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Unless she's prepared to have people yell "How much?" I think the DMV is doing her a favor. I've seen some businesses use their name as a web address. When the spaces are removed, new words appear that weren't expected. I did see a lic. plate once "4NICK8R"
 
In Colorado, when you apply for custom plates, they spell out in the application that they can refuse any plate that they deem might be offensive. They even state that if the plate gets through the selection process and then is later deemed offensive or decided to have an extra meaning, even an unintended meaning, they can still pull the plate from service. The license plates are state property, not personal property.

This plate could be easily pulled as well, even though it is simply the owners initials after the number.
 

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A friend of mine was graduating med school many years ago. Since he was a urologist I suggested this vanity plate for his car:
2PCME
He didn't have the guts to go through with it.
 
GregW said:
Unless she's prepared to have people yell "How much?" I think the DMV is doing her a favor. I've sen some business use their name as a web address. When the spaces are removed, new words appear that weren't expected. I did see a lic. plate once "4NICK8R"
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I've actually had someone wait for me in a grocery store parking lot and wanted to fight me because they did not like my Vanity Plate which was a reference to a personality I happen to enjoy. And no, I'm not posting it here.
 
"She explained she got the idea after hearing about a woman who was denied from customizing a similar plate in California."

She admits that she purposefully pursued a plate that was rejected because of an indecent phrase, and then acts surprised when she is also rejected? And then she pretends she doesn't understand why it was rejected? Every state has one, I suppose...

Basil said:
I've actually had someone wait for me in a grocery store parking lot and wanted to fight me because they did not like my Vanity Plate which was a reference to a personality I happen to enjoy.
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I dunno, if you put a reference to a politically-related personality on your license plate then you're asking for trouble, imho.
 
Steve_S said:
I dunno, if you put a reference to a politically-related personality on your license plate then you're asking for trouble, imho.
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'goes for stickers too.

I'll stop there :angel:
 
Steve_S said:
Basil said:
I've actually had someone wait for me in a grocery store parking lot and wanted to fight me because they did not like my Vanity Plate which was a reference to a personality I happen to enjoy.
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I dunno, if you put a reference to a politically-related personality on your license plate then you're asking for trouble, imho.
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My vanity plate does not reference a politician, but even if it did, the problem isn't with me choosing to express a particular sentiment via my license plate. The problem (in my humble opinion) is rather with the "tolerant" person who felt so offended that they were compelled to confront me. My plate was never in a million years meant to be offensive; it was simply an expression supporting someone that I happen to like. I can assure you that I see many, many more bumper stickers, for example, that I find very offensive than anything I've ever put on my car. Nonetheless, I'd defend to the death those peoples' right to plaster their opinions and expressions all over their cars if that's what floats their boat. There is nothing offensive about my plate in my opinion, nor does it put anyone down or call anyone names, so I don't feel that I'm asking for trouble – but I would hope to expect the same respect that I show towards others who sometimes plaster some of the most banal, inane, vacuous sentiments imaginable all over the backs of their beater cars.

:grouphug:
 
One I remember was in an old R&T, on the back of a white Rabbit drop-top: "ML8-ML8". :laugh:
 
My personalized plate reads "14 DNA"

What a surprise!

It means, 'One for Dave and Annie"
In Ontario, when I got this plate, I had to prove there was nothing in the scientific world about the 14th chromosome that was offensive.
Then we all had a good laugh, and I got the plate. As was stated, Ontario can pull back a plate if later found in bad taste.

What I kind of enjoy, is how much trouble people will go to just to get a plate.

Dave :cheers:
 
I remember this story from R&T:

A man wanted vanity tags for his car. The MVA asked for three choices in case his first choice was taken. He wrote:

1. SAILING
2. BOATING
3. NO TAG

In other words, if he couldn't get SAILING or BOATING, he didn't want a vanity tag. You guessed it. When his tags came, they read NO TAG.

At first he was going to return them, but then he thought they would be kinda funny. So he used them.

Then he started to get hundreds of parking tickets. Every time a ticket was written on a car with no tag, he got it!

That wasn't so funny.
 
Basil said:
My vanity plate does not reference a politician, but even if it did, the problem isn't with me choosing to express a particular sentiment via my license plate. The problem (in my humble opinion) is rather with the "tolerant" person who felt so offended that they were compelled to confront me. My plate was never in a million years meant to be offensive; it was simply an expression supporting someone that I happen to like.
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I agree that the problem isn't the plate or your admiration of whoever the person is. But you know there are people in the world who feel as strongly or moreso than you about any subject, and that their beliefs may conflict with yours. And you also know that people will react emotionally and even violently to things that you may not feel quite as passionate about. So by displaying something on your car as you drive around town that you know is controversial, you really are asking for confrontation!

You do have the right to display controversial matter publicly, but no more so than others have the right to reject your belief that it's right to do so.

I don't intend this to be negative in any way, just pointing out the way I see the situation in hopes you will better understand what happened.
 
My old plate was AMRE2U...

Many people asked what it meant, and I just said if they cannot understand it, then it is working.

My sister has a plate NACLH2O. I got it for her when she summered each year at the Jersey shore.

I also had one PIXRMN when I was a school portrait photographer.
 
Steve_S said:
I don't intend this to be negative in any way, just pointing out the way I see the situation in hopes you will better understand what happened.
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I understand your point and know you meant nothing negative. But trust me, I understood precisely what happened - the guy was a being an emotional, irrational, illogical jerk (who in all likelihood based his opinion on what others told him to think rather than his own objective, factual assessment). I’m 54 years young and, sorry but I'll be darned if I’m going to adjust what I do in my life to appease such people.

I told him that if he didn't like the person in question, he didn't have to listen to the person - it's a free country I told him. But I also told him that, while I respected his right to not like the person, I reserve the right also to my own freedom of expression, thank you very much. At which point I got in my car and left as this tolerant person yelled profanities at me. Compared to some of the blatantly political stuff I see on some peoples' cars (some of which is clearly intended to express their personal anger at some situation and/or to inflame people with different views), my little one-word vanity statement is very benign. It’s only controversial if someone wants to be a mental midget like that guy and make it controversial. For what it’s worth I get far more honks and thumbs up over my vanity plate than I get jerks like that guy (in fact that was the only time that someone actually confronted me in person, aside from the occasional middle finger salute and “So and So $ucks” being yelled at me from a passing car.
 
Interestingly, in Louisiana many organizations have their own license plates: Lions Club, Black Bear, Fire Fighters, Army Retired, Navy Retired, etc. When the Right To Life organization applied for their own plates, they got it. Some time later, the Pro Choice people applied for the same privilege and were turned down because it was against the morals of the people that made the decisions to issue vanity plates. The Pro Choice people sued and the state shut down the issuing of ANY new vanity plates for 3 years until the suit was settled in court. I think the Pro Choice people won, not sure.
 
In my town there is a fellow with a Porsche conv. His plate reads "U4EEAH"
Also, a BCF member, when he lived in Canada, had the plate "NAMGAR"
He was surprised when I said it spelled ragman if read backwards.
I believe it was a red MGA, was it not, Bob?

Dave :driving:

You know, this could go on forever!
 
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