J...@wpi.WPI.EDU> lan...@wpi.WPI.EDU (Stephe. No V. No N.) writes:
> >... I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
> >licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
> >stealth design, whatever...
>
> These hearings are even better than the plates themselves. For
> example, in a recent case, the judge listened intently as an
> applicant explained that "4NIK8" was actually a gift for his
> brother Nick, who of course owned a car with a V8.
>
Years ago I had a neighbor who was a fairly quiet, balding, insurance salesman
type. However, he had a Walter Mitty complex when it came to driving. He
had a huge Cadillac Coupe Deville which he drove at top speed, sometimes
even passing traffic in a turn-only center lane (probably read a little
too much Hunter S. Thompson). Anyhow, his license plates read "CMFIC", which,
especially if you've been in the Armed Services, you'll recognize as the
abbreviation for top-dog guy called the "Chief Mother-F*****-In-Charge", or
commanding officer.
The local DMV had their purge of unacceptable license plates and said Mr.
Rodgers' plates had to go. They printed in the newspaper various ex-Marines
confident translations of "CMFIC". They had a picture of Mr. Rodgers and his
Cadillac and his version of things. He claimed that "CMFIC" was a private
joke between he and his dear wife and meant, simply, "Clergy Make Friends
In Church". The plates were replaced about a week later.
Ben Sloan
b...@emx.utexas.edu
Joe Simpson
> I had just read an article in the Anchorage Times about custom plate and
>the fact that the DMV checked custom plate requests for "inappropriate"
>plates.
They check in N.C., too - although apparently Richard Adams' "Watership
Down" is not among their reference material. I saw a Volkswagen Rabbit last
year bearing the N.C. tag "O HRAKA".
Great thing about personalized tags - they can create a thread in ANY
newsgroup.
BTW - mine reads "1N ON MT".
-joe
Doug Fierro
>
>You see, it's VERY hard for the police to determine exactly WHAT the
>numbers/letters are when radioing or writing the plate number. This
>presumably protects the car in such situations as: Speed traps, licence
>checks, U.S.W. etc...
>
>Try glancing at it and saying the number...Got it wrong? I'm not
>surprised!
>
>Other goodies I've seen here in CT (6 character plates) are:
>
>HHHHH
>
>GG6GGG
>
>II1I1I
>
>Get it now?
I just saw on the news that Washington is recalling all plates with
the letters "DWI" in them. Apparently they have stamped several plates
like this, and people who get their plates with this configuration
are kind of upset.
>
>Interresting, eh? I read that some states have outlawed them,
>which leads me to the following Urban Legend:
>
>I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
>licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
>stealth design, whatever...
>Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
>all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
>in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
>Do they just reject it?
Yes, this is true. It's not like someone sits there and goes through
all of the plates; each applicaton is approved before it gets sent to be
stamped. Here in CA you must explain why you have chosen the pattern
you did. I guess they could reject it if you didn't give a satisfactory
answer.
Doug
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>
> Yes, this is true. It's not like someone sits there and goes through
>stamped. Here in CA you must explain why you have chosen the pattern
>you did. I guess they could reject it if you didn't give a satisfactory
>answer.
>
This must be new, because several years ago, when I ordered PHYNNS for
my '62 Cadillac, nobody asked me to explain it.
Anyone remember the trick with the calculator; add up a bunch of numbers,
totalling 71077345, then turn it upside down to see ShELLOIL spelled out.
Anybody tried that strategy to obscure an "offensive" license plate?
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John Wichers
>I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
>licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
>stealth design, whatever...
>Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
>all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
>in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
>Do they just reject it?
yup, yup, they reject it, yup. Glad we could help you out.
Actually, if you're interested, get the book _Gr8_Pl8s_, put
out by a women who did just that for 10 years or so - she
got to check for hidden, obscene, derogatory, et al. messages
in custom plate applications. If anyone's interested I can
track down the author's name, the book's ISBN #, etc.
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Eugene Chu
>>In article <1991Jul11....@vicorp.com> jme...@vicorp.com (John Methot) writes:
>>
>>You see, it's VERY hard for the police to determine exactly WHAT the
>>numbers/letters are when radioing or writing the plate number. This
>>presumably protects the car in such situations as: Speed traps, licence
>>checks, U.S.W. etc...
>>
>>
>>HHHHH
>>
>>GG6GGG
>>
>>II1I1I
>>
>>Get it now?
>
> I just saw on the news that Washington is recalling all plates with
>the letters "DWI" in them. Apparently they have stamped several plates
>like this, and people who get their plates with this configuration
>are kind of upset.
My parents once got a set of plates for are cars that were:
LSD001
LSD002
LSD003
They didn't understand the significance, but everyone else did.
These plates are exteremely easy to remember.
eyc
Tom Neff
The US State Dept distributes plates to foreign embassies, consulates
and missions for use on their automobiles. These special "diplomatic
plates" have a distinctive red-white-and-blue color scheme. The
identification sequence is of the form
AB 12345
where each country has its own two-letter code. I don't have the list
in front of me, but they are supposedly randomly reassigned every 10
years when then plates expire.
Well, the last plate assignment took place in the early Reagan
administration. The Soviets opened their packages and out came
FC 101
FC 102
FC 103
...
which they thought nothing in particular about, and they happily mounted
the new plates. Then comes the leak: apparently some Foggy Bottom
smartass had an acronym in mind! When the Soviets got word, they were
seriously miffed and a diplomatic flap ensued. Unfortunately for their
moral leverage, they were busy putting the finishing touches on our new,
microphone-encrusted Embassy building. So nothing happened, and the
plates are still there.
Sue Klefstad
Some friends got a kick out of seeing the plate
SMEGMA.
(For those without oed, smegma is the stuff those old men were
vacuuming off when their weiners got leaner.)
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Brad D. Clark
>In article <LANCER.91J...@wpi.WPI.EDU> lan...@wpi.WPI.EDU (Stephe. No V. No N.) writes:
>>In article <1991Jul11....@vicorp.com> jme...@vicorp.com (John Methot) writes:
>>
>>You see, it's VERY hard for the police to determine exactly WHAT the
>>numbers/letters are when radioing or writing the plate number. This
>>presumably protects the car in such situations as: Speed traps, licence
>>checks, U.S.W. etc...
>>
>>Try glancing at it and saying the number...Got it wrong? I'm not
>>surprised!
>>
>>Other goodies I've seen here in CT (6 character plates) are:
>>
>>HHHHH
>>
>>GG6GGG
>>
>>II1I1I
>>
>>Get it now?
In Oregon, right after the state approved Vanity Plates, I saw a truck
with the plate QQQQ. Wanna make bets on that one still being around?
Also, a few months ago, there was a Cal-Berkeley alum with a '66 Galaxy
running around w/ the plate FKSTNFD. He claimed it meant "Frankenstein's Ford"
but the Good People of Palo Alto thought they knew better! ;-)
I have enought problems with MY plates... since I am an Amateur Radio person,
I have my call on my tags, and people keep asking me what NP4AI means...
Brad
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numerals? :-)
Laura
Steven Bellovin
In article <6529...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>
> Well, the last plate assignment took place in the early Reagan
> administration. The Soviets opened their packages and out came
>
> FC 101
> FC 102
> FC 103
FC on a license plate generally stands for ``foreign counsul'', a
different grade of diplomat.
ObUL: In New York, where parking is tight, lots of folks started
ordering vanity plates with FC on them. Eventually, the state caught
on -- New York City has lots of real consulates, after all. So folks
registered their cars in neighboring states, where the Motor Vehicles
Bureau didn't know what was happening. Others used other combinations
that were special in New York -- JSC is supposedly Justice of the
Supreme Court (the trial-level court in New York -- and that's true!),
so they could park in certain parts of downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan,
where the courts are.
Phil Gustafson
>which leads me to the following Urban Legend:
>
>I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
>licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
>stealth design, whatever...
>Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
>all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
>in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
>Do they just reject it?
>
test is administered by the highly skilled professionals who actually
_make_ the plates.
You see, they come from a wide variety of backgrounds, speak many languages,
and have usually had contact with lots of folks familiar with lots of curses.
And when hearing time comes around, something like "Lazlo protected the
State of California from vanity plates saying 'FUCK' in Estonian, Georgian,
and Serbo-Croatian" certainly can't hurt.
[ref: Various Sunday-supplement articles from boring news months.]
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Phil Gustafson
>did see the plate "FC NXN" slip through and get assigned to someone.
>
> - snopes
I have seen "QQQQ" and "VW SUX".
Before some thief cancelled the plate, I had "12X12X2".
Anthony DeBoer
> In article <91189.00...@CUNYVM.BITNET> <sh941727%ccnyvme...@cunyvm.cuny.edu> writes:
> >speaking of strange license plate :
>
>> 8BB8B8B
>> Any suggestions?
>
>Sure! That's known (to my friends at least) as a "Stealth Licence
>Plate".
>
>You see, it's VERY hard for the police to determine exactly WHAT the
>numbers/letters are when radioing or writing the plate number. This
>presumably protects the car in such situations as: Speed traps, licence
>checks, U.S.W. etc...
It seems to me, being a computer programmer (as I'm sure a disproportionate
share of other netters are), that if I was designing the license database, I'd
have the system keyed by a "normalized" form of what's actually on the plate
(it would store the actual value too). All B's would become 8's, all I's
would become 1's, all O's would become 0's, and so on, so any search for any
combination of seven 8's and B's would come up with that "stealth" plate, and
any request for issue of a different combination would be rejected as a
duplicate.
The other important feature would be a search for approximate or partial
plates, together with the vehicle type. For example, if a copper saw
XYZ-some three digits on a Mustang, the computer should be able to quickly
tell how many Mustangs are registered among those 1000 plates.
Someone was telling me that years ago already, the police had a bit of a chat
with a friend of his the morning after an inconclusive high-speed chase in
which this individual's car was one of three registered in that province that
matched the description. (I somehow suspect that if they had been able to
narrow it down to one, they'd have done a bit more than just talking.)
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Jonathan Kiparsky
good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
one for quite a ways... :-)
-jon
pan...@st1.vuw.ac.nz
> In article <1991Jul11....@pa.dec.com> mikk...@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>
>>In the early days of plate screening, when the DMV wasn't as adept at it, I
>>did see the plate "FC NXN" slip through and get assigned to someone.
>>
> When I was in Alaska a couple a years ago I saw in Wasilla a cutom plate
> that I was surprised made it through the DMV. The plate read "69". (Then
> again, maybe it was completely innocent.. Yeah, right.)
> I had just read an article in the Anchorage Times about custom plate and
> the fact that the DMV checked custom plate requests for "inappropriate"
> plates.
Here in New Zealand I've seen one better-only it was a _non-custom_ plate.
Our motorbike plates take the form :
up to three-digit number
up to three-letter code
Of course, the inevitable happened, and New Plymouth has a motorbike registered
with the title "69 SEX"-all poifectly legal-like, and without paying for a
custom plate. The real joke is that the bike itself is a weenie little 125cc
(I think) job. Hardly goes with the image conjured up by the plate.
>
> ..Mark Atwood
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> mat...@biostats.med.utah.edu
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Along those same lines I saw one that was
ILUV2BEX
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>jkip...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Kiparsky) writes:
>>My all-time favorite plates were on a Volkswagen Rabbit, driven by a very
>>good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
>>one for quite a ways... :-)
>>-jon
>Along those same lines I saw one that was
> ILUV2BEX
Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
jen
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Then there was the rumored South Texas vanity plate: BREAD 8. Those of you
who know border slang can figure this out.
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G. Hurtault
>In article <1991Jul12....@spool.cs.wisc.edu> lau...@romano.cs.wisc.edu (Laura Berg) writes:
>>How about a licence plate that says LXIX, which of couse, is 69 in roman
>>numerals? :-)
>>
>>Laura
>
>Then there was the rumored South Texas vanity plate: BREAD 8. Those of you
>who know border slang can figure this out.
>
>-arthur
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Robert Dusek
[bunch o' stuff deleted for space...]
>
>The above story may be related to the following...
>Not so very long ago an Italian ethnic rights group persuaded
>the CA DMV to double check its records for plates containing
>slurs (ie wop, dago, etc). Several people who were spoofing
>their own heritage were rather upset. The worst/best of the
>cases was the older couple whose car had previously proclaimed
>DO WOP and whose explanations that it refered to a musical style
>were not believed to be a valid reason to make an exception to the
>prohibition.
>--
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They (DMV) also demanded that a schoolteacher turn in her personalized
plate because it was considered derogatory to those of Italian descent.
The plate? "PEDAGOG"
^^^^
Robert Dusek
rm...@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com
Eugene Chu
It might bring someone's attention to notice that LXIX might sound real close
to LIX (licks). I heard about some heavy metal rock bands having their
albums come under fire from some self proclaimed anally-retentive self-
righteous moral-majority types simply because the album or one of its
songs contained that word. Anyway, does this stuff border on
belonging in somewhere like alt.sex?
eyc
Tad Cook
> > (Stephe. No V. No N.) writes:
> >
> > +I've heard it said that some/all states in the US check all
> > +licence plate applications for profanity, the above mentioned
> > +stealth design, whatever...
> > +Is this true? Is it really somebody's job to look through
> > +all the applications for the occasional "A55H0L" or "PHUKU"
> > +in the batch? And what really happens when they find one?
> > +Do they just reject it?
> >
This is true in the state of Washington. One thing I don't understand
though, is I keep seeing some woman on the freeway in the Seattle area
with a plate that says RAINSUX. I though "sucks" referred to oral/genital
sex!?!
If they can ban BITCH or TIHS (they dont like the way that looks in
the rear view mirror!), why do they let "sucks" through?
Tad Cook
Seattle, WA
Packet: KT7H @ N7DUO.WA.USA.NA
Phone: 206/527-4089
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or, t...@ssc.UUCP
or, kt...@polari.uucp
or, 328...@mcimail.com
Dave Tiller N2KAU
I've seen "23x3 ME" and "1BADBJ". The latter was on the President of my
college's daughter's car!
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Kaleb Keithley
Couldn't resist tho'.
In article <12...@ssc.UUCP> t...@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes:
>This is true in the state of Washington. One thing I don't understand
>though, is I keep seeing some woman on the freeway in the Seattle area
>with a plate that says RAINSUX. I though "sucks" referred to oral/genital
>sex!?!
Really Tad? What is it when you *suck* down a beer. What is it when you
drink a milk shake through a straw? Yup, I went down to the Dairy
Queen t'other day and had "oral/genital sex" with my chocolate malt and
a straw. There was milk everywhere. Damned if it wasn't frigid though.
How about your vacuum cleaner? Does it "oral/genital sex" up the
dirt in your carpet?
Or, how about "this job oral/genital sex". Just doesn't quite convey the
same thing as "this job sucks", does it?
Maybe, just maybe, she was referring to the fact that the Pacific North-
west gets something like 300 days of rain a year?
>If they can ban BITCH or TIHS (they dont like the way that looks in
>the rear view mirror!), why do they let "sucks" through?
Ob cars/ob sex: License plate *frame* seen in the San Jose area:
"Wine me, dine me, 69 me".
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Arthur Salazar
Sorry I meant to restrict the posting to the southwest. Mea Culpa, Mea
Culpa....
In Spanish: Bread translates to Pan, 8 translates to ocho. Panocho is
a vulger term for female reprductive anatomy.
Larry Akers
A friend on mine in California had a girlfriend with a new (this was
in 85) Camaro that had the plate 2CRAZ4U. The 4 was above the U with
a line in between them. This is the only plate that I have ever seen
with two letters/numbers stacked like that.
Needless to say she was definately to crazy for him and they parted
wayz. Quite a wild woman, but lots of fun to party with...
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Greg Farrelly
>In <1991Jul15.1...@neon.Stanford.EDU> ra...@neon.Stanford.EDU (Rafael Furst) writes:
>>jkip...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Kiparsky) writes:
>>>My all-time favorite plates were on a Volkswagen Rabbit, driven by a very
>>>good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
>>>one for quite a ways... :-)
>>>-jon
>>Along those same lines I saw one that was
>> ILUV2BEX
>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
>jen
>--
While you're at it, can you explain the top one too "FX..".
Do you have to have a really vivid imagination or perhaps be short sighted
so that the words just blur into their adulterated meaning?
I'll even accept e-mail if you think that your reply will highlight
my extreme ignorance.
Greg Farrelly.
rxx...@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
"the rain in spain falls merrily and it gathers no moss."
i...@dmsdev.waterloo.ncr.com
:-> though, is I keep seeing some woman on the freeway in the Seattle area
:-> with a plate that says RAINSUX. I though "sucks" referred to oral/genital
:-> sex!?!
:->
:-> Tad Cook
:-> Seattle, WA
:-> Packet: KT7H @ N7DUO.WA.USA.NA
:-> Phone: 206/527-4089
:-> MCI Mail: 3288544
:-> Telex: 6503288544 MCI UW
:-> USENET:...uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!ssc!tad
:-> or, t...@ssc.UUCP
:-> or, kt...@polari.uucp
:-> or, 328...@mcimail.com
Jeez, and I always through that if something "sucked" it was lousy...
(When used like that, anyway...) So, unless you really like getting wet,
rain does suck...
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TIHZHO . You need to pass the car to get it .
GL
Patrick Wong
>
>In a rabbit, FXLK12 --> F*cks like 1 too
>
>>>> ILUV2BEX
>>
> This one has me mystified too.
>
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>"See the world...from inside a computer room!"
I think it is "I LOVE TO BE AS*ED".
Patrick
Christine Walsh
>>>>My all-time favorite plates were on a Volkswagen Rabbit, driven by a very
>>>>good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
>>>>one for quite a ways... :-)
In a rabbit, FXLK12 --> F*cks like 1 too
>
>>> ILUV2BEX
>
>>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
>>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
>>jen
>>--
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My wife and I were driving down Lake Shore Drive one afternoon, and the car
in front of us had 'SCHLONG' for tags!
You've got have a lot of bal...
I mean you've got to be a big swinging dic..
well, you've got to be really confident to have that on your plate...
I don't think I can get out of this!
t-bone
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Robert T. Weverka
up spaces, I saw a car with the plates
U4RIA
Kevin Darling
Surprised he got the plate. Took me a few seconds to figure it out tho :-)
Len Howard
PROCRE8
And the alto in the church choir who works in advertising with the plate
FLAQUE
OK, just had to throw my $.02 worth in.......
Len Howard
amos shapir
Southern California, where apparently some drivers are smarter
than the DMV): "SWAN TED", "QQQQ", and more obvious, an Alfa Romeo
bearing the plate "ALFA Q".
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Rafael Furst
>brlw...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
>>In <1991Jul15.1...@neon.Stanford.EDU> ra...@neon.Stanford.EDU (Rafael Furst) writes:
>>>jkip...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Kiparsky) writes:
>>>>My all-time favorite plates were on a Volkswagen Rabbit, driven by a very
>>>>good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
>>>>one for quite a ways... :-)
>>>>-jon
>>>Along those same lines I saw one that was
>>> ILUV2BEX
>>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
>>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
>>jen
>>--
>While you're at it, can you explain the top one too "FX..".
>Do you have to have a really vivid imagination or perhaps be short sighted
>so that the words just blur into their adulterated meaning?
> I'll even accept e-mail if you think that your reply will highlight
> my extreme ignorance.
>Greg Farrelly.
>rxx...@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
>"the rain in spain falls merrily and it gathers no moss."
Here's my interpretation of both. The first one, "FXLK 12", is in
reference to the car being driven, a Rabbit, and the driver who "Fucks
like one too" (like a rabbit, that is).
The second one, "ILUV2BEX", if you interpret the X as a Roman numeral
10 reads: "I love to be eaten".
If anyone has other interpretations I'd like to hear them.
Dean Carpenter
gorgeous blonde, and driven *fast*. All you see is the smile, blonde
hair out the targa top, and the license plate :
YES I DO
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Bob Bourman
it had sexual connotations ??? I even explained about the car ! NO WAY JOSE'.
Rudi Rynders
ILUV2BEX
I love to be cross ?
Bruce BURGER
> west gets something like 300 days of rain a year?
Maybe the rain forests on the Olympic Peninsula get 300 days of rain
per year, but the figure in Seattle is about half that. Most of them
are consecutive, though...
Bruce
David Seghers
>>> ILUV2BEX
--
Possibly a comment on being divorced?
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Dave Mallery
as a court recorded applied for the following: "TP U BG". She appealed the
the ruling contending it stood for "If you can"; she claimed she took it
from a children's book about a little train. Apparently, the TP translates
to "if" or any "f" sound, the "U" to you, and the "BG" to any "k" or "ch"
sound using the stenographer's typewriter.
Constantinos A. Caroutas
>I wanted to get the plate "TAIL42 "for a whale tail Porsche, but they said
>it had sexual connotations ??? I even explained about the car ! NO WAY JOSE'.
Did they say what sexual connotations?
By the way, here in Colorado somebody tried to recall the license plates
of a neighbor of hers. The plates read "OUI OUI". "YES YES" in French
according to the owner, but dirty children's language according to the
offended neighbor. I think the "OUI OUI" owner managed to keep his plates.
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ses...@happy.colorado.edu
Stephen B Coy
Hint: The X is a roman numeral.
stephen
Ben Gamble
|Try K9STYL
I have. It's nice.
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Jon Noring
2KUM530
After getting them, I went to a friends house, and when she saw the plate,
she blushed and then laughed, and wanted to know when I "come"..
Funny thing, most of the 2KUM*** plates can be seen in the Livermore area
I wonder who got 2KUM269?
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Dan Hartung
>
>>>> ILUV2BEX
>
>The second one, "ILUV2BEX", if you interpret the X as a Roman numeral
>10 reads: "I love to be eaten".
>
>If anyone has other interpretations I'd like to hear them.
I thought it meant, "I love Tubex"
Dan "Have I got a Tubex for you, baby" Hartung
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Kenneth Finnegan
Sorry, guys. From the depths of my twisted mind I am pretty convinced that it is
I LOVE TUBEX. Tubex is a type of rubber tubing. For details see alt.sex.bondage.
KF
Gregory Robert Steinke
the plate has 1(One) on it, but his registration has l (12th letter).
"Oh darn, another parking ticket with ...1... <rip>"
Greg
jeff.sherota
>There's an ice blue Ferrari 308 around here, driven by the ubiquitous
>gorgeous blonde, and driven *fast*. All you see is the smile, blonde
>hair out the targa top, and the license plate :
>
> YES I DO
>
The Columbus, Ohio equivalent was a woman of similar description, driving a
gold Nissan Pular. I use to set her zipping around the outer-belt all the
time, but I haven't seen her for a while. Her plate reads:
TRY IT
Jeff
Kaleb Keithley
>Last year we got our new plates here in California. Ours was numbered:
>
>2KUM530
>
>I wonder who got 2KUM269?
Several years ago a woman I knew received 265 YOO; I wonder who got the
fourth one after that?
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Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.
John Wichers
>Jeez, and I always through that if something "sucked" it was lousy...
>(When used like that, anyway...) So, unless you really like getting wet,
>rain does suck...
It just doesn't swallow, that's all...
--John "there's no such thing as gravity, either" Wichers
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mailhost
| rxx...@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Farrelly) writes:
|>brlw...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
|>>In <1991Jul15.1...@neon.Stanford.EDU> ra...@neon.Stanford.EDU (Rafael Furst) writes:
|>>>jkip...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Kiparsky) writes:
|
|>>>Along those same lines I saw one that was
|
|>>> ILUV2BEX
|
|>>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
|>>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
|
| 10 reads: "I love to be eaten".
|
| If anyone has other interpretations I'd like to hear them.
Two I thought of:
"I love to be EX" i.e. I'm happy to be divorced.
"I love to Becks" i.e. I love to drink Beck's beer.
But I think your interpretation is correct.
Mark B. Kaminsky mkam...@cvbnet.prime.com
Computervision/Prime Computer, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
My goal is a simple one: To live forever - or die trying.
Barry Hunter
I've seen the Virginia equivalent. A women in a Ford Probe
with a plate that says...yea, you guessed it
PROBE ME
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Eric Oosterhof
GA P
On my 1974 Landcruiser 4X4:
74 X 4
Eric Oosterhof
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Bob Bourman
#>it had sexual connotations ??? I even explained about the car ! NO WAY JOSE'.
#Did they say what sexual connotations?
Not on the refusal notice, but I called the DMV and they mentioned it.
#By the way, here in Colorado somebody tried to recall the license plates
#of a neighbor of hers. The plates read "OUI OUI". "YES YES" in French
#according to the owner, but dirty children's language according to the
#offended neighbor. I think the "OUI OUI" owner managed to keep his plates.
An old girlfriend had "OUI" on her 308... Seems she did some modeling
for the magazine "OUI" !
#Constantinos A. Caroutas
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#----------
Jeffrey Curtis
>The Columbus, Ohio equivalent was a woman of similar description, driving a
>gold Nissan Pular. I use to set her zipping around the outer-belt all the
>time, but I haven't seen her for a while. Her plate reads:
>
> TRY IT
Along the same lines, I saw a Buick Grand National near Hope College
in Michigan with the same license plate - "TRY IT". Didn't see the driver.
Where I work, there's a man who drives a nice Corvette Stingray with
the license plate "NAM VETT" - ho, ho, ho.
>Jeff
Jeff
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> Try K9STYL
Or N-E-1-4-6T-9
NitrousOzzie
Constantinos A. Caroutas
Excuse me, but are there states that allow eight letters and numbers?
Colorado only allows six and I know some states allow seven.
Constantinos A. Caroutas
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Wayne Hathaway
VERY careful to weed out "offending" letter patterns, such as SEX
and FUK and the like. The weeding-out program wasn't smart enough
to keep from issuing the following plate, though:
000RGY
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HSNFFR
Cyrus Shafai
Their licence plates are
HIS JAG
HER JAG
OUR JAG
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Craig S. Williamson
<
< ILUV2BEX
< I love to be cross ?
Actually I think the answer is: I love to be eaten.
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Constantinos A. Caroutas
wa...@ultra.com (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
>California also uses three digits and three letters, but they are
>VERY careful to weed out "offending" letter patterns, such as SEX
>and FUK and the like. The weeding-out program wasn't smart enough
>to keep from issuing the following plate, though:
> 000RGY
Colorado's designer plates have a format that is quite safe: LNL-NNN
where L=letter, N=number.
Cathi A Cook
>Colorado's designer plates have a format that is quite safe: LNL-NNN
>where L=letter, N=number.
O4Q.....
>Constantinos A. Caroutas
"anyone wanna finish the joke?"
-rocker
Patrick L Humphrey
No thanks. :-) But even with two alpha/four numbers in use on light truck
plates in Texas, that hasn't prevented gems like "RU 469" and "FU 692" from
being issued. (Of course, the two-alpha-first rule went out the window
when all the combinations were exhausted, so now the numbers go first with
leading zeros if necessary, so now we have "0469 RU". Progress marches
on...)
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or TIH2-TA3 (look at this using a mirror (as in rearview))
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NCRegion-Sports Car Club of America a year back, and
made one of our officers mad....She wanted it for her
Miata, but didn't check in time. I left it available
for a year, so she could get it and when she didn't,
I snapped it up! <heh, heh, heh!>
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><
>< ILUV2BEX
>< I love to be cross ?
>Actually I think the answer is: I love to be eaten.
> cr...@toontown.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (home)
<<<* Methinks it would read :"I love to be *divorced*". *>>>
GRE.
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Kok Chen
>cc43...@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Constantinos A. Caroutas) writes:
>>Colorado's designer plates have a format that is quite safe: LNL-NNN
>>where L=letter, N=number.
>O4Q.....
How about X3S-690. (Helps if the car has flipped and is resting
on it's roof.)
Kok Chen, AA6TY kc...@apple.com
Apple Computer, Inc.
steven.a.zubatkin
How about "I love to be kissed". You know when you sign a greeting
card to your loved ones, you add "XOXOXOXO ..." to mean kisses and
hugs.
Steve Zubatkin
Morristown, NJ
Barry Padgett
>
>> Try K9STYL
>
> Or N-E-1-4-6T-9
A friend of mine had basicly the same tag.
NE1469 his second choice was ANY1468....
Barry
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Barry Padgett
>
>> Try K9STYL
>
> Or N-E-1-4-6T-9
A friend of mine had basicly the same tag.
NE1469 his second and third choices were ANY1469 and 68 IOU1....
John Hughes
bpa...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Padgett) writes:
...some other stuff...
A friend of mine had basicly the same tag.
NE1469 his second choice was ANY1468....
T-Shirt from Algol-68 conference at Hull Universtity...
Algol-68, the next best thing to 69
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Tad Cook
> In article <12...@ssc.UUCP> t...@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes:
(stuff deleted about how the state wont let you put obscene/profane
expressions on license plates)
> :-> This is true in the state of Washington. One thing I don't understand
> :-> though, is I keep seeing some woman on the freeway in the Seattle area
> :-> with a plate that says RAINSUX. I though "sucks" referred to oral/genital
> :-> sex!?!
>
> Jeez, and I always through that if something "sucked" it was lousy...
> (When used like that, anyway...) So, unless you really like getting wet,
> rain does suck...
Oh, it does mean that! But then so does SHITTY or FUCKED. But you
can't put shitty or fucked on a license plate in our state.
Why is "sucks" allowed?
Tad Cook
Seattle, WA
Packet: KT7H @ N7DUO.WA.USA.NA
Phone: 206/527-4089
MCI Mail: 3288544
Telex: 6503288544 MCI UW
USENET:...uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!ssc!tad
or, t...@ssc.UUCP
or, kt...@polari.uucp
or, 328...@mcimail.com
Michael Weiss
and all:
RTHQUAK
Oh, and there was the one on the Delorean in Back to the Future:
OUTATIME
but that wasn't a real plate...it was one of the plastic repros, and you
wouldn't be able to see the plate except for one or two frames of the movie.
Rent it and freeze it when the car first goes "into the future" for one
minute...the plate falls off the back and goes spinning. You'll have to freeze
it at exactly the right moment. In all three movies, that's the only time you
see that plate, too.
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One I tried to get but was rejected here in Texas (I don't know how
they figured it out!) was :
3M TA3
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-In front of the Pharmacy with a ticket for expired meter in the 15 minute pick
-up spaces, I saw a car with the plates
- U4RIA
That was a visiting Russian ham radio operator with the call U4RIA :-).
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Tom Kim
>
>One I tried to get but was rejected here in Texas (I don't know how
>they figured it out!) was :
>
> 3M TA3
>
>When viewed in a mirror, the '3's look like 'E's. Think about it.
Umm, if you have ever seen the Beastie Boys album, it's on there. Very
well known, so that's probaby why you didn't get it.
--Tom Kim
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Doug Fierro
>
>One I tried to get but was rejected here in Texas (I don't know how
>they figured it out!) was :
>
> 3M TA3
Probably because that is the one biggest, most common known crypted licence
plate in the whole country.
But maybe not in Texas :-)
Doug
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James T. Green
6UALDV8
(Hint: Read the "6" as the Germans would - sex)
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Ben Gamble
| RU2BZ46
Oooh, best one yet!
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h philip chen
>>>> ILUV2BEX
>>
>>>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
>>>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
>>>jen
> This is what I love about personalized plates- that everyone interprets
> it every possible way except the way you originally wanted to be thought of!
>
> Ok, Jen, I've seen the following interpretations of ILUV2BEX:
>
> I love Tube-X (apparently some alt.sex.bondage people wandered over here :-)
> I love to be eaten
> I love to be ten
> I love to be cross
> I love to be divorced
>
> I'm sure we'll see more before this thread dies..
yup Doug, you're right! here's one more...
let X = roman 10 = tan (as in sun-tan)
therefore ILUV2BEX = I love to be tanned -- perfect for a convertible...!
-philip ("0 wait") ch...@athena.ecs.csus.edu
Bill Berbenich
(Hint: IV is roman numerals for four.)
Evan Leibovitch
>they figured it out!) was :
>
> 3M TA3
>
>When viewed in a mirror, the '3's look like 'E's. Think about it.
Cute, but kind of a waste if used in a state with no front plates...
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will find the ever-clever "3M TA3" on the plane...
Full of some useful tips, too, I am:
Ozymandias
Doug Fierro
>>>>good-looking blonde- FXLK 12. Needless to say, my friend and I followed that
>>>>one for quite a ways... :-)
>>>>-jon
>
>
>>>Along those same lines I saw one that was
>
>>> ILUV2BEX
>
>>Not to be a pain or anything but I have a learning disability and would
>>love to be let in on the joke...could someone e-mail me what it means?
>>jen
This is what I love about personalized plates- that everyone interprets
it every possible way except the way you originally wanted to be thought of!
Ok, Jen, I've seen the following interpretations of ILUV2BEX:
I love Tube-X (apparently some alt.sex.bondage people wandered over here :-)
I love to be eaten
I love to be ten
I love to be cross
I love to be divorced
I'm sure we'll see more before this thread dies..
Doug
William C. St.Croix
>How about:
> 6UALDV8
When I sold my Camaro, the woman that bought it got a personalized plate
that was similar. It was simply DV8.
>
>(Hint: Read the "6" as the Germans would - sex)
>
Some of you wonder why you don't get the plates that you ask for, they
might be taken by someone else already. She told me that she applied for
3 different ones and got only the DV8, which was her last choice.
Bill
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