It's a vanity plate conundrum

I am obsessed with vanity license plates. Looking for them, I mean. I'm in the car a lot, so I amuse myself by looking for vanity plates and trying to figure out what they mean. Some are obvious. This one, not so much.

Bean Tater?
Bean Twayder?

What you do think? I am leaning toward "Bean Twayder," which I translate as "Bean trader" with an Elmer Fudd accent. But what is a bean trader? Maybe a stock broker? Or maybe it's just random numbers and letters and means nothing at all.

Here are a few vanity plates that I've seen around town on numerous occasions. Some of these I've been able to meet the owners and get the story behind the letters. Others are a mystery.

ADOPT
NMYELMNT
FOSHIZLE
CYSERMAN
MINIME
PUPTAXI
GRRRRR
CLRA2RA
AFTAN B
CRAKABOX
BOBALOO
TNTEXAN
1TEXAN
CLARITY

What vanity plates have you seen? Next time you see a good one, take a pic and send it my way.

PS for more vanity plate foolishness and mayhem, visit http://horriblelicenseplates.blogspot.com.

friday vanities.

what does a vanity plate say about a person? i'm not always sure, because in most cases, i snap a photo of a plate without ever meeting the owner.

considering the extra cost and effort that goes into getting a vanity plate, i'm constantly amazed at the semi-lame vanity plates i see.

and even worse are the ones that are clearly meant to say something, but no one but the owner can tell what it means.

that's just frustrating.

that's how i felt about this one.

Scene Set?
Sun Set?
Scone set?

but then i ran into the owner, and i was able to ask the meaning.

he told me it represents sconset, a village in nantucket his family loves to visit.

awwwww .... that's nice.

this one, i had to look up. was it perhaps the plural form of uranium? nope.

urania seems to be the name of some kind of greek goddess who may or may not be aphrodite and may or may not be the daughter of zeus.

come on, people, that's just plain annoying.

this one was e-mailed to me by my texan friend. (her plate reads 1 TEXAN)

it's straightforward and to the point, as vanity plates should be, so i'm going to give this one a B+.

but here's another head scratcher.

an independent recording artist?
an independent woman?
an independent mary kay cosmetics consultant?

there's just no tellin'.

[insert aggravated face here.]

at last. a vanity plate i can get behind. this gal's into the dance class zumba. she so into it, she's the queen of it.

i like it.

keep 'em comin' folks. and have a great weekend!

repeat after me, "vanity plates are fun!"

yes, i've seen more vanity plates around town and captured many with my handy-dandy blackberry.

even when it meant chasing moving cars on foot through the whole foods parking lot.

anyway.

you may find this boring but for some reason i cannot stop looking for vanity plates where ever i go. if anyone sees an "IMA MAC," please take a snap and send it in!

Vanity, oh vanity ...

A faithful reader sent me this link. Check out these hilarious and sometimes disturbing vanity plates.

vanity, oh Vanity

the vanity plates are neverending, it seems. after a drought of seeing very few, i saw a bunch in one 24-hour period. oh joy. i just had to share.

this one, SATCO, no doubt references the ever popular San Antonio Taco Company, a famous Nashville joint.

others I saw during last night's and this morning's commute include:

BJOYOUS
ILUVSUZ
ICURHRT
HOTCHAI
SKRAPS
EQUSTRN

enjoy. and happy friday.

my highway buddies

i enjoy spotting vanity plates while driving. i like to think about who that person is, and why they chose that plate to represent who they are.

what's really fun is when i see the same plate more than once. that's when i count that person among my commuter friends, my vanity plate hall of fame.

i saw PUPLIMO both coming and going to work last week, and lo and behold, there she was again this morning, stopped right in front of me in a rain-induced traffic jam.

who is the puplimo lady? she drives a honda element. that we know. but why is her car a pup limo? does she have show dogs? i don't think so, because if she did, surely there would be some kind of window sticker proclaiming "i [heart] pomeranians," or some other such nonsense.

nope, just a puplimo tag and a "life is good" sticker, which means she's outdoorsy.

presumably, anyway. if i ever meet her in person, i'll ask.

vanity abounds

due to rain and the need to keep my car on the road, i wasn't able to capture some of the best vanity plates i saw over the past week.

this one is not bad. it gets to the point.

but the ones i really like are clever descriptors of the driver him/herself. they amuse me and make my commute a little more fun.

STINKY, PHAT, OLHIPPE AND DRJAZZ - i salute you. keep 'em coming.

friday vanities.

vanity plates seem to fall into several categories.

there are last names ...

first names ...

and nicknames.

sometimes the plate reflects how the person sees himself.

or how he sees his car.

come on now. bugs are cool, but i think this takes it too far.

sometimes the plate reflects a lifestyle. in this case, cruising the mother road. click on the image for a closer look.

a lot of plates refer to sports. who's number one? we are!

i guess this guy couldn't narrow it down to just one team.

and then there's this. we've seen a few incarnations of this particular exclamation.

what vanity plates have you seen? send them to me and i'll post them here.

Vanity, oh vanity!

a few more interesting plates i've seen.

the first one is from my sis in l.a. i am loving the bat mobile!

the last one i had to post despite my lack of enthusiasm for the tennessee vols. i cannot resist a good pun.

volnut. rhymes with walnut. get it?

oh, nevermind.

More cool vanity plates

I spend a lot of time in the car. To keep myself occupied, I look for vanity plates. This one is pretty straightforward, unlike the last one I posted about.

back by popular demand: friday vanities.

vanity plates are meant to say a lot about their owners.

but this one has me stumped.

it's a tennessee plate, and clearly the driver is a UT vols fan.

but there's a texas sticker.

so does DUBL R stand for something texas-ish?

a quick google came up with double r hunting club in houston.

inquiring minds want to know.

another texan. i swear, texans are more likely to have vanity plates than anybody else i know. remember this? and this?

i like the straightforward ones. that way i spend less time distracted while driving.

and that's a good thing, don't you think?

wait. what were we talking about?

anyway, it's always nice to see the inspirational plates.

i wonder what this person is so passionate about? hmmm....

have you seen any good plates? send them my way!

oh, and happy friday!

Friday Give Away

As always, I'm obsessed with vanity plates. You would think that I would have one, but I don't. Hmmm. If I did, what would it be?

Post your suggestions in the comment box, using seven letters or less.

For your trouble, I'll put you in a drawing for some fun Mary Kay samples. And when I get my new car soon, perhaps it will be adorned with your vanity plate suggestion.

Happy Friday!

PS if you can't read the last two, they are NONNY and LEMNDRP.

a little vanity plate love

i've tried not to bore you with these, but i'm sort of obsessed with photographing vanity plates. so here are a few, for your viewing pleasure.

i'm taking a fondant class tomorrow at sweetwise, so i'll fill you in on that soon.

happy friday!

more vanity 4 u

yesterday after picking up the boy I saw a vanity plate that said dores (i.e., vu commodores).

i scrambled for my blackberry to take a picture, but low and behold, my blackberry was gone. i pulled over and searched the car and it was not to be found. so i circled back to childcare, parked and scoured the lot.

just as i feared, i had left it sitting on the back of the car while i strapped in the boy. it must have flown off as i drove away.

there it was, laying in rubble in an alleyway. luckily it had not been run over and seems no worse for wear.

i didn't capture the dores plate but here are a few others i saw this week.





footnote: no shock that miss glamma drives a lexus, ms patent lawyer drives a merc and mr dooku drives a saturn. (though i can't imagine a star wars fanatic who likes hockey, but hey, it takes all kinds.)

the obsession continues ... and now i've infected others

my preoccupation with vanity license plates continues. my cool cousin karen k sent me this one from illinois. who knew banjo players existed north of the mason dixon line?