BS: Vanity tags

Subject: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 06:52 PM

Looked first, no existing thread on topic.

Saw MU67LY a while back, and was so impressed I followed the guy and agreed, yes, music *is* heavenly.

Saw 420 PONYS today. Either a potsmoker who likes small beers, or...

...a Cornish folkie, my bet!

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 08:15 PM

Sorry Mrrzy "420 PONYS", I don't get it.
If you're thinking of Kipling "Smugglers' Song" it's "Five and twenty ponies"

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: EBarnacle
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 09:16 PM

Back in the '70s, before the DMV became more aware, I saw "PUGMAHON"

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 09:50 PM

While driving near the famous Watergate Hotel in Wash DC, about 1978, I saw a VW van... with curtained windows.. bearing the license plate "DIOXIN". I have no idea whether they were promoting it or just keeping the name in public view....
   Interestingly, I knew then, a guy working at the EPA who later became the head of the Dioxin project, dedicated to monitoring it and cleaning up contaminated sites.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Jos
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 03:12 AM

There are at least two earlier threads on this:

/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65371#1076039

and

/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=108472#2257001

And I remember contributing to another thread but can't remember the thread title.

My contribution was a Portaloo emptying truck : T01 LET5

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 04:26 AM

Files ' not found ' Jos.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Jos
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 05:19 AM

How odd, maybe the linkmaker isn't working. If I put https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=108472 or https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=65371#1076039 into an AOL search or a Bing search they take me straight to the thread (but not in Google).

I found them using the Mudcat search, so try that.
The thread titles are

Vanity License Plate... your caption

and

'Look at me' vehicle numberplates

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 09:16 AM

I learned it in Hungary as FOUR and twenty ponies but I have heard it as FIVE and twenty.

I just loved the idea.

And I looked for vanity, tags, plates, and license before starting this thread. Good-faith efforts were made.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: JHW
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 05:55 AM

In the UK people invent them from regular plates but I was told in US (maybe some states) You could have anything not in use. ie No regime of numbers and letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 09:24 AM

There's a limit (usually no more than 8 characters) some combinations aren't available (FCKYOU, you instance). Some states are allowing ampersands and other punctuation marks. I've seen ELKHNTR, 2TALL4U, and a variety spelled in L33T. You cannot use a plate for political purposes, so no 4MOREYRS. Years back, Illinois would give you a plate with your choice of a combination of letters and numbers on it for the price of a regular, random, plate; I don't know if that's still the case.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: DMcG
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 09:43 AM

I saw a vanity recently that was something like

444MMM

A sort of impersonal number plate?

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 10:06 AM

An upmarket (did I mean snobbish?) Guitar shop in my area regularly had a car registration K155 PRS.
In fact I hear stories of musicians who pop into the shop opposite. With names I have never heard of. But the shop girls obviously have.

And scroll down 2/3 of the page you will see more twee reg plates.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 12:03 AM

1WABBIT1

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 04:41 AM

Several years ago, I saw a dark green Range-Rover on the A1 near Peterborough, with the Reg. no. K9 VET.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 01:51 PM

In 10 or 20 millenia the only remaining examples of our writing will be gravestones and some liscense plates. Oh yes, and also cunniform clay tablets. Anything on computers or paper will be gone. Piecing together our civilization by way of vanity plates, cemetarys and cunniform tablets may miss the nuances of our way of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 02:10 PM

My favourite, that I heard of, did not see (but I did work at DVLA at the time), was OGO 2L.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 03:16 PM

Jos' links

Look at me numberplates
Vanity license plate

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 03:18 PM

There used to be one seen frequently in Cardiff 505 EXY

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 03:21 PM

AIR 404

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Helen
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 04:25 PM

I saw a plate recently here in Oz - KAY05S. I thought it was relevant to the current times, but I suspect the owner's name is Kay S(surname initial) and maybe her nickname is Chaos.

There is also a local business van with the plate LOXMIF. (It's a locksmith business.)

There have been news articles about a car left in an airport carpark since about March this year with a plate COVID19. It might have seemed like a bit of a clever joke when the plate was first registered but it isn't funny now.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Jos
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 04:30 AM

Thanks Nigel, for making my links work.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:16 AM

Mine for years was CD4 CI1. Senoufou's husband might get it...

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: JHW
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 02:18 PM

What is meant by window plates saying 'Baby on board'. Is the baby driving?

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 03:57 PM

No JHW, the baby is riding a surfboard or maybe sitting on an ironing board.

Ok Mrrzy, I give up! CD4 CI1 ?

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 04:18 PM

American Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Told you it was obscure...

All embassy cars' plates were CD for Corps Diplomatique. The French were 1, US was 4, Liberia 15, etc. All plates made in Côte d'Ivoire were CI, Abidjan was 1, Bingerville 2, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 06:31 PM

Well Mrrzy, thanks for the brain aerobics but I would never ever have figured that one out.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: robomatic
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 06:53 PM

The Goons:

Moriarty-
"Do you see those CD license plates?"

Copper-
"Cor Blimey!"

Moriarty-
"NO! Corps Diplomatique!"

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 11:05 PM

Haha!

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Jul 20 - 08:21 PM

Sure I've posted this one on some thread in the past, but there used to be a big estate car in our area, advertising on its side panels that it offered funerals and burial or cremation for pets in a pet cemetery. Registration R1P DOG.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Jul 20 - 02:00 AM

(It's a locksmith business.)

In NZ (Paraparaumu since you ask) there was a locksmith rejoicing in the name of Surelock Homes. And a Stroud traveling Hairdresser by the name of Shearlock Homes.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 07:05 AM

Last year I noticed a chunky black 4 by 4.
Registration plate was T800.
I had always wondered what they made after they melted the Terminator down.
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Helen
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 07:29 AM

Mr Red, I've seen some clever hairdressing salon names over the years, but the names escape me at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 09:30 AM

Shortened Curliz ?
I have a few local to me on my images page eg
Hair-O-Dynamics
Powercuts
Debonhair

I suppose the lettering should be in a Boo Font


I'll get my coat