Originally published at: Coveted California 'CASH' vanity plate goes on the market for $2 million | Boing Boing
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Huh. So why does the pic show it on a Mustang?
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Hold up. There’s a whole website that generates income by auctioning off personalized license plates?
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Of course there is. If something can be commoditized it has been
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I believe that is a Ferrari logo
(ETA I do like that apparently we both had to look it up. Not knowing for sure off the top of our heads speaks well of us, I think)
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Ah thanks! I didn’t realize Ferrari also uses a Furious Horsey logo. I’m not much of a sportscar/phallic symbol fetishist.
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Apparently horses are very big in that sector:
(for certain values of “interesting”)
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Me, either. That’s why I wrote, then deleted. Then undeleted. I should STFU and go back to sleep.
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You’d think they’d have gotten over the transition from horse-drawn buggies by now.
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I think the enthusiasts would say that it is because of the use of the term horsepower.
I think that it is actually because they are trying to manifest another aspect of male horses.
Unsuccessfully
ETA: Edited to remove what, on reflection, I decided was an offensive use of a term for an indigenous practice
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Huh. And here I was thinking It’s because they’re closet Osmonds fans.
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I wonder what Team Actuary says about this particular license plate with regard to auto insurance. It’s a pretty niche case; but I’m guessing that it doesn’t just scream “low cost and low risk”.
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That may be the most horrible thing I’ve ever heard. I could wind up hating you forever for that.
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I am suddenly interested in selling my personalized plates too.
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You can sell personalized plates in California? When I was there, I was under the impression this could not be done, because you can’t transfer a plate without selling the car, you don’t get to keep the plates when you get rid of a car, and you can’t transfer plates from one car to another unless you own both cars. I know people do all these things sometimes, but I was told it isn’t legal to do any of them. I would have liked to keep the last vanity plates I had when I lived there, but there appeared to be no legal way to do that.
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