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Nevada HOE Wins Slang War

Posted by DFO

July 9, 2009 9:57 a.m. • 16 comments

The vanity license plate on William Junge’s Chevy Tahoe is shown with years of correspondence with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles in the garage of his Las Vegas home Wednesday. Junge has won a battle with the department over the plate, which the DMV wouldn’t renew on grounds he was using a slang reference to whore. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, K.M. Cannon)

Question: Do you have a personalized license plate or one that is something other than standard issue? What kind of plate is it? If it’s a personalized plate, what does it read?

16 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

otisgexperience on July 09 at 10:20 a.m.
Mine say “Otis G”, of course. :)

I saw some California plates in downtown Spokane yesterday that said “A STONER”. Tried to take a picture, but got caught up in another situation… that will soon be on my blog.
danofthecommunity on July 09 at 10:22 a.m.
GO VOTE
DFO on July 09 at 10:23 a.m.
I’ve never had the nerve to get a personalized plate b/c I don’t want my vehicle keyed. If I did, it’d probably read: HUCKS. Or: DFO. As is, I’m content with having two consecutive Kootenai County plate numbers under K 200.
JeanieSpokane on July 09 at 10:30 a.m.
I’m just not clever enough to think of something under 7 characters. But I have a thing about remembering my license number. I had one I just loved: 400 NAY. Very easy to remember. And my parking garage number is also 400. Cool! THEN my car got crunched by a drunk driver and I got a new number - 399 UCC. What are the chances of the numbers being consecutive?
JohnA on July 09 at 10:35 a.m.
Once upon a time I felt I couldn’t afford a personalized plate so I thought of changing my name to K397550.
SmittyK on July 09 at 10:45 a.m.
We have 2 of them

1. Is a Vandal Plate that says Vndl5 for the year SWMBO graduated with her masters @ UI

2. Is a Snowskier plate that says “UNIX” in reference to my working with Network Operating Systems. I was going to get HP-UX11i (Which is the First version of Unix i worked with) but it was too many letters. And everyone would ask me what HPUX was. and plus, I am the only person in the state of Idaho with a Plate that says “Unix”

http://www.unix.org/license-plate.html
SmittyK on July 09 at 10:49 a.m.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e257/redsoxunixgeek/iPhonePimp007.jpg
Kerri on July 09 at 10:50 a.m.
Trying again so it makes more sense … Main Street is an obvious promotion of my long time Press column. Don’t know if that makes my car tax deductible. :)
Mayor Clay Larkin has GADBOUT and Councilwoman Linda Wilhelm has LINDALU.
Cindy_H on July 09 at 10:55 a.m.
The last place I’d want to be recognized is in my car. Not that my driving habits have anything to do with it ;-)
fortboise on July 09 at 11:03 a.m.
I used to have the plate GORJUS for the minivan I drove to go sailing in the Columbia River Gorge.

I always loved to see the anticipation (and then disappointment) when some young bucks would overtake me on the way on I-84.
sibulsky on July 09 at 11:07 a.m.
my favorite is very geek…on a Datsun “Z” car was the plate “ALT 90”

(Open a new document…press and hold the RIGHT HAND Alt key and type 90 on the keypad)
Digger on July 09 at 11:46 a.m.
When I worked as an apprentice funeral director it was my Idaho license number - MRT1013 (Mortician Resident Trainee)

Nothing customized now but have thought of getting “RADOSHK” for my business…
Digger on July 09 at 11:46 a.m.
Interestingly enough, DIGGER was taken last time I checked the online database…
pthompson on July 09 at 1:52 p.m.
Isnt a Hoe a garden implement, the true spelling would be HO,
Bent on July 09 at 4:56 p.m.
Ummm, steve, I tried that and nothing happened…
Escapee on July 09 at 7:43 p.m.
Maybe Mr. Junge is a master gardener. Hoe, hoe, hoe.

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