Vanity plates

[Big Circus]

My best friend in high school (driving his dad's car at the time) had TI 3VOM, which is MOVE IT in a rear-view mirror.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

So you're the Ass Man?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

My best friend in high school (driving his dad's car at the time) had TI 3VOM, which is MOVE IT in a rear-view mirror.

See, states that require a front license tag can do that.

They're glorified bumper stickers. Some, as the content of this thread shows, are better than others.

 

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

My dad works for the government and said he passed a car in Maryland with a vanity plate for about a year before figuring out what it meant. The plate read:

3D4D2DT

He said it took him about a year to figure out the Ds stood for DITs in morse code.
3 DITs = S
4 DITs = H
2 DITs = I

So it was morse code for ****. He said he laughed for about 10 minutes when he finally figured it out.

I have one, too. In Pennsylvania it's a one-time $20 fee to get one, and it's much easier to remember than what my other plates were.

 

[Buck]

Vanity plates are only alowed if you also have a scotum totem hanging from the back of your vehicle.

 

[playthrough]

Florida has special golf plates, saw one the other day with BAD GFR on it. I respect that in sea of otherwise lame golf vanity plates.

 

[murphyc]

So you're the Ass Man?

According to the State of New York, you ARE the Ass Man.

 

[Birdscribe]

"Bob's MG" and the "Move it" in reverse are brilliant.

The best one I saw was back in my college days in the 80s: "IV NIK 8"

I later heard the California DMV pulled the plug on this one. A shame, really.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I remember a game show called Bumper Stumpers, based on deciphering vanity plates. Tough as hell. Then again, it was Canadian, so there's that.

 

[spikechiquet]

I've always wanted and when I moved to Ohio, I finally ordered it...so screw you :P :

<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291839_782758733467_40608176_38040848_2024477095_n.jpg">

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Ridiculous.

 

[SoCalScribe]

Wow, the new Ohio plates are terrible (not that the old ones weren't). Invest some money in your primary plate so it doesn't look like a spread from a digitally-illustrated children's book.

I am basically in rebellion since so many states started going to the flat, plastic plates over the last five years. Plastic plates for plastic cars, I guess.

For one, the lack of relief at certain angles and in certain light conditions makes it much harder for anyone to read plate numbers. Additionally, the combination of countless different specialty plate designs further complicate the difficulty in reading and recognizing plate numbers/letters. Public safety takes a back seat to celebrating 4-H or the state historical society or the Freemasons, I guess.

 

[spikechiquet]

Wow, the new Ohio plates are terrible (not that the old ones weren't). Invest some money in your primary plate so it doesn't look like a spread from a digitally-illustrated children's book.

I am basically in rebellion since so many states started going to the flat, plastic plates over the last five years. Plastic plates for plastic cars, I guess.

For one, the lack of relief at certain angles and in certain light conditions makes it much harder for anyone to read plate numbers. Additionally, the combination of countless different specialty plate designs further complicate the difficulty in reading and recognizing plate numbers/letters. Public safety takes a back seat to celebrating 4-H or the state historical society or the Freemasons, I guess.

Yeah, I wasn't thrilled with the design myself. I grew up in Michigan...give me a nice metal blue plate with white letters please!
Of course in Michigan, people will but plates to support Mich. St., Michigan, Eastern Mich or Central Mich. and all of them use a single block letters...so people try to get creative with them and spell off the school's letter. (Can't find any examples on a quick search, but here is the MSU plate):
<img src="http://www.michigan.gov/images/michigan_11784_7.jpg">

I had to have my plate "reviewed" before I got it and had to explain why I picked "Chiquet" before I could get it...do they not do that everywhere?

 

[Versatile]

Ridiculous.

I want this to be real so much that I'd be willing to send Moddy the money in the mail to make it happen.

 

[Bud_Bundy]

Buddy of mine, during his single days, had a vanity plate DATE ME

Changed quickly when he got married.

 

[trifectarich]

I wish I could get HANGUPNDRIV. Every time I see a driver on a cell phone I secretly wish they'd get hit by a meteor.

 

[Huggy]

I remember a game show called Bumper Stumpers, based on deciphering vanity plates. Tough as hell. Then again, it was Canadian, so there's that.

Quality ****ing programming that was.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Remain dumbfounded at the broad obliviousness of Virginia DOVs.

 

[Double J]

I remember a game show called Bumper Stumpers, based on deciphering vanity plates. Tough as hell. Then again, it was Canadian, so there's that.

Quality ****ing programming that was.

It totally was!

And I have a vanity plate. My grandmother bought it for me when I was 21 and in the process of buying my first car. It's a family nickname and the year I was born. Anybody who doesn't like it doesn't have to look at it, or they can honk on bobo. Whatever works. :)

 

[dooley_womack1]

HNKONBOBO