Need License Plate ideas
7So I figured out today that the license plates on my new truck (F150) never really transferred (long story) so I need to get new plates. I could be boring and get the randomly generated ones, but I like to have a little fun. I’m a married 40something y.o. IT guy with 3 daughters. We live in Ohio and I have an abnormally large … (not that) Lego collection and love to DIY (just finished the basement). I’ve lived in 2 countries (US and AUS) and 10 states and visited probably another 20 countries and 30 states. Let me know what you all would recommend. Here are some ideas I’ve thought up. Only rule is it has to be available on the oplates.com website (yes it’s a real site). And yes, plain old Meh is gone In Ohio too.
ID TEN T (very inside joke for IT people, see if you get it)
U IDTEN T (A variation on the previous one)
WOOT MEH (I’ve been here a long time, only recently retired my USB woot off lights)
IRK MEH (Getting with the new)
MEH GOAT (I don’t think I qualify yet)
LEGOOH (could be Lego Ohio or just LegoOOO!)
C DA WRLD (kinda like hello world)
DIY TOO (kinda simple)
IMA DORK (not sure they would approve it, and while I am not ashamed that I am a little odd not sure I want it on my license plate)
FRST TRK (yes, it’s my first pickup ever, even though I lived in TX for 6 years)
1ST FORD (yes my first Ford too)
WOOT OFF (Again showing my age, but this might also be sacrilegious)
BRKFST OCTPS (How fun would that be, but alas this one is too long)
Give me your ideas or tell me if you prefer one of mine. If I decide to use your idea, I’ll send you your very own IRK made up of whatever random crap I have lying around (and yes, I have a lot of that if you ask my wife).
Thanks!
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/giphy assman
@tinamarie1974 what a classic! I don’t think it would be approved though
@tinamarie1974 wow, even namssa (for rear view mirror) is prohibited
@kykazaa well that sucks. Taking away all our fun!
@kykazaa @tinamarie1974 I did once see this Oregon plate:
A55 H4T
@kykazaa @macromeh oh I like that!!!
@kykazaa @tinamarie1974 Now that I think about it, it was actually:
455 HAT
Even more subtle/interesting - I couldn’t tell if it was a vanity plate that someone had requested or just a serendipitously assigned random plate.
@kykazaa @macromeh @tinamarie1974
/image A55 RGY
@kykazaa @narfcake @tinamarie1974 The peach in the center makes it even better!
@kykazaa @macromeh @narfcake @tinamarie1974
@kykazaa @macromeh @narfcake @tinamarie1974 I just had to turn in a license plate that ended in RGY. I was sad to see it go.
That MEH GOAT one could be arranged…
FARD is available.
@Limewater Looks like they’re out of BORT license plates…
@Limewater ICU81MI also issued.
@Limewater PPHOLE is available and valid.
To evoke the breakfast of champions, how about:
AM OCTOPI?
It’s available in purple too! (edit: Oops, you said you lived in Texas but I didn’t realise that didn’t mean you were still living in Texas lmao - argh, Ohio only allows 7 characters, not eight, womp womp)
@curtise How about OCTO YUM or OCTOYUM?
Humph, Ohio doesn’t have purple
For that you just might get goated LOL
@2many2no took me a minute to figure this one out…had Woot Off stuck in my head. I drive an f150 with blacked out windows…I have no challenges with people getting too close to me
@kykazaa I sorta can’t believe it says this is available.
If you do get Meh on your plate somehow, please consider this the beginning of a Mehtizen petition to grant you automatic IRKs as long as you keep that plate. Consider that your punishment for having a Meh license plate…
@shahnm mehtizn is available…also mehricn. I realize these weren’t your suggestions, but still work
@kykazaa - Mehniac
Great News!!! This is still somehow available:
Pronounced “F one fitty”
I guess you get more letters if you don’t get the superman emblem
And since this is your physical transport:
And that url really looks like “opiates.com”
You of course know this cousin of ID TEN T:
But did you know the driving specific equivalent?
(We will also accept PEBWAS)
@djslack which is another serious issue in Ohio
@djslack I didn’t know the driving equivalent. Classic!
80085 is inappropriate, but this is available:
Surely there is a person that approves what gets past the automated filter.
Do you fix things, do you fix things in a racy manner, or do you not care?
@djslack I love this one!!! It covers the DIY…it covers my profession (IT)…and I must confess that F bomb is one of the most oft used words while I was working on the basement (luckily I am mostly alone). But I forgot to mention that I teach the 9th grade guys at church. Pretty sure this one would raise an eyebrow or two there.
@djslack BMV said no
@kykazaa I love that you tried. And that we got an answer that a person also has to approve it.
@kykazaa you can try fixxit or itfixr or itfxxxr but they don’t all have the same ring.
@djslack @kykazaa
Maybe
T I C K - F
@djslack @kykazaa The church angle things up. You can choose a Bible reference!
AHAB
BALAAM
BAAL
BTHSHBA
EGLON
SHEOL
GEHENNA
GOLGTHA
PILATE
I OF NEDL
Heh. BLZBUB is already issued, as are LUCIFER, GOMER, BELIAL…
@djslack too funny, the form actually has a field for the “meaning of the plate”, so new challenge, come up with a second meaning that can be used on the form.
@kykazaa “I fix things in extreme situations. the extra X’s are for emphasis of how ‘exxxtreme’ the situations are. Plate reads as ‘FIXXXX IT!’”
HTTP 404
@romellex
HTTP 301.
Might I redirect your attention, Officer, to that other vehicle ahead of me…
HAWK1Z or GO HWKS
Maybe RTFM? Otherwise ID TEN T or PEBKAC, as those are well known enough by IT folks.
Also I feel old as I’ve had this for 21+ years already!
@narfcake Yay!
@cf1 @narfcake I do like a good PEBKAC error… As long as I don’t have to fix it
@cf1 @narfcake @unksol
ID10T
TIO TIBO
Turn it off Turn it back on
@kdemo the best Microsoft product trouble shooting advice ever
@kdemo @kykazaa I’ve always pronounced that advice as “Turn it on and off again” – solving root causes.
“BOC” is available
@mml666 I like that
@mml666 bandolier of carrots - right?
@kykazaa Yep. Or if you prefer a variant:
@mml666 Bastard Over Corona
“MEH K” and publicly show off your meh Kickstarter status
CHZLVER
@medz no. Just no. I hate the packers. I lived in Chicago during the 80’s.
VTBIDEN
@medz you had to go political didn’t you?
@medz
/giphy puppies
@tinamarie1974
I see what you did there… TY
Mine’s already taken
@spitfire6006006
ELUNO
@ELUNO only if you guarantee to send me an IRK every time they come up
@kykazaa I can send you some homemade Irk (literal trash)
@ELUNO hmmm…pass
KYKAZAA is still available…
as is
3XADAD (a nod to the kidlets)
@chienfou I thought about kykazaa as well, but it means nothing to anyone but me
@kykazaa which is really devious… I already spend a lot of time trying to puzzle out vanity plates.
Do you get many tickets? If so
@j2 How about
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/wiseguy-changes-license-plate-to-null-gets-12k-in-parking-tickets/
@blaineg @j2 this is a hysterical story
meh com without dot is available
along with this
SLOW AF
@mike808 I should get this as a joke. I drive like a speed demon.
PTNY BWES
@ybmuG Isn’t that a duplicate of the one directly above?
@blaineg subliminally, that’s probably why I thought of it…
1ST 2 FLY
SWFT DRVR
HYTTOAO is available.
No one will probably ever get it… Unless they know you. And “have you tried turning it off and on…”
/youtube have you tried turning it off and on again
@unksol one of my favorites on Conan…it’s a bit old, but it is hysterical…
75BUCKS
(for some reason oplates doesn’t want to load for me just now.)
that’s how much extra personalized plates cost in Ohio…
'course, you could say you were a big fan of the 1975 Buckeyes…
@earlyre That’s nothing for personal plates. They are in the multiple hundreds in CA, depending on the plate style.
@Fuzzalini well… starting this year( Jan 1,2020) Ohio charges an extra $100 for a hybrid, $200 for a plug-in or full electric…
Last year ( same car) I paid ~$50 for plates, this year, $151. Supposedly to offset the gas tax I’m not paying…
If I personalized it would be an additional $75.
My brother had personalized plates on his volt until that law was passed. No way he was paying $275/yr for registration.
Actually, his birthday is close enough to the first of the year, he was able to renew it for 5 years in December, before the new fee came into effect. Basically saving himself $1000…if he keeps the car that long…
@earlyre @Fuzzalini glad I don’t live in a California…for this and many other reasons
what’s your stand on apple products?
since your an IT guy, got a 50/50 chance…
cuz…
might backfire with the kiddos though…
@earlyre well I’m somewhat divided. For mobile
I am Apple, but for everything else, it’s Windows
Legos you say?..
fan of the Lego Movie???
@earlyre I love the Kra—Gl-e
I’ll never pay for a custom plate but I just realized I have no idea what the plate number is on the 97 expedition I bought last year…
Which is weird cause I know the plate number on the laid up Saturn by heart and still do for 16+ years.
@unksol I can’t remember my plate…had the same one since…early '14. I have to reference pictures on my phone if i need to know it for something.
the last one I can remember CR58CD, I ran from 2003-2010. had…3 different ones since then. can’t remember a one of 'em…
@earlyre yeah I just realized I should know it or at least have a pic… Haven’t driven it anywhere but around town since I fixed it but… Good thing to know
@kykazaa
what engine?
the 2.7EB, and 3.0 are made here in Lima…
LIMA27, and LIMA30 both available
the FWD NA 3.5 & 3.7 are also made here,
LIMA35 is available, but LIMA37 is taken…
(RWD versions, and EB3.5 made in Cleveland)
@earlyre honestly not sure. v8, but aside from that not sure
@kykazaa that’d be the 5.0 “Coyote” engine. built in Windsor, Ontario.
@earlyre this made me think of F150 50, but it shows as F 15050 on the site…too bad
@medz That’s for you. Right?
Lky WEENI
In Kentucky there’s a manual approval process after selecting what you want. It takes a few weeks.
You have to explain what it means. Then my guess is that they pass it around to make sure you aren’t picking anything nasty.
I was limited to five characters because I picked a special plate, too.
To prepare you to get out and vote on November 3, I am going to put the license plate q to a Mehtizen vote. I will reply with the short listed ones. As a side note, great suggestions and was really hard to narrow the field.
Thanks for your inputs! Please now vote (or just star the post) according to how you would like to see me drive for the next 4 years. Remember, the winner will get a homemade IRK from me (if they want it), so rally your votes!
MEH GOAT (thanks @therealjrn)
LEGOOH (thanks me)
MEHNIAC (thanks @kdemo)
F1FDIY (thanks @djslack)
MEH COM (thanks @communist)
Don’t want to muck up your voting thread, but if it wins, you are welcome to use MEHNIAC without an IRK tax.
So @kykazaa’s FIRK (Faux IRK) prize arrived a day ahead of schedule! Quite possibly it’s the only thing that will come in early this week. I didn’t know if I should start its own thread since it’s a 1 of 1 item, so I figured it best to bring it here.
May I just say that you, sir, have outdone yourself! A large flat rate box of significant heft arrived, packed to the gills with goods and straining against the tape that dared contain it all.
Contents:
What a jam-packed prize! Thanks @kykazaa, you’ve made a huge splash around here with a kick-ass goathood and great contest. I hope your license plate brings you great success, and you keep piping up with awesome around here!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
@djslack glad you enjoyed it! Don’t be afraid to plug the soccer ball into your computer. While I now realize I should have included some additional PC based fun it is only blank. But, it does work (if you can figure out how to open it)
@djslack @kykazaa wow! What a haul! Nice!
@kykazaa I certainly did enjoy it, thank you. I had no idea about the soccer ball, so it’s a puzzle and usb drive too! thanks for the tip.
I just was informed I should have been horrified by this prize package. Shame on us all!
/giphy shame shame
SOOOO…a little update on the license plate. As you all may recall, I ran out of time and had to get one of my plates - LEGOOH. Had it proudly displayed on my 2020 F-150. Alas, some genius (likely paying more attention to his phone than the red light) was nice enough to drive into my LEGOOH and let’s just say, LEGOOH is no more.
So, the good news is that the insurance covered the loss and I went out and got a new F150. @djslack Time to order F1FDIY!
@kykazaa are you ok?
@tinamarie1974 mostly ok. Airbags went off by my ear and oddly enough that is the worst physical aspect. Hearing is still off and Dr said it could be 6 months if it comes back fully. Emotionally, my daughter is still dealing with it and doesn’t want to get back in any of our vehicles and I am overly cautious driving now. But considering he was probably going 50+ and we walked away with that little I feel blessed. Truck v Car…glad I was in the truck.
@kykazaa glad you guys are ok, but your poor daughter. That had to be so traumatic for her
@kykazaa @tinamarie1974 Wow, yeah - I’m glad you got out of that as well as you did!
@kykazaa YIKES!!! That is a rather extreme way to justify new license plates (
). Glad you are basically OK but sheesh the pictures look like that was really scary and that you got lucky.
@kykazaa @tinamarie1974 Glad you’re OK, but seriously, if you feel weird or foggy, get attention. A friend just had a similar accident - t-boned on drivers side at an intersection - and got his bell rung a bit by the airbags. Was feeling foggy the next day and ended up having a bunch of bleeding in his brain. Thankfully it cleared up quickly before they had to surgically relieve the pressure.
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG sorry to hear about your friend and I appreciate the concern. I had ambulance check both my daughter and I out and went to ENT as soon as I could get an appt. Doc said it is normal to have some issues like this following the explosion (airbags seemed to use gunpowder to inflate) near my ear. He said it could take up to 6 months for it to return to normal (if it does at all). Time will tell.
@kykazaa @tinamarie1974 I suppose better some temporary hearing loss with airbags than the physical trauma you’d have without them. Besides, it gives you an excuse for not listening (if that’s helpful in any way).
Seriously, hope you recover quickly and glad your daughter is fine.
@kykazaa that sucks about the truck, but I’m glad you were able to walk away. Here’s hoping F1FDIY has a longer and more fortuitous life!
@djslack I’m a man of my word…
@kykazaa (cue the bot)… Awesome! Enjoy the new truck, too!
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
@kykazaa Out of curiosity, why didn’t you just transfer your LEGOOH plate to the new truck?
3DGHTRS