Today, the California DMV released the following list of 100 banned license plates. The list, accumulated over the past few years, has some obvious offenders. Others, like “3MTA3,” are a little trickier to decode. How many of them can you translate? More »
I think that we should get an online dictionary rolling over here! Everybody who is able to decipher one of the more cryptic ones, please contribute!
I get about 30% of these, but with the other ones?
14VNSSA = 14 year old Vanessa??? (child molesting?)
502MGN = Yeah, It’s a gun. Seen many trucks with a “Insured by Smith & Wessun” sticker so what’s the deal?
ORGASEM = Well, why not wish that to your fellow motorists?
FKBTCHS = If you want to put that on your Bro’magnon truck? Why not? At least you are telling the decent ladies that you wanted to be on the cast of the “Jersey Shore”.
DAWEENA = You like sausages?
BHANGUZ = Again, Jersey Shore.
But with RHOSIDE?
Let’s translate them all!
Klaus
Saw a corvette today with the plate “TICKETS”
The DMV wouldn’t let me get a plate that said “HATE ME” , but “H8 ME” would have been fine.. I didn’t want to have a plate that you had to decode so I got “GET MAD”
Freakusaurus
Assassin, I would assume, runs afoul of a zero tolerance rule on references to murder or violence.
smalleyxb122
I’m with you. If I don’t get it right away, I’m not going too far out of my way to try and decipher it. These could be gang references that I don’t even know exist or god only knows what else.
truenorthstrongandfree
Sweet. I can still get my ideal plate.
MSTRB8TR.
I’m an expert at tying fishing flies.
jodark
the obsurdity of it all is that if only a handful of people complain (or even just 2 sometimes!) then the DMV may label the plate ‘offensive’… want to play a joke on a coworker? Figure out a way to decode their license plate number into something offensive, and write 2 or 3 letters to that effect… you have a pretty good chance of getting their plate revoked – even if it was a randomly assigned combination.
freelunch
I’m probably kind of dumb because I don’t get most of them.
Shamoononon
I saw “SSHIKSA” and recognized Shiksa, but to be honest, I didn’t know it was considered offensive. i’m from Western Canada (not a big Jewish population) so admittedly I’m not exposed to a lot of Jewish culture. It’s a gentile woman with a Jewish husband, no?
truenorthstrongandfree
I understand rejecting the profanity, gang and nazi references, and the blatantly sexual ones, but several can’t be even remotely offensive, and many others I can’t decipher (those are probably the dirtiest ones of all, right?)
smalleyxb122
2 in pink and 1 in stink referrs to a “shocker” which I don;t think is polite by anyone’s definition.
etampon is also a bit creepy. Tampons shouldn’t be on anyone’s diet.
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bombastinator
McLovin2
a shishka is a female gentile married to a jew, or simply a non jewish woman. It is a rude term, but commonly used by the community. women married to jewish men often call themselves shishkas.
bombastinator
Shiksa is a reasonably derogatory term in Yiddish.
Dogapult launched Wheatley into SPAAAACE!
helboy is a cartoon character. If they pull that they have to pull all the other ones too. batman superman etc..
bombastinator
Someone at the DMV obviously does not agree with the Mercator projection map.
crazydog115
mine is “BINARY 4″ … go here, and click on the 4, for translation: [www.glassgiant.com]
flodrab
In America, yes.
Mikeadö ist der Formüla J Ringmeister
They raining on your parade…
Hmmmm…
“MLP*FIM” hasn’t been banned…
TwitchdelaBrat
They raining on your parade…
Hmmmm…
“MLP*FIM” hasn’t been banned…
TwitchdelaBrat
They raining on your parade…
Hmmmm…
“MLP*FIM” hasn’t been banned…
TwitchdelaBrat
An female acquaintance with a 993 Targa had “TARGASM” as her plate. The Texas authorities didn’t seem to mind.
Vizzini
BOTO? Any idea what that is?
SSHIKSA?
And how can anybody be offended by Lov Sux (Love Sucks)? AlHakam (I’ll Hack Em)? Asasin (Assasin)? Are people that thin skinned?
r.hein1969
Honestly, I can only decode maybe 10 of them, and I didn’t see what was offensive about any of them. I have custom plates, too, but you can actually -=read=- mine.
ninjagin
screw Commufornia
half those are awesome and not offensive at all..
WTF HAXX is awesome.. so is blwn69Z which obviously came off a Blown 69 Camaro Z28…
hate California..
Jason Pope
ANLYKAG
2BSOCK
WERTLV
WRTDRGN
freds4hb
They be raining on your parade…
And “MLP*FiM”
Hasn’t been banned, Interesting…
TwitchdelaBrat
A few side notes… 69 is allowed on 69 model year cars only.
Also anything with 14 ir 88 are also highly restricted as they have meanings to white supremacists. On a side note there used to be a white 930 driven by a black guy with the lic plate whtepwr also somehow a Viper got FPORSHE through, and I have seen pics of the CA plate F ENZO on take a wild guess? GT 40 replica…
Foo2rama
LMFAO At Shiksa. They must have had a Jewish DMV worker to catch that one.
Dr. Oppo-puss will soon own a WRX
My favorite one, saw it on a truck in San Diego years ago:
POOH C
veronykah
Okay, still don’t get most of them. Need a translation into actual English and why it’s bad or was rejected/banned. I mean some, such as 1in stnk and 2in pink I get. But something like MERKTR, I don’t get. Should I start trying random phonetic pronunciations and looking them up on urban dictionary or something?
Eltigro
Man, anyone who’s got a supercharged ’69 Z-28 is screwed. NOPLT4U
98wagoon