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Greetings All
Looking to license an old car I've been doing up, so have "got into" car number PL8's lately.
THE definitive site on this subject is at: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/misc/origplates.html - some people are VERY clever with only 8 or 9 alphanumeric characters!!
One that's not there (yet - I have advised the webmaster) is one I saw the other night here in Perth, Western Australia. An Asian guy was driving the car, so his application had probably not been given a second look. The plate is - TIHZ HO . Looks innocuous enough -until you read it in your rear view mirror!! Excellent!!!
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Playboy Magazine had a snippet in a 70s issue about a vanity plate in Texas that read "PAN-8". By Texas law it should have been banned.
Anyone know why?
Here's a hint: if you don't answer euphemistically, you'll be considered rude.
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Apparently, panocho (PAN-8) or panoochie is Tex-Mex slang for, how shall I say it, the female reproductive organs.
Well, that's how I remember it...
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Tsk, tsk, tsk. If this thread keeps descending at current rate I shall have to make a note to check it more often! wow
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How funny - I saw that same Playboy snippet (I had just begun studying Spanish, and just begun studying Playboy) and occasionally think of it when I see vanity plates, but never expected to hear of it again.
I saw one on a car up at Lake Tahoe a few days ago, that said SNO XQS. Thought it was pretty clever.
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SNO XQS. Thought it was pretty clever
Yes, it is--works either way: if it is, or if it isn't!
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