An immaculately dressed person was seen getting out of a car with this license plate-- near the Irving Park neighborhood in Greensboro. Somehow we think the reference was to Coco Chanel and not one of Julia Child's cooking ingredients. For our international readers, in the USA, car owners can pay extra and purchase what we call "vanity tags" saying anything that fits on the plate-- about 7-8 letters or less-- as long as the message is not obscene or does not defame anyone. The licensing agency even checks to make sure the references are appropriate in other languages!
Mr. GDP maintains that vanity plates are only worth their extra cost if the average person can figure out the meaning within about 20 seconds. If people are still wondering what you are trying to say when the light turns green, you've not invested your money well! Do you have a favorite vanity tag? We liked LUV COCO because it fit the owner's style. We featured this one last year. Would you pay the extra money for one? What would it say? What is a creative one that you've seen recently?
Hope our Ruby Tuesday Crowd LUVs COCO today! Now that the Duke University Basketball Team won the NCAA Championship last night, likely, we'll see even more LUV DUKE, GO DUKE, DUKE #1 vanity tags!!!
It's very popular in Sweden as well, with personalised licence plates. Some are funny, others are a bit weird but it often makes for a photo-op like here!
Posted by: Steffe | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 06:18 AM
Iluvplats
Posted by: B^2 | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 08:31 AM
Luv it but no I wouldn't buy it
Posted by: Mo | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 05:20 PM
Great capture. I take great pleasure in trying to figure out these vanity tags (I don't have one myself).
Here is the link to one that I captured a while back: http://bfarr-nala.blogspot.com/2009/01/sign-of-times_28.html
I'm glad you got a chuckle out of the spring pollen shot : )
Barb
Posted by: barbara farr | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Israel has only boring numbers for our plates. But I remember seeing plates in California that would be funny only to Israelis/Hebrew speakers. Sorry, can't remember any of them, though.
Coco, I assumed cocoa before reading on.
Your state is lucky to have the airplane pictured. Kitty Hawk, eh?
Posted by: Dina | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 06:41 AM