funny license plate (NAC)
Rocky Mullin
caliban at sharon.net
Thu Apr 15 00:06:22 EDT 2004
At 7:30 PM -0700 4/14/04, Andrew Buc wrote:
>Some I've seen or heard of over the years:
>
>EXOCET (on Fiat X1/9)
>FIATSCO (Fiat 124 sedan)
>VUU (air-cooled VW bug)
>Y55MPH (Seattle, early '80s)
>A woman in Seattle had MENOPOZ, and someone complained about it. I don't know
>if she got to keep the plate or not. Some people have no sense of humor!
ZYKLON B got pulled at one point, too, due to protest.
my pal, mr. hoche, has a GREAT one. his name is pronounced
"oh-shh", one syllable. no one at DMV would know the pronunciation,
seeing as his bike proudly wears HOCHE IT.
>A call girl in the Los Angeles area had a PAN8 license plate--for several
>months. Then someone tipped off the DMV that in Spanish "ocho" = 8, and in
>_cholo_ slang, well, I'll just say that "panocho" has a sexual connotation. It
>was clever while it lasted.
that was written up in /playboy/ in 1975, actually. it wasn't a CA
plate.
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