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Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 04 December 2008, 00:37:37

(http://bhtooefr.ath.cx/images/licenseplate.png)

Yes, it's available. :D

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: bigpook on Thu, 04 December 2008, 00:39:23

I never thought of that. Thats way clever.

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 04 December 2008, 00:43:23

Strong.

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 04 December 2008, 00:44:50

thats excellent :)
I wonder how many people use that as their password :)

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: secularzarathustra on Thu, 04 December 2008, 01:23:30

goddammit

*changing password*

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: D-EJ915 on Thu, 04 December 2008, 01:28:34

:roll: nice

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: lowpoly on Thu, 04 December 2008, 01:30:51

:)

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 04 December 2008, 01:40:12

lol :D
I almost used it as a password too

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: lexicon on Thu, 04 December 2008, 02:38:50

I was going to say that that is one seriously obscure reference, but if you Google "1391401," you get more than 6,000 hits, and even 29 pages into the listings, most hits are about the Model M.  Makes sense, I guess.  There must have been hundreds of thousands of them produced, and most of those that have survived have by now gravitated to people who actually know what they are.

As I'm in your general area, I promise to honk if I ever see your plates.

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 04 December 2008, 03:51:44

I'm not gonna get these for a while, I don't have $35 for the vanity plate charge lying around, but... I'll probably do it when it comes time to renew the plates.

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 04 December 2008, 05:19:43

I used to have personalized, university plates.  In Texas, you have to make a $30 donation to the school on your plates (University of Texas in my case).  The school would (more like should) send you a donation form, and after submitting it, you would get the paperwork to get the plates renewed.  I had them for about 3 years and got rid of them, because I always had to fight the school to get the donation form, and inevitably, I would always be late getting the new tags.  Fortunately, I never got a ticket (even after I failed to renew them for over a year).

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: cchan on Thu, 04 December 2008, 05:44:10

You know what's cool? G84 4100 would be a regular series Illinois plate. (I'm a hobbyist licence plate spotter as well as a keyboard enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't live in IL so if I wanted that plate I'd have to pay for the personalised plate surcharge.)

Title: I think I may have just figured out the license plate I'm going to get...
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 04 December 2008, 05:48:07

Most of the initial reserve plates in Ohio that I'd want have already been assigned.

(Ohio uses xxx nnnn, and they're already nearing the end of the Exx nnnns.)