Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/13/33mta3-is-a-banned-license-pla.html
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Note to Self: The DMV plate ban list is the place to find great boat names.
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Lots of perverts, and one very disappointed Arizona Boba Fett fan.
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33MTA3 seems like an innocuous combination of letters and numbers. Until you see them in a rear view mirror.
Really, shouldn’t that be “Until you see them through the looking glass”
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#needsmorelikes
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A clever license plate can be fun.
But these sophomoric. scatological and tasteless license plates are even better.
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Done my duty one this… 
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when I was in college a hundred years ago or so, some boys thought they were very clever for getting California to issue them a UFRCAR license plate.
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No mention of 6UALDV8.
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My brother named his pontoon boat the Isle of Mann (he even has a large flag that he flies off the back, so it’s quite distinctive). A close second was Flounder Pounder.
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Banned? Maybe you gotta fight for your right…
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Hats off to whoever came up with this brilliant tag. Hats. Off.
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My jaw dropped when I discovered that this plate was actually issued in CA:
ETA: OK, apparently this is not a difficult plate to get and DMV employees do not watch Arrested Development:
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I’m a little disappointed, if not surprised, that KOTEX wasn’t allowed.
And this thread wouldn’t be complete without the best random plate:
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/images/photos/risque/graphics/a550rgy.jpg
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You can often get away with curses in non-English languages: there is guy in Boston I’ve seen with “PIZDETS” as his license plate.
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I always thought “QQQQ” was clever wordplay…
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When I was in high school one one of the french teachers had the plate “MERDE”.
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Back in pre-Internet days Harper’s ran a piece about someone who retold classic stories using only CA personalized license plates, and published one of them, Oedipus Rex. It was an interesting and wonderful thing.
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That’s a shitty thing to do!
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