In Illinois I think a custom plate that has letters and numbers costs a one time fee of around $10 USD. If you have only letters it's over $100, but either way it's a one time fee. I can understand why people do it for $10.
Yeah, Florida is license plate country. Way too many different plates. You have to choose whether you want "Sunshine State" or the the name of your county on the standard plate.
Moving on, the best plate ever is: X35 1ARO
(think rear view mirror)
In european countries with the blocky letters it's even better, since the backwards 5 and 3 look more like S and E.
I see three possible rationales for the oddity you raise.
The first two are variations on postmodern expression of contemptuous social protest. One can only speculate as to whether this represents the former option or the latter. The first possibility is of course outrage at the ascendency of Corporatism as distilled in the Car Dealership Outline Thingie triumphantly obscuring a social conscience as represented by the Indiana Kids license plate with its crayon-esque use of child imagery.
Alternatively there is the more specific case of those plates with a nice generic looking outdoor scene with a bird and like a sunset or something, one cannot help but feel moved to the core by this pogniant and damning confirmation that our society's automobile dependency has eclipsed our communion with nature. Of course one cannot help but give a wry knowing smile at the admitted hypocrisy of this protest being carried out aboard an automobile, a sense of outrage mixed with knowing guilt in the finest Catholic tradition. Naturally the canvas is completed by an accompanying bumper sticker praising America and preaching patriotism which hints at the foreign policy complications of our petroleum dependency and the related costs of this addiction.
The third possibility is that people like to feel like they are doing something good and throw in an Andrew Jackson at the DMV for Cause X but are too lazy to bother taking that frame thing off.
Or maybe he just thinks the dealership frame holds the plate on the car.
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Originally posted by bunge
In Illinois I think a custom plate that has letters and numbers costs a one time fee of around $10 USD. If you have only letters it's over $100, but either way it's a one time fee. I can understand why people do it for $10.
hm... MAC OS 11 ?
Mechanical Engineering.
A North Campus dork then.
Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath
A North Campus dork then.
SNAAB
Made me laugh.
GTSC
Originally posted by Placebo
I think I saw a H426B, but I'm not sure...
ummh? I definitely would not want a H1B as my car plate...
but which #@$% module is the H426B??
Originally posted by Giaguara
ummh? I definitely would not want a H1B as my car plate...
but which #@$% module is the H426B??
Excuse me, H264b.
MP3
MPEG
DOS
H@CK3R
C0DeR
OSX 4 LIFE
I4GOT
SPEED
DVD
MS-SUX
and if I get a BMW:
B-MER
Moving on, the best plate ever is: X35 1ARO
(think rear view mirror)
In european countries with the blocky letters it's even better, since the backwards 5 and 3 look more like S and E.
Originally posted by Placebo
Excuse me, H264b.
H.264/AVC ?? where to you see a H264b?
Originally posted by Giaguara
H.264/AVC ?? where to you see a H264b?
It's probably interlaced or something, and a and b just specify different field orders or something.
Originally posted by a_greer
but the one i would love is
GEEK
Been done.
Perhaps better (both car and plate) would be...
Originally posted by MarcUK
no! thats nice.
it was one of the dark green standard ones.
This one looks good.
For myself.. may be Duffed
Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath
I see three possible rationales for the oddity you raise.
The first two are variations on postmodern expression of contemptuous social protest. One can only speculate as to whether this represents the former option or the latter. The first possibility is of course outrage at the ascendency of Corporatism as distilled in the Car Dealership Outline Thingie triumphantly obscuring a social conscience as represented by the Indiana Kids license plate with its crayon-esque use of child imagery.
Alternatively there is the more specific case of those plates with a nice generic looking outdoor scene with a bird and like a sunset or something, one cannot help but feel moved to the core by this pogniant and damning confirmation that our society's automobile dependency has eclipsed our communion with nature. Of course one cannot help but give a wry knowing smile at the admitted hypocrisy of this protest being carried out aboard an automobile, a sense of outrage mixed with knowing guilt in the finest Catholic tradition. Naturally the canvas is completed by an accompanying bumper sticker praising America and preaching patriotism which hints at the foreign policy complications of our petroleum dependency and the related costs of this addiction.
The third possibility is that people like to feel like they are doing something good and throw in an Andrew Jackson at the DMV for Cause X but are too lazy to bother taking that frame thing off.
Or maybe he just thinks the dealership frame holds the plate on the car.
Originally posted by PBG3
May dad's says "2 3Pair" Try to figure it out.
He has a V12 Engine, possibly in a Ford F250/350 Pickup, Viper or Dodge ram.
Originally posted by iBook
Or maybe he just thinks the dealership frame holds the plate on the car.
Bingo.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
me likes..