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Hello, ladies and gentleman. I suppose it’s time for me to take it easy for awhile and enter the garden for the first time ever. It has to be done.Welcome, @Anonymous. Bring Heineken and whiskey kplzthnx
Had to google that one
Kthxbye
I had a friend that had that as his license plate
People who have vanity plates, especially stupid ones, just make themselves targets for police.
How you figure
They're easier to run than random plates are for one. Anything you do that makes you stick out of the crowd attracts attention from everyone, not just random drivers.
During testing for becoming a police officer, your memory is tested. The test is being given random plate numbers and having to recall them later in the conversation. The police aren't going to call in your plate because it's a vanity plate, they're going to call in your plate if you're doing something you're not supposed to. They don't even look at your plate unless they happen to be stuck behind you or they have a reason to.
There was a study on it some years back that said otherwise. Red paint, vanity plates, and bumper stickers all were things that got you pulled over more. Read that article when I was like 17 and it stuck with me. It makes sense even if it's just something as simple as a cop getting behind you to read your bumper stickers making you freak out and break some traffic law.
Also police randomly run plates for no reason all the time, don't know where you got the idea they only run them if you're doing something you're not supposed to.
I would also wonder if geographic location matters.
In Texas, I would've never gotten a vanity plate because they're so freakin' expensive (you also didn't see them as often).
Here, you can't swing a cat without hitting a vanity plate because they're really cheap and a whole lotta cars have them.
(personal favorite is FUTREXYF, which lives in my neighborhood.. I park next to BIRDSPY or CORTEX most days... Old work had DR MOUSE and NEURON)That probably does have something to do with it. They weren't very common here. What was more common is people like myself refusing to have that hideous green plate so we paid extra for the Columbine memorial plates.
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I think my Columbine plates were like $50?
Now "swingin' a cat" is one for the books! That expression is older than I am! Always thought you were a young pup but ...? 
@Remedios wrote:
What Kilroy meant is no app talk in this thread.
He's normally a bit more eloquent when his mouth is not full of organ containing conjugated bilirubin.
Technically, liver is a gland, but glands are organs in wider sense, so whatever I said.
Well, yeah, if you say it like that it's gonna sound gross.
Just another tray on the Bovine Buffet.
@kilroy8 wrote:They should have Coors beer plates there.
Going back in time ... we would import Coors beer to our state (not in the distribution circle) by someone driving there and loading their car up. In the military we seemed to get it and no one could explain it (was over seas at the time). ?!
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@Adkins wrote:I'm still bored. Y'all need to entertain me.
Per previous Garden Discussion: SirPatStew w/ hair (screen testing/whatever for not-StarWars)
That looks more weird than Riker beardless...
You take that back!! 🧔
Nope! Riker was hotness with a beard!!!
Take that back is in Roker should NEVER be beardless, and the words should not be written. 😀
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Wow, it's extremely difficult to keep up with the amount of posts in this thread. I'm bored here at work and just read through 35 pages of stuff since last night.
Also, thanks for all the warm welcomes to the garden! It's a bit hard not to scroll through the approvals thread, but I'll survive, haha.Welcome!
It doesn't bother me to go through the approvals, as I have a goal in mind and I'm set on the goal. If I start to itch I just remember how bad I want the AR and that usually calms me down
It's FOTM cards that get me. When there's a rash of approvals for a card I don't have, it tempts me to jump on the train.
Just don't fall under it! 
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@Meanmchine wrote:
@simplynoir wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Hello, ladies and gentleman. I suppose it’s time for me to take it easy for awhile and enter the garden for the first time ever. It has to be done.Welcome, @Anonymous. Bring Heineken and whiskey kplzthnx
Had to google that one
Kthxbye
I had a friend that had that as his license plate
People who have vanity plates, especially stupid ones, just make themselves targets for police.
How you figure
They're easier to run than random plates are for one. Anything you do that makes you stick out of the crowd attracts attention from everyone, not just random drivers.
During testing for becoming a police officer, your memory is tested. The test is being given random plate numbers and having to recall them later in the conversation. The police aren't going to call in your plate because it's a vanity plate, they're going to call in your plate if you're doing something you're not supposed to. They don't even look at your plate unless they happen to be stuck behind you or they have a reason to.
There was a study on it some years back that said otherwise. Red paint, vanity plates, and bumper stickers all were things that got you pulled over more. Read that article when I was like 17 and it stuck with me. It makes sense even if it's just something as simple as a cop getting behind you to read your bumper stickers making you freak out and break some traffic law.
Also police randomly run plates for no reason all the time, don't know where you got the idea they only run them if you're doing something you're not supposed to.
I would also wonder if geographic location matters.
In Texas, I would've never gotten a vanity plate because they're so freakin' expensive (you also didn't see them as often).
Here, you can't swing a cat without hitting a vanity plate because they're really cheap and a whole lotta cars have them.
(personal favorite is FUTREXYF, which lives in my neighborhood.. I park next to BIRDSPY or CORTEX most days... Old work had DR MOUSE and NEURON)That probably does have something to do with it. They weren't very common here. What was more common is people like myself refusing to have that hideous green plate so we paid extra for the Columbine memorial plates.
vs
I think my Columbine plates were like $50?
Right as I left Texas, they got cartoony looking plates, so I'm glad I missed that. I still have my panoramic old plates (never turned them in, didn't know I was supposed to!), so I kind of want to find a project to do with them, but I never do.
I've seen people from other states put their NC tags on the back and keep their other state on the front, which I feel like shouldn't be legal (TX had front & rear, NC only has rear).
I pay $30 for my personalized plates here.
@calyx wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Mv350 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Meanmchine wrote:
@simplynoir wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Hello, ladies and gentleman. I suppose it’s time for me to take it easy for awhile and enter the garden for the first time ever. It has to be done.Welcome, @Anonymous. Bring Heineken and whiskey kplzthnx
Had to google that one
Kthxbye
I had a friend that had that as his license plate
People who have vanity plates, especially stupid ones, just make themselves targets for police.
How you figure
They're easier to run than random plates are for one. Anything you do that makes you stick out of the crowd attracts attention from everyone, not just random drivers.
During testing for becoming a police officer, your memory is tested. The test is being given random plate numbers and having to recall them later in the conversation. The police aren't going to call in your plate because it's a vanity plate, they're going to call in your plate if you're doing something you're not supposed to. They don't even look at your plate unless they happen to be stuck behind you or they have a reason to.
There was a study on it some years back that said otherwise. Red paint, vanity plates, and bumper stickers all were things that got you pulled over more. Read that article when I was like 17 and it stuck with me. It makes sense even if it's just something as simple as a cop getting behind you to read your bumper stickers making you freak out and break some traffic law.
Also police randomly run plates for no reason all the time, don't know where you got the idea they only run them if you're doing something you're not supposed to.
I would also wonder if geographic location matters.
In Texas, I would've never gotten a vanity plate because they're so freakin' expensive (you also didn't see them as often).
Here, you can't swing a cat without hitting a vanity plate because they're really cheap and a whole lotta cars have them.
(personal favorite is FUTREXYF, which lives in my neighborhood.. I park next to BIRDSPY or CORTEX most days... Old work had DR MOUSE and NEURON)
+1 on the expensive TX vanity plates. I considered ordering one for a few days, but decided I couldn't stomach the $595 price of the plate I wanted. I think it was good for three years, maybe four?