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Clever Vanity Plate, or Pure Coincidence?
08-10-2011, 02:36 PM
I saw this plate on a car last night; it was gone before I could take a pic with my cellphone to prove it's real, sadly. It took me the few moments it was still in sight for me to realize that either it was a crazy coincidence of the numbering scheme, or a clever vanity plate: WYS-45S, which it took me about 30 seconds to reconstruct into "Wys Ass"/"Wise Ass".
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I glory in 127001, I've seen 'zombie' running around..
I saw 'Kissee' at the airport yesterday. The driver, appropriately enough, was kissing her husband.. who's name is michael kissee. hrmph.
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I'd bet on coincidence. At least where I'm from, they don't let you get vanity plates that are too similar to the patterns for the normal ones. I bet they have a bunch of iterators stamping the plates out, and they don't want to risk getting a duplicate plate.
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Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001 You live in your car?
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Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001
I don't get it.
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ClassicDrogn Wrote:Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001
I don't get it.
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I don't have a custom plate, but I do have a custom frame around said plate.
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Quote:You live in your car?
I actually do keep a cot and a sleeping bag in my work van. Per Diem >>>> Hotel Room.
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oh that's brilliant!
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Jorlem Wrote:I'd bet on coincidence. At least where I'm from, they don't let you get vanity plates that are too similar to the patterns for the normal ones. I bet they have a bunch of iterators stamping the plates out, and they don't want to risk getting a duplicate plate.
That brings up the question of what the pattern *is* in the state it came from though, since I've at least been lead to believe that it varies. (It certainly couldn't be produced by the pattern here, which has no letters in the first half, no numbers in the second, and no dash between the two.)
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Quote:That brings up the question of what the pattern *is* in the state it came from though, since I've at least been lead to believe that it varies.
It was a New Jersey plate, and fits the standard pattern for numbers issued in the last decade or so.
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if its 3 letters 3 numbers he got away with it because the second grouping is actually 2 numbers 1 letter.
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I'll admit, I once considered getting "4144-PLR" as a vanity plate, but then I discovered other games.
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