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Driving down the street the other day, I noticed the license plate on the car in front of me. You know the kind, a vanity plate that someone came up with. C U L8RNow, this was a pretty easy one to figure out, but how many times have you gotten behind someone, and just couldn't figure out what they were trying to say? Have you seen funny ones? Lewd plates, even though they aren't supposed to be? 68N1 was the lewdest I ever saw someone get away with. 
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Some years ago there was a French car around here with the plate, "BEZ-MOI." I'm sure the guy at the Department of Motor Vihicles read "BEZ" as only the imperitive form of "kiss," not its slang implication.
Many years ago I knew a man whith six children whose family name was Casebeer. I'm sure you can all figure out what his vanity plate said. (6-PACK, of course)
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last year in california, a non vanity plate was recalled..
Like most states, CA has a formula for plates, # XXX ###, (a number, 3 letter, 3 numbers) the three letter combo is checked, and fuk, fuc are not permitted, nor some other words that could read wrong.. but some words like red, or top, or big are OK.
so one plate ended up being 2 BIG 469 and the guy who had it, didn't want to give it up..
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A few weeks ago, we saw a vanity plate which read SLK DZN and couldn't figure out what it might mean. The closest we could come was "Silk dozen," but that doesn't make much sense...
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A few weeks ago, we saw a vanity plate which read SLK DZN and couldn't figure out what it might mean.
Some folks around here use their initials on vanity plates. Something like "Sarah Louise Kline" and Diego Zeledon Noriega" for the above example, with no cutesy words intended.
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some one i worked with named Seltzer, had two cars each with vanity plates; one was ALKA the other BROMO. neither made much sense unless you knew..
my handle "of troy" come from playing what would you have as a vanity plate on long car trips.. (most plates are limited to 7 or 8 letters or characters.)
a flaming guy, in pink, in a pink convertable had a plate,
IM RU2.
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Dear of troy: I hadn't heard of BromoSeltzer in years. I think that is the one that used to be popular with Boston drunks for hangover. I might be confused, but I think that is the one that used to have acetanilid in it. It was very effective, but caused methemoglobinuria, which gave the drunks a very noticeably blue face. Acetanilide with change in molecular structure is safe, and is now in Anacin.
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...a vanity plate which read SLK DZN and couldn't figure out what it might mean.
Select Dozen?
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This is a yart, I think, but there is only one self-defining license plate known. ML*ML* tells you not only what kind of a car it's on, it tells you what color it is.
The one I liked my ex had: OH FEX. Colorado did not realize that fex was the plural of feces. Marti's plate said OH SHIT on it!
And Peggy has asked me to appy for URIAH for her new Grand Cherokee.
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fex ... the plural of feces
Backwards, maybe? "Fex, feces" like "index, indices" or "appendix, appendices"?
(Why do these terms seem to come from publishing? A sly commment on the state of literature these days?}
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