 Personally…. Posted by Joan Kayse Jun 13 2012, 12:15 am Do you ever feel as if people don’t “get” you? Do you have ideas, opinions, outlooks that the world is begging to know? Sure, now you have Facebook and Twitter to get the word out on what a cool and unique person you are! But “back in the old days” there was a different venue for the lowdown on how cool you were. How witty, dedicated, screwed up a person could be. Statements were made with only six letters and/or numbers. The Personalized License Plate! I thought up this blog because for the past six weeks everywhere I drive I’ve been seeing vanity plates. Some are pretty easy to figure out. Some make you think. Some make you laugh and some can be downright offensive! But every one of them says SOMETHING about the driver of the car. Here are a handful I saw myself. PURFIK This says it all, doesn’t it? This person is full of confidence and puts the van in vanity, LOL. Also, don’t follow too close to her as she might not be paying attention as she admires her reflection in the rearview mirror! BADNUF This particular plate had a sardonic tone to it as the car it was on was like a Volkswagon Bug. This guy probably won’t have road rage….road snark, maybe but unlikely to pull a gun out. NAILZ Pretty certain this one was a reflection of her occupation. The SUV she was driving was a blah sort of tan…no OPI pink for this gal. SUVIN Not a clue. Was NOT a SUV. Ideas? ZOMBI3 This one was sort of trendy though it begs the question…where are Zombi1 and 2???? (Looks anxiously in back seat) GRANNA I like this one for the pure Celtic feel of it. I Googled some others and these are ones I liked. LQQK V8 LOL LED FT I BITE I don’t know what I’d have on a vanity plate of my own….IRISH1? WRTR? CATMOM? Or what about my newest hero, Brady Sullivan? MGK MAN? DNGRUS? ELF LOL? What about you? Do you have vanity plates? What are some you’ve seen? What would you put on one if you did get them? If you’re a writer, what would a character of yours say? (Use only6 letters/numbers)
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LOL!!! I don’t have vanity plates, but maybe mine would say something like BK LVR?
Hey, Fedora, perhaps you should go for RSTR LVR? There’s definitely something going on between you two!
Just to be clear, that’s BOOK lover, not BOK lover
And hey, RSTR LVR has too many letters, Anna
SO SHT ME!
Actually that looks kinda nasty. I don’t want that as my numberplate!
Hmm, BOK LVR has quite a ring to it, you know. And the rooster likes it!
His would be GLD CHK!
ROTFLOL, Anna! Rooster lover, indeed!
JT, what a fun post! Love the photos. I don’t actually drive so a vanity number plate would do me no good at all. Perhaps mine would be WLK HME?
We walk quite a bit too, but I don’t think it’d be too easy to get by without a car where we are… not sure how we’d get our bulk purchases home
Fedora, it wasn’t a problem when I lived in Central Sydney. Public transport where I live now is more of a problem – a resort town on the Queensland coast. Luckily, one of the big grocery chains has just started internet shopping. Makes life MUCH easier.
No car?? Don’t drive?? Good grief, Anna, you are truly a woman of another generation!
Jo, I HAVE to write historicals. I’m not groovy enough for anything after 1920!
By the way, garages make great book storage spaces!
I have always had trouble with my first name being spelled the way my mother wanted. Mine would be
DIA2NA
my daughter said why not just spell it out Dianna? No, they have to work for it.
That’s clever, Dianna! My first name was so uncommon in the state where I grew up that when I went to college thousands of miles away, I started using my middle name and it stuck! Athough people still spell my name “Joe.” WTH? That’s just weird.
What a fun post, Joanie. I have a similar one I’ll post sometime about English vanity plates, as we have different rules from all of you for our plates.
We don’t have a vanity plate, but if we did it would probably be something to do with the teams we support like DEVILS or REDDVLS(which works for both our fave hockey team and footie team!).
For me personally, PUKCHK? Or CULSHUZ?
The funniest I’ve ever seen was one that did the rounds a few years ago – a lovely Porsche with the licence plate ‘WAS HIS’. Hell hath no fury …!
Does PUKCHK have stomach troubles, Anna, or am I missing something?
What about you? Do you have vanity plates? What are some you’ve seen? What would you put on one if you did get them? If you’re a writer, what would a character of yours say? (Use only6 letters/numbers)
What a great post… I’ve been meaning to do one like this, but I guess I’m just lazy.
I’ve been seeing them every where too. However, it’s not legal to photograph them here in Australia (so I’ve been told, but nobody stops me…
).
LURCH – this one is on a black Ford sedan which is owned by an employee of the Centro over the back fence of where my parents live. I find this car very cool and often see it parked there and photograph it when I have the chance.
NOT 007 – Now this guy’s got a sense of humour. I saw this white Ford at the post office recently and just had to take a photo! The owner caught me too!
Funnily enough, he didn’t mind as the Queensland Transport Department asked him if they could use his number plate in the Personalised Plates Advert last year and he gets paid money each time it’s shown. Pretty cool, eh?
MOQ 69 (MOO 69) – I thought this one was funny… it looks cute too.
COOL HA – I found this car in the service station next door to me early one morning while the owner filled it up. I love the number plate and it was an old Chevrolet from around 1969… very cool indeed!
Then, we have number plate types… this is where you can put sayings on your plates; like ‘Queensland: The Smart State’ (which was removed from circulation some time ago; but you get my meaning). You can personalise yours as much – or as little you like here). I’ve seen some pretty cool ones.
Well… I think so. 
For example: we were driving along on the north side of Brisbane when we started following a purple Holden sedan – and I mean like the colour of the Phantom, Mr Walker, colour! – and Dad got the car close enough for us to photograph the plate. It read an ordinary number; with ‘THE GHOST WHO WALKS’ below it! Now, this was the type of car The Phantom would drive if he traded in his sweet white horse – but not Wolf – and picked out a modern ride in this day and age.
Very interesting, Mozette. I didn’t know it was illegal to take photos of license plates anywhere, but it makes sense. And how clever that the guy gets paid to display his vanity plates!
Mozette, these sound great! I especially love the NOT 007 one.
The Phantom strip ran in our local paper when I was in grade school, with color on Saturdays (it went away when that paper bit the dust). I loved The Phantom and the Skull Cave and the intrepid love interest (Diana?) and the dog and the horse.
Joan, what a fun post! I think we get 8 characters in NC. I used to see the plate CAPTKIRK, on my way to work sometimes, on the back of an orange Jetta. There was also SWIMFLY. Last week, the dh and I saw an electric blue Corvette with a plate that read VRROOOM! There’s a person who likes living dangerously.
If I were picking a plate, I’d maybe go with BOOKISH in NC or BK-ISH over by you. Or maybe MAGES.
Not sure what mine would be? But I would like something like Princess 1…LOL
Kathleen, you should get what you like. One of the best things about finaling in the GH is being treated like a princess at the conference.
Hilarious post, Jaonie! Only you would think of a topic like this.
Generally vanity plates annoy me, not because they’re not clever, but because I’m always distracted trying to figure out what they MEAN, if anything.
I was going to get personalized plates when I started writing, but those babies are expensive here in CA, where we are allowed 7 letters or numbers.
So many cars, so much air pollution!
Jo, the DMV powers that be decided a few years back that all license plates must have red lettering, so they took my blue-lettered plate, which I loved because it was easy to remember and started with FTL, which my friends joked meant “Faster Than Light” because of my love for Star Trek. So I got a new plate with red lettering and a number that’s impossible to remember. I thought of buying my old number, but I never got around to it.
Now they have discovered that the red actually fades worse than the blue and are changing us all back to blue. Grrr!
I know a friend of mine has a strange one that really means court reporter but she uses the way it would be typed and you would never figure it out (I can’t remember even lol). I would have to go with CATLDY (6 is hard lol). But I liked BK LVR too.
Catslady, I like these!
Fun post, Joan!
I’m not sure what I’d get if f I were to get a vanity plate. I’m guessing my younger daughter’s would be in honor of her favorite hockey player. Something like: IHRT71
Beth, who is #71?
I don’t have vanity plates because they cost more – and necessarily a lot – but more. Let’s face it I’m…frugal. Yeah – we’ll go with that. Hey – that could be my plate – CHEAP. But then someone is bound to read it and consider it in a different context
I have a friend who has had bk lvr for years. Smart woman. My boss had vanity plates with his last name – BLANK . It was kind of funny to those that thought he had a lack of imagination, but a good sense of humor.
Fun post, Joanie!
LOL, Donna–ya gotta watch that context thing!
I love your ex-boss’s plate.
I also loved The Casanova Code. Great job, bandita!
No vanity plates!
Haven’t seen any that caught my attention!
SUVIN = Suzanne and Vincent’s v. plates!
Pat C.
Pat, that’s a very clever plate!
Just read that you don’t drive, I don’t drive
either! Honey does all the driving, since we
always go everywhere together! Vanity
plates for him : 1DRVR
Above note was meant to be addressed to
Anna C. !
Pat C.
Pat, don’t we share a birthday too? I wonder if there’s something astrological going on!
Astrologically, we just may be sisters with
different parents! ( I love the phrase about
“brothers with different mothers.” ) LOL.
Pat C.
And clearly sisters who had a chauffeur in a previous life, LOL!
Pat, I know how to drive and pretty much drive wherever I like, but the dh is a terrible passenger–restless and antsy–so when we go somewhere together, he always drives. It’s way easier for me that way!
Hi all!
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This is too funny ! LOVE these vanity plates!
If I could afford one it might say R3G3NC
or
CRAZWTR
The hero of my latest WIP might want to use the plate on his phaeton to say SNAKE!
Love the Regency plate, Louisa! How clever!