The idea of acquiring a vanity license plate has always appealed to me, not because I’m particularly vain, but because of the requisite wordplay and mnemonics. Who doesn’t appreciate spying a well-formulated vanity license plate when careening through the busy roadways of our ever-clever nation?
As is widely known, each state has a vanity license plate committee that screens each request for profanity. For example, KIX A55, ZUCKU, and RU A TTTT would be disallowed for fear that a fellow motorist would become so offended by a stranger’s bad taste that they’d crash into a school bus. Some vanity license plate enthusiasts go to great lengths to try and outwit the governmental arbiters.
Surprisingly, vanity plate requests are considered in context. According to this article on Philly.com, TOPLESS would be approved for a convertible, and SEXTON would be approved for Mr. and Mrs. Sexton. No mention if 38DDD would require similar validation.
But in Colorado, one woman had ILUVTOFU turned down, despite the fact that she was a hard-core vegan.
The best vanity plate that I’ve ever seen in person was at a car show for classic minicars. One of the tiny cars had a Ontario license plate that said SMALL EH.
