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24 April 2007

Our new license plate for our new car:

WTF-xxxx. →[More:]

I kid you not.

Maybe it's time to splurge for a custom plate? But heaven knows if I'd CHOSEN that they'd denied it.

post by: bunnyfire at: 21:28 | 17 comments

Funny. Is it really xxxx or numbers? Not stalking, but xxxx would be worse!

The husbands (non-custom)plate starts with my maiden name initals.

posted by rainbaby 24 April | 21:58

Nah, real numbers.

There is something twistedly funny about the fact we will be driving that car -with THAT license plate -to church.

(We all laughed hysterically when we realized just what the DMV had wrought. Thank God my husband has a sense of humor as warped as mine.)

posted by bunnyfire 24 April | 22:36

NC hasn't figured out what it means yet, hmm?

posted by brujita 24 April | 22:44

I want WTF-BBQ

posted by Doohickie 24 April | 22:46

80085 LOL

posted by eamondaly 24 April | 22:56

I considering getting that vanity plate "OMG WTF" when I got my car last fall, but I wimped out.

My mom was issued "WAR ###" and took back to the DMV. The DMV people told her a lot of people were returning the "war plates", as they called them, that month.

posted by mullacc 24 April | 23:12

My friend's plate is actually some number like 23. Really, just 23. I tease him all the time about who he had to pay to get a low numbered plate. Apparently people will do corrupt things to get low numbered plates in Chicago.

posted by youngergirl44 25 April | 00:23

I've seen a car with a plate EAT ####. Wonder if anybody gets the munchies?

Knew somebody from Georgia who said he was issued FAG ###, so he referred to his car as "the Fagmobile."

posted by PaxDigita 25 April | 04:45

Oh, and this is as good a thread as any to mention this: I once saw TAN 90 on a car. Care to guess what make?

posted by PaxDigita 25 April | 06:33

Yeah.... subtle, Pax....

posted by Doohickie 25 April | 10:16

WWJD? : )

posted by Pips 25 April | 10:27

Someone who lives round here has a Jag with the number

J46UAR

But I think the best numberplate I ever saw was in the late 80s, a time of horrible conspicuous consumption by the 'haves', at least in London, where the 'loadsamoney' culture prevailed. It was a Porsche 911 (red, of course) and it bore the number

911 EGO

At least it showed a touch of irony.

posted by essexjan 25 April | 11:03

Seriously, will the DMV swap with us if it came to that?

Part of me wants to switch and part of me wants to be a grownup and deal-but I have GOT to come up with a new phrase for those particular initials.

posted by bunnyfire 25 April | 11:55

Work The Faith

posted by danostuporstar 25 April | 11:58

We Taste Funyuns

posted by box 25 April | 12:06

Well, since we're sharing. My family named cars after the license plate. This resulted in a little brown car caled BOG because those were it's first three letters. My current car is RDX so I call it Redux. (though, to be fair, you can keep the plate in Florida, so the first Redux was, um, more special?).

My favorite is one spotted by a friend - "WAS HIS"

posted by bilabial 25 April | 14:05

The family* Mustang was PEN 378 (I think that's right) and was known as Penny.

*It was a 1964 1/2 and my mum's younger sister bought it brand spankin' new and drove it off the showroom floor. She drove it for a few years and gave it to her mum (my grandmother). My grandmother eventually gave it to my mum and it was supposed to go to me at some point. It started having many problems that Mum couldn't afford to fix, so she sold it to a young guy who was going to fix it up and she bought a Cavalier.

posted by deborah 25 April | 19:27

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