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WTF... abbreviation on car plates

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by ILPhinFan88, Jun 27, 2008.

  1. ILPhinFan88

    ILPhinFan88 Premium Member Luxury Box

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - OMG! What is that on my car's license plate?

    That's the question asked by 10,000 drivers who registered their vehicles in North Carolina last year and got registrations starting with "WTF."

    Long just an innocuous combination of three letters, like OMG ("Oh my God!") WTF is now heavy with vulgar connotations: it is an oft-used email and mobile phone abbreviation that means "What the f***."

    In North Carolina, WTF plates were issued to some 9,999 drivers last year, including elementary school teacher Mary Ann Hardee, who teaches computing and technology, the News and Observer newspaper reported earlier this month.

    "She wasn't hip to the Internet-age significance of her new license plate -- until she caught her teenage grandchildren giggling at it," Dan Kane, staff writer at the paper wrote.

    This year, North Carolina registrations have three-letter combinations starting with the letter Y.

    The Department of Motor Vehicles has carefully scrutinized the plates and deemed that none are offensive, according to the News and Observer.

    They must have overlooked YBF, which means "You've been f****d."

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ustechnologytransportoffbeat
     
  2. byroan

    byroan Giggity Staff Member Administrator Luxury Box

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    I registered my car last year and got stuck with WSR. WTF would have been so much better.
     
  3. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    WTF?

    Rather have FTW!
     
  4. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Florida will outlaw those abbrev. on vanity plates soon enough. (FFDMVPMOSBIHTSOB)
     
  5. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    4NICK8

    Wonder if that one's open?
     
  6. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    I posted in the other thread that MUFFDVR was not allowed... or at least Im guessing its not from the look that ***** at the DMV gave me :pity:
     
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  7. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    Did you try
    I8PU-C?
     
  8. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    LOL no .

    They actually ask you what the meaning behind your selection is. When I was 16, I requested C0CKY. The lady asked me to explain and I said its a variation of my nickname. After giving me a smug look she said "No ."

    I wonder what my explnation for I8PU-C would be...
     
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  9. Ultra

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  10. texasPHINSfan

    texasPHINSfan New Member

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    RUB1OUT :up:
     
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  11. calphin

    calphin deadly at 250 yards!!

    A few years back a buddy of mine had FAA Q here in calif....he still has the plates on his garage wall.
     
  12. Fin Fan In Cali

    Fin Fan In Cali Dolphin fan since 1970 Luxury Box

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    Best one I saw in Temecula was a 1970's black Cadillac convertible which was sweet, the plate said Got Milf?:lol:
     

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