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OK, here's my first try at starting a new thread. I noticed an older thread about license plates. Some years ago I ran across the license plate ML8ML8. I couldn't believe my eyes, because after following the car for about 5 miles I realized you could tell not only the make but the color of the car from the license plate!
Another one I saw in VA was an Isuzu pickup truck with the plate GSNDHT.
And for several years here in Colorado (until the ex took the car to another state) I had a car with OH FEX (though I admit I stole this one from a friend in VA).
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Ted,
could you send me the explanations for the first and third ones, please? I got the middle one, but for the others IM2L8.
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>>could you send me the explanations for the first and third ones, please? I got the middle one, but for the others IM2L8<<
Me too! (is this a boy thing?)
One of my favourites was in 1999 - a Volkswagen Beetle with the plate Y2K.
And one of my least favourite, from the carpark at work - a black VW Golf covertible with the plate PHW 00 R.
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OH FEX sounds like a reverse allergy medication (which follows from GSNDHT I suppose).
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Bridget, bear in mind that what we call a VW Beetle, Americans call a Rabbit.
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>Bridget, bear in mind that what we call a VW Beetle, Americans call a Rabbit.<
Bingley:
Actually a Rabbit (which is not made any more so far as I know) was an entirely different model from either the new or the old Beetle. you're on the right track though.
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PS: You might ask Alice
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>OH FEX sounds like a reverse allergy medication (which follows from GSNDHT I suppose). <
Not even close. But the answer IS in OED.
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Whee. When I started this thread I was a stranger, now I'm a newbie!
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Congratulations, TedNewbie! MANY thanks for the inside info. As I said, obviously I don't know fex!  !
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>in the OED
many crude and wonderful things are in the OED (and some are also in my wwftd list), such as feck; why would you put a phonetic spelling of the plural of an Irish/Scot slang word on a Colorado license plate -- unless you were trying to pull a fast one on the DMV.... never mind.
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