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2TUF4U? Readers Spy More Clever Vanity Plates -- and Some Riddles -- on the Road.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Clever and curious personalized license plates spotted by readers continue to roll in to "John Kelly's Washington" world headquarters. Call it highway haiku. Here's the latest crop:

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Oakton's Steve Johnson said the cleverest vanity plate he saw was in Los Angeles. It was on a Toyota MR2 and read RU MRS2.

Perhaps the owner of that car should meet the owner of the Mercedes convertible Fairfax's Ray Young spotted, also in California. Its plate said EX NUN.

Meg Moore of Alexandria said she was confused by the plate MEANDMY until she noticed that it was affixed to a Dodge Shadow. "Guess I'm showing my age that I recognized the song, but I still smile whenever I think of it," Meg wrote.

Among Dennis Durham's favorite car-plate combinations were a blue Plymouth Horizon adorned with BEYOND and one of those French-made Renault Le Cars with LE TAG.

Lane Martin's favorite car-plate combo was WWIACE. "My first thought was 'Snoopy,' then 'Huh?' " wrote Lane, of Winchester. "I looked closer and had to laugh. The plate was on a Chrysler -- a red LeBaron, of course."

Bob Adams of Sterling got a kick out of a car he stopped behind in Tysons Corner. "It was a huge, all-white Ford Crown Victoria station wagon and its Virginia plate read MOBYVIC."

I wonder if the owner had to clean the krill.

How about a little shattered marriage humor? Sharon Farley was passed on Interstate 95 by a Jaguar with the plate WASHIS.

Julian Blackwood saw that one too, in McLean, where he's done an automotive anthropological study. "When taken together, a set of vanity plates may characterize a neighborhood," he wrote. Among plates Julian has seen on luxury cars in McLean are ISU4U, ISU4U2, HEOWES and DOCSIS.

"We asked the young man getting into that last one what kind of doctor he was. 'No doctor,' he said. 'I wrote the code.' "

For the non-geeks among you, DOCSIS is a standard for sending data over a cable system.


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