Do You Own An Offensive Number Plate?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11625871/Banned-number-plates-revealed-VA61ANA-banned-but-PEN15-allowed.html

[gness]

I don't, but I have a friend whose number plate reads the user name of someone here I'm not over fond of....

When she pulls up on the drive I hang a tea towel over the number plate...x

[sherrardk]

I used to work for the DVLA and one of my roles was issuing registration number to dealers. Back then they used to cross out all the registration numbers 1 -21 and any that spelt any sort of word.

[lankeela]

A friend of mine had 4 KOK which had a screw (pun intended) at the top of the 4 making it look like 4' KOK.

[maggiebee]

Suppose it depends what you mean by offensive. Don't go around reading number plates so wouldn't notice.

[Quoi]

Mine might be offensive to latvians.

[paddywak]

Years ago I remember seeing a yellow E-Type Jag with the plate FU 2 on it.It turned out to belong to Fiona Richmond a model,who's boy friend Paul Raymonds the Soho strip club owner had bought it for her.

[Baldric]

That was Paul Richmond

[tonyav]

Mine are offensive to Birmingham City FC fans ( I hope ).

[paddywak]

you're right baldrick I knew it was something like that

[stuey]

I could understand young kids who are in the puerile-behind-the-bike-shed-bathroom humour stage of growth, which we have all gone through, thinking that these offensive license plates are the cat's pajamas (Oops: showing my age:)); however, so called mature adults...

[tonyav]

They fetch good prices though, stuey.

[Peter Pedant]

// Suppose it depends what you mean by offensive. Don't go around reading number plates so wouldn't notice.//

I habitually read number plates to see if they are pronounceable
post codes too - makes them much more memorable

PENi5 was the number plate of the hired R-R that Linda Lovelace used to publicise her famous but completely pornographic and reprehensible film Deep Throat in 1973 [ disreputable creature ! ]