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Old Feb 25, 2003 | 04:12 PM
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>>KPOXA (Mini, in Russian)
>>MJOLNIR (Thor's Hammer)
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>>Which do you guys think is better?


My vote is for Mjollnir, though you might get a PA twin out of it. I have named computer hard drives that for years, and used to want it on my plate, but had forgotten about it! And as for me, I'm a Blacksmith! Did you know tha tthe reason the haft on the hammer was so short was because when the smiths were forging it, Loki turned himself into a gnat and pestered them until they screwed up and broke it. Or something like that. ANyway, I digress. My last vanity plate was VERUCKT (7 letter limit)


 
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Old Feb 25, 2003 | 05:58 PM
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>>>>If you really need me to, I can go home and bring back research materials and post refrences for you to look up, let me know, more than happy to educate.
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>>Gee you are pretty smart!!!.....And just think I bought this guy a beer and he chugged it just like a college kid.
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Old Feb 25, 2003 | 06:14 PM
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>>I can only read English so you could just as well say "Mother" in Russian on your plate. I called the TxDOT office and had a girl there look up a bunch for me. She looked up MINI ME, MY MINI, A MINI, B MINI, BE MINI, and all were taken, then finially after several more she said that GO MINI was not taken so I got that plate!
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>>Ok My point... keep checking for MINI plates in English so people know what you are proud of and want to tell them!


Actually mother in Russian is MA MA. :smile:
 
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Old Feb 25, 2003 | 07:51 PM
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Both are cool, but like others mentioned, almost no one is going to understand what it means. And, yeah, personalized plates are for your interests, etc., but the reason you put it on your license plate is so that others can read it, so why put something on there that no one can understand. Unless you find it fun to frustrate people like me who can't figure some plates out and sit there for minutes trying to think about what it might mean, hahaha.

just my 2 cents. :smile:
 
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Old Feb 26, 2003 | 10:54 AM
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I agree. Unless, of course, you're using the MINI only to drive to Comic Book Conventions or Yes concerts.
 
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Old Feb 27, 2003 | 06:28 PM
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OK...MINMAMA
 
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 03:58 AM
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Hmmmm.

KPOXA (Mini, in Russian) makes me think of Kapok (a fiberous material used to fill life vests) and epoxy. The unschooled might think you're a rabid boater or something.

MJOLNIR (Thor's Hammer) will have people's tongues twisting around themselves (unless they are of Norse extraction). You'll get the thumbs up from all the Asatru folks you meet.

Hmmmm.

 
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Old Feb 28, 2003 | 08:41 PM
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My vote is for the Russian, but then I am partial to obscure personnalize plates. When I was growing up my father had IXTHUS (Greek for fish and the symbol of the early church) and SHALOM (Hebrew for hello/ goodby/ I love you/ peace).
I am going to get a plate based off of the Cooper part of the name BBLOFUN (coopers are barrel makers ) and I was talked out of doing MFLRCPR (Mayflower Cooper, since my progenitor was the cooper of the Mayflower) for being too obscure.
Cheers
 
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 07:14 AM
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Mine is in German and reads: ZU KÜHL

Is it close enough for common folk to understand...dunno...don't care. Some guess correctly...that's the way I meant it to be. My car, my plate, my message.
 
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Old Mar 1, 2003 | 07:37 AM
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I like Mjolnir. Or you could do Valhalla. You people should know these words, haven't you ever listened to Led Zeppelin's "Land of the Ice & Snow"!? SHEESH!
 
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