interesting (?) licence plate

[javasaurus]

driving to College Park yesterday, saw one of the new licence plates. For about 20 years now, the standard licence plates in Maryland have been letter letter letter, number number number. Now they are going to a new sequence, number letter letter, letter number number.

We (BE and I) did a double take when we saw the following:

8AD A33

Comments

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Makes you wonder if they requested that one... or if they haven't a clue...

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

If it had been requested, it would have been reviewed. Also, the first set of plates coming out will all have A as the second character, so it fits the current release set.

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

Still, it looks like *somebody* at the MVA was having a bit of fun with that. Was the plate on a white Lincoln Towncar driven by a set of knuckles on the steering wheel and a puff of white hair? That would have been funny.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

Hey, it would have been even **funnier** if that dude from the 6 Flags commercials was riding shotgun...

[cozit.livejournal.com]

True, it fits... but not everyone would see in it what some of us twisted brain geek-types might.

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

I don't know - that seems awfully obvious for something random. Doesn't the MVA try to screen out stuff like that, anyway?

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

Think about it. Your average employee at the MVA is an over-worked beaureaucrat who barely has time to go to the bathroom during the workday. I really doubt most of them are down with l33t-speak. And even if the over-worked beaureaucrat who came across the tag was hip to l33t, considering s/he is working at the MVA, s/he might be just twisted enough to think it was funny and let it slide.