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Old 07-07-2004 | 08:40 PM
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*UPDATE* Help on personalized plates

I am having a hard time choosing what I should get for the plates on my BRG/W MCS. I was originally going with 2MINI4U but the girls at work thought that may be saying the wrong thing, if you know what I mean. So I thought for a while and came up with ITS2BIG. Now I am having a hard time choosing. So here is yet another personalized plate thread. Please help me choose: 2MINI4U or ITS2BIG.

Thanks in advance

***UPDATE***

Well I decided to go with ITSOBIG, so on Monday of last week I went to the courthouse and told them what I wanted. On Friday I got a letter stating:

"The Division may refuse to issue any combination of letters and/or numbers that may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency or which are misleading. Therefore, your plate choice is denied.”

Any advice on what I should do? Should I just give up and try something different, or should I try to convince them to let me have this plate?
 

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Old 07-07-2004 | 09:12 PM
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Maybe ITSOBIG or since you're in Montana - EWEHALR. Go with 2MINI4U - enjoy!
 
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Old 07-07-2004 | 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by MINI-IZED
I am having a hard time choosing what I should get for the plates on my BRG/W MCS. I was originally going with 2MINI4U but the girls at work thought that may be saying the wrong thing, if you know what I mean. So I thought for a while and came up with ITS2BIG. Now I am having a hard time choosing. So here is yet another personalized plate thread. Please help me choose: 2MINI4U or ITS2BIG.

Thanks in advance
How about -
BIGNOT
or
MINISIZ
or
2K4MINI
or
MINILUV
or
MINI4ME
or
HISMINI

 
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Old 07-07-2004 | 09:53 PM
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Just a little unsolicited input, but years ago Jerry Seinfeld said, "There's no such thing as a cool vanity plate."


He was right, by the way.
 
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Old 07-07-2004 | 11:27 PM
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How about jsut BRG MCS?
 
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Old 07-08-2004 | 05:06 AM
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Originally Posted by stovepipejones
Just a little unsolicited input, but years ago Jerry Seinfeld said, "There's no such thing as a cool vanity plate."


He was right, by the way.


Although I am guilty on my Jeep
 
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Old 07-08-2004 | 06:49 AM
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Of the 2, I like ITS2BIG - I have to agree with the gals (me being a gal myself) that 2MINI4U would make me think of something else.

I just ordered mine. BLDY HEL I wanted BLOODY L , but it was taken.

I also liked:
EAR 2 EAR
HAVNFUN
LV2CRNR

I had a whole list of them at one time. I have to agree with a previous post, that normally I do not like vanity plates, but for the MINI, it just seems to go. Even though I am refusing to put a plate on the front of my car...
 
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Old 07-08-2004 | 07:23 AM
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If you are going with the big/small thing,

what about SYZ MTRS SZ MATRS
 
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Old 07-09-2004 | 09:51 AM
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I like PKT RKT but don't get it as I'll be eventually inheriting a condo in Big Sky and when I do, I'll move there with the real PKT RKT and then I would have to make you move to another state........

My sincere condolences in your acquisition of a BRG job...welcome to the ugly and slow club......
 
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Old 07-09-2004 | 02:53 PM
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Thanks guys. It was hard enough with just the two.

>since you're in Montana – EWEHALR
VERY funny

BRG MCS is another interesting choice too.
I am still looking for votes on 2MINI4U or ITS2BIG.

Thanks
 
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Old 07-13-2004 | 11:35 AM
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Well this weekend I got to thinking and ITSOBIG also sounds good. So from my top two to my top three: 2MINI4YOU, ITS2BIG, or ITSOBIG. Please help me choose.
 
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Old 07-13-2004 | 01:14 PM
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Plate mania!

Here in Virginia you can reserve your plates 90 days in advance over the internet, and you can check for availability online. Here are some available possibilities for my purple MCS:

MINI MCS
MINI MAN
MINI FAN
SIP TEA
CRUMPET
COOPERR
SUPER MC
05 MINI
05 MCS
PRPL MCS
GRAPE MC
MCS HAZE
BLUE LOO
BRIT MCS
NO ROVER
NO LOTUS
NO GT-40
LONDON T
LONDON S
TEA MILK
HIGH TEA
ANGUISH
SLOTH
PETROL S

Do any of these stand out?
 
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Old 07-14-2004 | 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by MINI-IZED
Well this weekend I got to thinking and ITSOBIG also sounds good. So from my top two to my top three: 2MINI4YOU, ITS2BIG, or ITSOBIG. Please help me choose.
2BIG4U
ITSAMINI
BIGENUF
SIZE IT
XXXXXL
 
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Old 07-15-2004 | 04:20 PM
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I also wanted one related to size, and I get many smiles and comments about mine, despite what Jerry Seinfeld says : "EZ2PRK"
 
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Old 07-16-2004 | 07:32 AM
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In California you can order plates ahead of time as well. Just ordered our plates yesterday: 2MINIAX
 
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Old 07-16-2004 | 02:39 PM
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I also orderd ahead of time from California DMV, quite a long time ago to and still no plates come to think of it... But anyway, I went with a play on size as well...



ACTL SZ
 
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Old 07-16-2004 | 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeDentist
Here in Virginia you can reserve your plates 90 days in advance over the internet, and you can check for availability online. Here are some available possibilities for my purple MCS:

SLOTH
This one makes it look slow. Do you really want that?
 
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Old 07-16-2004 | 03:47 PM
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My Favorite Alpha Numeric...

H8W8N4U

So true...in the twisties!

Yfoiler
 

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Old 07-17-2004 | 03:13 PM
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I love reading vanity plates. But not on mine. Don't want people recalling "there goes that #%&% *#@ again!".

I like to be as invisible as possible to motor appropriately, it's why I went with PS/B.

Just MHO.

regards,
Red
 
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Old 07-18-2004 | 06:31 AM
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I think if you live in a small town and have a purple MC/S, people will recognize you anyway.
 
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Old 07-18-2004 | 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by stovepipejones
Just a little unsolicited input, but years ago Jerry Seinfeld said, "There's no such thing as a cool vanity plate."


He was right, by the way.
Mine is 3.141592, the first seven digits of pi, the Greek symbol for education (and a truly cool mathematical number). My kids (9 and 11) now know pi to eleven digits. They think it is a strange license plate, but they know that I have fun with math. And if it rubs off, maybe one day they'll be supporting me!
 
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Old 07-18-2004 | 10:19 AM
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The coolest vanity plates (and most expensive ones in the universe BTW) are the British ones. From the dawn of time they have been in sequence so ANYTHING with one, two or three digits is absolutely worth a fortune.

The government finally got wise to the cool combinations and now auctions them off......so no personalized ones but if you can find a combination that floats your boat in this long series of alphanumeric plates, more power to you. You get to buy it from the government or if not, you can go to the private market that exists.....and once you own it, it is yours for life.....
 
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Old 08-03-2004 | 04:45 PM
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I thought that updating my first post would bump this thread.... so I will do it now. bump bump
 
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Old 08-04-2004 | 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by MINI-IZED
Any advice on what I should do? Should I just give up and try something different, or should I try to convince them to let me have this plate?
I doubt you'll be able to win if you fight them on it. Try for something else...
 
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Old 11-17-2004 | 07:20 PM
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The Seinfeld post got me thinking that "MULVA" would have been a hell of a plate, but believe it or not, in CA, it is not available. Didn't even bother with *** MAN.

I wasn't for a personalized plate, but when Paddy O was available, why the hell not.

HELL S

would be cool for a Cooper S of course.
 


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