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Title: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Ummon on September 19, 2008, 11:06:14 pm
When I was younger, I had this habit of making little phonetic names out of license plate numbers. Especially in Arizona, it's three letters, three numbers (though before the 80s it was the reverse) and it was a cute little game to 'name' them.

Well, yesterday I was out and I saw this late-model oldsmobile (I think) van and the license plate sorta called out to me. It said NGZ ***. I remembered my little game......I wondered who was driving the van. It turned out to be this black gentleman and his kid I'd seen in the store just earlier.
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: punxrus on September 19, 2008, 11:10:35 pm
Honestly...Where the hell did this come from?!?!  ???
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Mauzy on September 19, 2008, 11:18:24 pm
I do the same thing. Guess it was my luck to get a plate with only one letter and 5 numbers on it. Nothing can be made out of that... depresses the hell outta me...
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Ed_McCarron on September 19, 2008, 11:42:30 pm
Great.  Mine starts with DMB.
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: RayB on September 20, 2008, 12:50:33 am
We'll just refer to Ummon from now on as "nagger guy"
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: TOK on September 20, 2008, 08:09:55 pm
Paging PatrickL to Everything Else Forum.

PatrickL to Everything Else immediately. Thank you.

 ;D
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Ummon on September 21, 2008, 05:13:01 pm
Honestly...Where the hell did this come from?!?!  ???

I thought that was made clear.


I do the same thing. Guess it was my luck to get a plate with only one letter and 5 numbers on it. Nothing can be made out of that... depresses the hell outta me...

Hahn.


Great.  Mine starts with DMB.

Ummm..

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Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: protokatie on September 22, 2008, 12:49:49 am
Great.  Mine starts with DMB.

Is the rest of it 455 or A55? ;)
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Malenko on September 23, 2008, 09:36:45 am
I want mine to say "3M TA3"
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Ed_McCarron on September 23, 2008, 06:53:18 pm
Great.  Mine starts with DMB.

Is the rest of it 455 or A55? ;)

First thing that came to my mind when I first saw the plate.

Me, to car dealer...

"Can I have a different plate?"

"Sure"

He brings back one with a different last 4 digits.  All the plates they had started with DMB.  When I told him people would look at it and see "dumb" he had that deer in the headlights look...
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: protokatie on September 23, 2008, 06:59:50 pm
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All the plates they had started with DMB.  When I told him people would look at it and see "dumb" he had that deer in the headlights look...

Well, if he is that daft, maybe they gave him those plates on purpose...  ;D
Title: Re: Little games and coincidences
Post by: Ummon on September 25, 2008, 08:14:43 pm
Great.  Mine starts with DMB.

Is the rest of it 455 or A55? ;)

First thing that came to my mind when I first saw the plate.

Me, to car dealer...

"Can I have a different plate?"

"Sure"

He brings back one with a different last 4 digits.  All the plates they had started with DMB.  When I told him people would look at it and see "dumb" he had that deer in the headlights look...

I think it's a cultural thing. I still have troubles figuring out the '3' thing. That kind of stuff I just don't identify with. And growing up, letters were abbreviations, almost period.