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in Virginia they have a plethora of special commemorative or cause-related decorative license plates ranging from your typical 9/11 memorial or patriotic designs to a Parrotheads plate. no, really. i'm a bit miffed that there's no Deadhead plate, but let's move on. the plate i'm thinking of getting is the Shenandoah National Park Association plate which features a rather befuddled-looking bear (i love bears), and to go the full monty i thought i'd get a custom number. the plate only has room for 6 characters because the bear takes up so much room. the ones that i've come up so far include:

"350125"--after the intro to "Warsaw" by Joy Division
"0 HECK"--after the 'oh h*ck" memes using Doggolingo
"SHUGAZ"--"shoegaze," obviously

what do you think? i'm going to create a poll. other suggestions welcome. winner(s) may not actually end up on the plate.

That plate looks great!

I suggest: DUBBY1

ICU812

or if you drive a subaru..

urabus

the first time i saw the plate i was all "SOMEDAY YOU WILL BE MINE." it really is one of the most charming special plates i've ever seen. they say you can get them with the handicapped symbol. but it's not clear whether that costs you a character space, it squeezes in at the edge, they put it on Yogi's chest, or what.

I drive an old Toyota. it's really strange to think that something from 2004 is "old" now.

ICU812 is one of the obvious ones that's no doubt taken, and is too Van Halen-adjacent for me. to get "0 HECK" i have to use the numeral zero because the version with the letter O is taken.

an old neighbor of mine ( and possibly also Chanks) had the plate "imdead". Probably my favorite vanity plate i've seen.

i wouldn't choose this for a plate, but it's 6 characters: i was driving somewhere in central Virginia--i can't recall exactly where--and saw possibly the best street name for a road onto someone's property i've ever seen...Goa Way.

nobody's voting in the fucking poll. how am i supposed to generate useful data from this? j/k

If I saw a licence plate reading SHUGAZ, I'd 100% read it as a louche pronunciation of "sugars", like something a drunken Southern aunt would call you.

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:If I saw a licence plate reading SHUGAZ, I'd 100% read it as a louche pronunciation of "sugars", like something a drunken Southern aunt would call you.

This.

I vote for "Fiend", two meanings for the price of one.

good point.

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:If I saw a licence plate reading SHUGAZ, I'd 100% read it as a louche pronunciation of "sugars", like something a drunken Southern aunt would call you.

I thought the same thing. I wouldn't get shoegaze out of that.

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:If I saw a licence plate reading SHUGAZ, I'd 100% read it as a louche pronunciation of "sugars", like something a drunken Southern aunt would call you.

^^^

maybe a pairing of the shugaz plate and an (in)appropriate bumper sticker that gives you a hint? "my other ride is a staytrem"? "I brake for souvlaki"?

clearly FUGAZI would be a better choice

probably taken as it is code that exists outside the hardcore band