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A List, for Someone
An Ohio website is helpfully providing advice on just what is and is not acceptable in the "personal license plate" realm. Ohio resident Ron, who gets endearingly literal when he gets an answer he doesn't like, should find the list of 1574 examples of bad resident! No biscuit! examples quite useful.
Virginia's custom plate law makes it pretty darned cheap to get one, so they're all over the place. They fussed at us when Ellen claimed "8bit me", but eventually, without explanation, gave in.
I started reading that list and found out that we've gone all lame here. Any license plate that involves Michigan sucking in some way should get an automatic greenlight. In fact, considering our budget shortfalls, I'm thinking they should highlight those and auction them off to the highest bidder. We've got plenty of fans that still have plenty of money to pay for MISUXDK or some other family-friendly plate.
They aren't that expensive here, either. I think it's around $80/year if you want a custom plate with special lettering. Note that this is the entire registration cost as we don't have personal property tax.
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 17, 2009 11:58 AMI used to go to school in Virginia, and one of the teachers had a custom plate that said "God And Us". The plate was GODANUS.
There was another guy whose plate was GODZALI. I have no idea how the DMV let that one through.
Posted by: DensityDuck on February 17, 2009 12:28 PMI must admit, I do love it when a vanity plate goes wrong or it's so lame it deserves mockery from everyone.
Like the guy I saw driving a (then) current Mustang in 1991 or so. The vanity plate said LESTAT. I'm not sure one could make themselves look any more lame than that.
Or CUTIEPI driven by someone who's neither cute, remotely attractive, or under 475lbs.
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 17, 2009 12:52 PMPersonally, I liked the 92 Geo Metro with "nighthawk" scrawled on the side. No, not a plate, but definitely worth remembering.
Posted by: scott on February 17, 2009 01:05 PMScott - that one's great. Too bad you couldn't get a pic or anything.
Speaking of automotive nonsense, Amber and I were driving somewhere around Cbus and saw a conversion van with a household window-mounted AC unit fiberglassed into one of the rear windows. Very classy, that one.
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 17, 2009 01:57 PM