ADVISORY TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

You need to be more alert.

(Thanks to Bob Brogan)

Comments

[Marvin]

No kidding, Dave.

[wiredog]

Many years ago in Virginia, when I was but a lad, a neighbor had "carajo" as a license plate.

[JEC]

Be alert! This country needs more lerts!

[Jeff Meyerson]

I loved the "Hippo Eats Dwarf" article.

[Wvplantman]

Wiredog, I thought "carajo" was Spanish for "crows nest". as on Spanish Galleons? So the Virginia bureaucrats probably just thought you were a sailing buff...

[Brian]

I have a friend in Richmond who secretly bought his wife a new Pontiac Vibe a few years ago. They have been married for about 10 years and she was originally from Oakland, CA, and a big football fan. Well, he thought that he would be the perfect husband and he got her a VA vanity plate that said, "RAIDER". Little did he suspect that 6 months down the line, a 14 year old schoolmate of their daughter remarked to her, "Hey, your mom drives a vibrator all day!!!"

The marriage was a bit strained for a short time, but he claimed absolute ignorance, and needless to say, everyone believed him.

[Annie Where-but-here]

They probably think they're spelling "Virginia."

[bonmot]

Let's hear it for the cunning linguist!

[nursecindy]

I hate to get behind a car with a vanity plate and I can't figure out what it means. It's hard enough driving sometimes without having to take a 'What's my license plate mean?' test at every stoplight.

[Sco77]

Ah, yes. Vriginia IS for lovers!

[Allen at Division]

The link is blocked by my over-protective filter. Somebody spell it out for me, please?

[bonmot]

Allen -- someone submitted a vanity plate for the word AGINAS.

Then they bought the plate featuring what is presumably their alma mater, UVA, but it shows up on the plate as a big "V" before the rest of the letters.

Now who doesn't like the Big V?

[Allen at Division]

Thanks, bonmot.

"There was a young woman named Dinah..."

[Betsy]

I wonder if other states offer the school spirit option -- Alabama could have SSHOLES, and Iowa could have DIOTS ...

[oneblankspace]

Vanity license plates I saw in the Commonwealth:

I1I1I1I1
BIGSEXC

I did not personally see the EATTHE plate of the Kids First class.

Anybody do a google search for Virgina (missing the third I) recently?

[Brian]

I haven't spent too much time driving the mid-west or west coast areas, but over the course of a dozen or so east coast trips and time in DC and Virginia, I have to say that it seems like every other VA car has a vanity plate! I wonder what state issues the most?

Florida has about a bazillion specialty plates (actually about 104 to date) for schools, universities, sports teams, "save the whatevers", etc.

[Meanie the Blue]

The irony is too much, considering what Virginia was named for.

[Horace LaBadie]

This car is reported stolen at least once a week, just so that the BOLO can be sent out.

[queensbee]

maybe its from a cardiologist. ANgina. i dunno.

[MOTW]

I think this is the best vanity plate I've seen:
QIT H8N

Maybe that lovely Texas lady could drive up to Chicago where that young man was video-taped as he was beaten to death.
/sorry, not funny/

[Brian]

There's someone down here that must be either a Miami Dolphins fan (poor b*st*rd!), a Florida Marlins fan (an even dumber soul), or perhaps just a fisherman who's plate reads "GOGHOTI".

[bonmot]

Or maybe they like playing cards.

The dumbest word in the English language is "phonetic". It isn't.

[MartiniShark]

G8TRS SUK

[Brian]

SO DOES BUD

[insomniac]

the person who approved that plate needs to listen while their supervisor talks to them for a long time...maybe delivers some kind of monologue...

[Layzeeboy]

10S NE1

Used to be mine many years ago.

[Allen at Division]

A Star Wars fan I know has X-WINGR

[Leetie]

My favorite local tag.

[Leetie]

Hmmm... I can't decide whether I like the wheelchair TIMMAY or "EAT THE Kids First" best. :)

[Siouxie]

ShrkyBrkTheBlg

[Steve]

Leetie, I don't get it. TIMMAY?

[Cheesewiz]

Steve:

Timmay is the crippled kid in South Park and the only thing he can say is his name. It is his response to everything.

[Steve]

Thanks. I suppose that if I didn't think that South Park is the worst TV show in the history of the world, I may have gotten the joke.

[MartiniShark]

SU Z MCHTE

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i saw once licence plate saying "EXPIRED"

[Loudmouth]

Oh, Oh, Oh. I saw the car with that plate on the highway the other day driving creeping into DC. It did make me smile.

[insomniac]

today i saw (i was cut off in fact) by a car with the plate IML8IML8... i wish i could say it was driven by a large white rabbit...

[Richard the Weasel-Hearted]

Brian,

It may be because vanity plates are quite cheap in VA. Got one myself.