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08-28-2019, 10:38 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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In NC, the normal sequences have been 3 letters, 3 numbers (or visa versa).
Right before the internet meme got popular, they issued a whole string of "WTF" plates. Once this became widely known (about 2008), some people were very mad and demanded a replacement, others held tightly onto them trying to avoid a recall, proud of their plate.
Last I heard the state was forcing a recall. I'm pretty sure they are all gone now.
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08-28-2019, 11:24 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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Me too. Holy moly - and to think that pb4uski has been in our midst all this time, and I never "got" it 
You've been here since 2010, and I only just cottoned on 
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08-28-2019, 11:35 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally Posted by f35phixer
In my community here is a vanity plate = FUGIT...
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I'm sure the only reason he has that is because TEMPUS wouldn't fit before FUGIT. 
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08-28-2019, 11:59 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: The Great Wide Open
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I'm sure the only reason he has that is because TEMPUS wouldn't fit before FUGIT. |
+1 Yes, it does! 
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08-28-2019, 12:17 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: North
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PB4USKI is now my all time hero of this forum. He is the only person I know who can hide in plain sight. That's somewhat of a magical thing IMHO!
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08-28-2019, 12:26 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2017
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I've always thought pb4uski had something to do with beer (brewski)!
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08-28-2019, 12:31 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
It's based on your innate ability to see the hidden meaning.
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All you who say you just now got PB4, I suppose my effort above was completely wasted. 
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08-28-2019, 12:31 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Near Sacramento
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tb001
I've always thought pb4uski had something to do with beer (brewski)!
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I always did, too. But it sure makes sense. It is a pain to stop and go once you hit the snow. :O)
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08-28-2019, 12:36 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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You give some of us too much credit REW. We might have figured out how to FIRE, but we're not that smart
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On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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08-28-2019, 12:36 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Syracuse
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I always thought PB was for Power Boat.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tb001
I've always thought pb4uski had something to do with beer (brewski)!
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08-28-2019, 02:06 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I thought pb4uski had something to do with "Ruski" (Russkies) at first. Somebody said something that caused the p-enny to drop for me. It wasn't an actual explanation, just a remark of some kind and "Click!"
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08-28-2019, 02:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
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I remember pb4uski’s retirement day.
I hope he remembered 2 p b4 he FIREd.
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08-28-2019, 02:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tb001
I've always thought pb4uski had something to do with beer (brewski)!
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Two notions that we don't want to mix... unless you have some brewskis at lunch before going out for some afternoon runs.
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08-28-2019, 02:34 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GravitySucks
I always thought PB was for Power Boat.
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Truth be known, the first time I saw it I was in the water with a slalom ski on behind a powerboat with that name.
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08-28-2019, 02:42 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeWras
There's a certain irony to this happening in the "Live Free or Die" state.
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Yes, yes it is.
Sad actually.
But saying something out of turn or against conventional leanings is now classified as "verbal assault".
Get ready to bow down to governmental nonsense.
Or not!
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08-28-2019, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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When we lived in MD there were two middle-aged Lincoln Continentals (I never saw either driver) parked next to each other in the driveway with the vanity plates TAB A and SLOT B. I figured they must belong to a pair of engineers....
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08-28-2019, 03:04 PM
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So, a pair of engineers wanted to get NULL and VOID. Not a good idea!
The NULL plate actually landed him in some sort of DMV hell.
Read the article linked above. It is really interesting. Basically, all the crap problems of the state where issues occurred and they didn't have a plate (NULL) got attached to this guy's DMV account, even encumbering him from re-registering his car! Sounds like a fake story, but I'm going to assume Wired is not pulling a joke here.
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To many computers, null is the void.That setup also has a brutal punch line—one that left Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to renew his auto registration this year without paying someone else's tickets. And thanks to the Kafkaesque loop he’s caught in, it’s not clear if the citations will ever stop coming.
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08-28-2019, 03:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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My favorite vanity plate was one I saw many years ago on a North Carolina car. That state has as its tagline (at least at the time, not sure if it holds today), "First in Flight," referring to the Wright Brothers. The vanity plate read, "LAST N PAY" so I guess the car's owner wasn't earning much money.
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08-28-2019, 03:36 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Coronado
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeWras
So, a pair of engineers wanted to get NULL and VOID. Not a good idea!
The NULL plate actually landed him in some sort of DMV hell.
Read the article linked above. It is really interesting. Basically, all the crap problems of the state where issues occurred and they didn't have a plate (NULL) got attached to this guy's DMV account, even encumbering him from re-registering his car! Sounds like a fake story, but I'm going to assume Wired is not pulling a joke here. |
DH and I were just talking about this yesterday. Before he even got to the punch line I said "let me guess, he got assigned every ticket where the cop wrote down the wrong plate #." This guy works in the field of online security and he's lived in CA long enough to have had some dealings with the DMV (which has been failing at technology modernization projects for 25 years now) and he couldn't predict that they wouldn't know the difference between NULL and "NULL"? I don't see how this kind of publicity is going to do any good for his future career prospects.
The whole thing reminded me of this classic xkcd comic.
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08-28-2019, 03:56 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pb4uski
Truth be known, the first time I saw it I was in the water with a slalom ski on behind a powerboat with that name.
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You told me that a couple of years ago at our lunch get together, and I still didn't get it until today. Doh!
I'm still sad that VA got rid of the best vanity plate ever. No sense of humor allowed in this country anymore.
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