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16 Jul 20 - 06:52 PM (#4064495) Subject: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy 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! |
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16 Jul 20 - 08:15 PM (#4064502) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Nigel Parsons Sorry Mrrzy "420 PONYS", I don't get it. If you're thinking of Kipling "Smugglers' Song" it's "Five and twenty ponies" |
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16 Jul 20 - 09:16 PM (#4064506) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: EBarnacle Back in the '70s, before the DMV became more aware, I saw "PUGMAHON" |
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16 Jul 20 - 09:50 PM (#4064509) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Bill D 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. |
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17 Jul 20 - 03:12 AM (#4064530) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Jos 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 |
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17 Jul 20 - 04:26 AM (#4064541) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Dave Hanson Files ' not found ' Jos. Dave H |
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17 Jul 20 - 05:19 AM (#4064549) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Jos 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 |
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17 Jul 20 - 09:16 AM (#4064572) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy 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. |
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18 Jul 20 - 05:55 AM (#4064720) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: JHW 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. |
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18 Jul 20 - 09:24 AM (#4064746) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Rapparee 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. |
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18 Jul 20 - 09:43 AM (#4064748) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: DMcG I saw a vanity recently that was something like 444MMM A sort of impersonal number plate? |
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18 Jul 20 - 10:06 AM (#4064752) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mr Red 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. |
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19 Jul 20 - 12:03 AM (#4064853) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy 1WABBIT1 |
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19 Jul 20 - 04:41 AM (#4064868) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Backwoodsman Several years ago, I saw a dark green Range-Rover on the A1 near Peterborough, with the Reg. no. K9 VET. |
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19 Jul 20 - 01:51 PM (#4064937) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Donuel 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. |
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19 Jul 20 - 02:10 PM (#4064940) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler My favourite, that I heard of, did not see (but I did work at DVLA at the time), was OGO 2L. Robin |
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19 Jul 20 - 03:16 PM (#4064957) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Nigel Parsons Jos' links Look at me numberplates Vanity license plate |
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19 Jul 20 - 03:18 PM (#4064958) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Nigel Parsons There used to be one seen frequently in Cardiff 505 EXY |
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19 Jul 20 - 03:21 PM (#4064960) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Donuel AIR 404 |
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19 Jul 20 - 04:25 PM (#4064969) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Helen 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. |
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20 Jul 20 - 04:30 AM (#4065040) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Jos Thanks Nigel, for making my links work. |
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20 Jul 20 - 08:16 AM (#4065065) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy Mine for years was CD4 CI1. Senoufou's husband might get it... |
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22 Jul 20 - 02:18 PM (#4065468) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: JHW What is meant by window plates saying 'Baby on board'. Is the baby driving? |
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22 Jul 20 - 03:57 PM (#4065485) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Helen No JHW, the baby is riding a surfboard or maybe sitting on an ironing board. Ok Mrrzy, I give up! CD4 CI1 ? |
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22 Jul 20 - 04:18 PM (#4065489) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy 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. |
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22 Jul 20 - 06:31 PM (#4065506) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Helen Well Mrrzy, thanks for the brain aerobics but I would never ever have figured that one out. |
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22 Jul 20 - 06:53 PM (#4065509) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: robomatic The Goons: Moriarty- "Do you see those CD license plates?" Copper- "Cor Blimey!" Moriarty- "NO! Corps Diplomatique!" |
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22 Jul 20 - 11:05 PM (#4065530) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mrrzy Haha! |
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25 Jul 20 - 08:21 PM (#4065849) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Tattie Bogle 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. |
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26 Jul 20 - 02:00 AM (#4065871) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mr Red (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. |
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27 Jul 20 - 07:05 AM (#4066069) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Geoff the Duck 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! |
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27 Jul 20 - 07:29 AM (#4066075) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Helen Mr Red, I've seen some clever hairdressing salon names over the years, but the names escape me at the moment. |
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27 Jul 20 - 09:30 AM (#4066087) Subject: RE: BS: Vanity tags From: Mr Red 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 |