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Clever Vanity Plate, or Pure Coincidence?
Clever Vanity Plate, or Pure Coincidence?
#1
I saw this plate on a car last night; it was gone before I could take a pic with my cellphone to prove it's real, sadly.  It took me the few moments it was still in sight for me to realize that either it was a crazy coincidence of the numbering scheme, or a clever vanity plate:  WYS-45S, which it took me about 30 seconds to reconstruct into "Wys Ass"/"Wise Ass".

That's it, no great revelations or secrets of the universe.  I just had to mention it to someone.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#2
I glory in 127001, I've seen 'zombie' running around..

I saw 'Kissee' at the airport yesterday. The driver, appropriately enough, was kissing her husband.. who's name is michael kissee. hrmph.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#3
I'd bet on coincidence. At least where I'm from, they don't let you get vanity plates that are too similar to the patterns for the normal ones. I bet they have a bunch of iterators stamping the plates out, and they don't want to risk getting a duplicate plate.
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#4
Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001
You live in your car?
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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#5
Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001

I don't get it.

- CD
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woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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#6
ClassicDrogn Wrote:
Wiredgeek Wrote:I glory in 127001

I don't get it.

- CD
127.0.0.1 is the localhost address for IP networking.  It references the local computer/device.  If you run services on your local computer you can have other services/programs access them through that IP address.  If you want more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
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#7
I don't have a custom plate, but I do have a custom frame around said plate.
ALUMNI

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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#8
Quote:You live in your car?

I actually do keep a cot and a sleeping bag in my work van. Per Diem >>>> Hotel Room.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#9
My favorite vanity plate ever:

http://macnugget.org/photos/cars/feature
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#10
oh that's brilliant!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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Jorlem Wrote:I'd bet on coincidence. At least where I'm from, they don't let you get vanity plates that are too similar to the patterns for the normal ones. I bet they have a bunch of iterators stamping the plates out, and they don't want to risk getting a duplicate plate.

That brings up the question of what the pattern *is* in the state it came from though, since I've at least been lead to believe that it varies. (It certainly couldn't be produced by the pattern here, which has no letters in the first half, no numbers in the second, and no dash between the two.)

-Morgan.
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#12
Quote:That brings up the question of what the pattern *is* in the state it came from though, since I've at least been lead to believe that it varies.
It was a New Jersey plate, and fits the standard pattern for numbers issued in the last decade or so.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#13
if its 3 letters 3 numbers he got away with it because the second grouping is actually 2 numbers 1 letter.
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#14
I'll admit, I once considered getting "4144-PLR" as a vanity plate, but then I discovered other games.
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