Anti Vanity Plate
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Forum names are one thing, but not something I would want on a car as a license plate. Not would I want "black 02" on mine for the same reason. One plate I do regret not taking was "C5Z" when it was available.
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Racer
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Lol, such a Debbie Downer.
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Fwiw .....I kinda like your idea to kind of make your plate blend in, but it sound like lots of people beat you to the kind of abstract stuff. The automakers do this on their commercials, not sure if there is another reason they photoshop them all one color.
I'm no fan of vanity plates so your idea is as good as any and IMO better than most.
I'm no fan of vanity plates so your idea is as good as any and IMO better than most.
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Not necessarily. Didn't sound to me like his idea of using XXXXVXX as expressed in his original post meant all that much to him (perhaps I read him differently than you did). To quote him, it was "to say absolutely nothing with just a bunch of X's and one V." I took that as something meaningless to him.
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yes. That's where I was coming from. A design. XXXXVXX. it's nothing but a shape. A series of shapes.
My opinion, is, personalized plates are often really annoying. Telling the world what you need it to know, when really, nobody cares. Nobody cares that you went to USC and your an ESQ, or an MD, or a skier, or a mom. So, yes. I would be using the license plate simply to display a design. Something that is open to interpretation.
I know...Corvette owners tend to be middle aged, white, predictable, whatever.
My opinion, is, personalized plates are often really annoying. Telling the world what you need it to know, when really, nobody cares. Nobody cares that you went to USC and your an ESQ, or an MD, or a skier, or a mom. So, yes. I would be using the license plate simply to display a design. Something that is open to interpretation.
I know...Corvette owners tend to be middle aged, white, predictable, whatever.
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If nothing else, the shape of those letters would be the very meaning you seem to judge as being missing, and then deem it a waste of money. Yet you drink to my pointlessness?
Is there an emoticon for someone who talks out of both sides of their mouth?
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I'm not talking out of both sides of my mouth, and I don't get where you think that. What I said was that I don't get why you would do it but if that's what you want to do (and it would seem to me to be a waste of money IMO), then by all means do whatever you want, it's your money. But again IMO a bunch of X's (with a V thrown in for good measure) is a meaningless "display of shapes" and I still haven't seen you explain what that "display of shapes" means to you (if you can).
1. To offer a toast to someone you say is wasting his money seemed peculiar.
2. To get a license plate that says nothing, while producing a shape that makes people curious, or appears as a visual display of crossing or intersecting lines would in fact the point. Is it art? Is there a meaning? Is it Roman numerals? Does it elude to something symbolic? Is it a knock against Vanity Plates? It's entirely open to interpretation.
OK. I think I'm done with this.
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I would think an "anti-vanity" plate would just be a randomly assigned by the DMV plate. And there seem to be plenty of those rolling around out there.
So vanity plates -- to me-- get annoying when they do not say something obvious... I'm annoyed by a plate that I come up behind and can't figure out what the driver intended. And as a teacher and professor, I'm pretty good at interpretations. OU812 makes me smile, as it's obvious and a little funny (and a decent VanHalen album) But if I came up behind a bunch of X's and a V, I'd be perplexed as to what was intended.
Then again my personalized "deepblu" to non corvette folks might just be a reference to the color of the car. To corvette people it might make the implied "sea" that most often follows the beginning of the phrase a reference to the "C" designation for each generation of corvette. Then again maybe I'm reaching, too. Maybe people who pull up behind my car wonder what I'm getting at or why I'm stating the obvious. Or maybe they don't give a crap. I would have prefered "GOBLUE" being a U of M grad. or "BLUBYU" which I think is clever but they were taken.
Like the plate name suggests -- "personalized" plates are a matter of personal preference. If someone wants a nickname, a car reference, or anything else -- obvious or not, its a matter of personal choice. And not a particularly expensive one: $35 hardly seems prohibitive. Spend the money you earned the way you wish. With X's or not.
By the way -- the C5 forum seems a whole lot chippier than the C3 forum. To each their own -- including the chippiness I guess.
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I didn't back peddle (and I didn't back paddle either ). Since you seem to be looking for an explanation, I edited it because what I originally posted to describe you was censored by CF and showed ******* instead of the word I wrote (to those who would be looking at the post but not logged in, to see what I originally posted without censorship, one had to be logged in). I wanted anyone viewing my post (logged in or not) to be able to read it in its entirety and have a sense of what I was trying to say about you, thus the edit to what it says now. Satisfied? 
). Since you seem to be looking for an explanation, I edited it because what I originally posted to describe you was censored by CF and showed ******* instead of the word I wrote (to those who would be looking at the post but not logged in, to see what I originally posted without censorship, one had to be logged in). I wanted anyone viewing my post (logged in or not) to be able to read it in its entirety and have a sense of what I was trying to say about you, thus the edit to what it says now. Satisfied?
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