Vanity Plates

[68-eldo]

Re: Vanity Plates

A coworker bought a Volkswagen Rabbit when they first came out. He got the plate “WABBIT” and above the plate he put the letters “KWAZY”.

In Colorado I saw a Corvette with the plate “55HAHA”. He was very carefully following the speed limit.

Spotted recently on H1; “H8MYEX”. That must have been a bitter divorce.

My plate just cuts down on the number of people that ask what kind of car it is.

[pzarquon]

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Or she was a disco queen in the 80s

Turns out this random snap of a license plate, which I had posted to my Flickr account, triggered one of those "small world" moments involving a couple of our fellow HT users...

[craigwatanabe]

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I saw this on a car today in Hilo: NO B2BZ or No be too busy. I told my wife he should have just put LAZY on his vanity plate.

[scrivener]

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I don't think that would work. The "U" symbol usually means union, so your plate's reading would be

The union of 2B and not 2B

or

2B union not 2B

or

2B and not 2B

Wait a minute. You're correct until that last step. Union means "or." Intersection means "and."

If set A = {abcde} and set B = {defgh},
Then AUB includes any item appearing in at least one set, so AUB = {abcdefgh}. In other words AUB means A or B. So 2BU-2B would be "to be OR not to be."

Boy, you Iolani grads. You learn it all for the test and then nothing sticks after graduation!

[christa]

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MAN i used to *always* grab a shot of them when i see them but i've been seriously slacking lately.

just grabbed this last week. first one in over two years though:
guess who!

[LikaNui]

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Seen a couple of days ago:

EH CUZ

[glossyp]

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She must like to go skiing ...............

Or she was a disco queen in the 80s

[oceanpacific]

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Recently spotted:

She must like to go skiing ...............

[pzarquon]

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Recently spotted:

[Eric]

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What about the U for "or" instead?

I don't think that would work. The "U" symbol usually means union, so your plate's reading would be

The union of 2B and not 2B

or

2B union not 2B

or

2B and not 2B

[scrivener]

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Groan. Way too esoteric! I only know because I'm a fellow math geek.

It's too bad you can't use a tilde, because if I could use 2BV~2B, I'd do it in a second.

I like it because it combines the two disciplines I primarily teach. And I like it because not ANYbody would get it. But I do want people to get it, or else what's the point?

The second one was supposed also to say "to be or not to be."

What about the U for "or" instead?

[Eric]

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I've been thinking of getting a vanity plate sometime in the next couple of years, but I wonder if my favorite idea is too esoteric. What would you think if you saw this on the car ahead of you?

2BV-2B

Groan. Way too esoteric! I only know because I'm a fellow math geek.

"( TWO B ) OR ( NOT TWO B )"

or, less esoteric:
2BR-2B

Two bedrooms, two baths. Definitely a realtor's plate.

[ploal5333]

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2BV-2B

or, less esoteric:
2BR-2B

I agree with glossyp the second one makes me think of real estate, but what does the first one mean? I have no clue.

[glossyp]

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I've been thinking of getting a vanity plate sometime in the next couple of years, but I wonder if my favorite idea is too esoteric. What would you think if you saw this on the car ahead of you?

2BV-2B

or, less esoteric:
2BR-2B

Well, the second one would make me think you are a real estate agent or describing your living circumstances for some reason (there's a thought), so I vote for the first one.

[scrivener]

Re: Vanity Plates

I've been thinking of getting a vanity plate sometime in the next couple of years, but I wonder if my favorite idea is too esoteric. What would you think if you saw this on the car ahead of you?

2BV-2B

or, less esoteric:
2BR-2B