Showing posts with label Personalised Plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personalised Plates. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2009

On the Road... the wind in the sand in my hair...

I've been doing a lot of travelling recently.
In the last two weeks I can cross off Auckland's North Shore, Katikati, Waihi and Raglan as places I have now visited and escaped from relatively unscathed!

Personalised plates: they're pretty popular nowadays, and people are getting a bit reckless with them, in my opinion. Obviously there aren't as many options as their used to be unless we start inventing new, retarded words to put on them.
I propose that personalised plates, like the text messages of the semi-illiterate, are a kind of linguistic rorschach test. I will give you an example.
I witnessed the following personalised plate a few weeks back:
NDLGNS
I take it as a challenge to my manliness to try and figure out what these plates mean, so I put my brain to work. I decided that the car was owned by an IT company, and the plate said NeeD LoGiNs?
But I was wrong. And my wrongness incensed me, because my answer - to me at least - made perfect sense. So I sought a second opinion.
Having written the offending license plate down, I showed it to Miss D. She pondered for a while and came up with NeeDLeGuNS, which would be a perfect plate for someone who loved Halo too much.
What did the plate really say? iNDuLGeNSe (sic)
Obviously!