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9 Responses to “Vote for Indiana’s non-God License Plate”

1. 1 dr. b. Apr 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 pm

   Is it me or do they all look like they have penises with stars shooting out of them?

2. 2 Lauren Apr 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 pm

   Yes. Yes, they do.

3. 3 Dr. Brazen Hussy Apr 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm

   It won’t take my vote - keeps giving me a system error. Must be my liberal zip code.

4. 4 Chuck Apr 3rd, 2007 at 1:32 am

   Oh Jesus. The blue thing? The all-ass blue? Oh God, Mary Please!

   I guess the one in the upper right is OK?

   The real question is: Are they changing the way license plates are numbered? There used to be a 2-digit “prefix” followed by one or two letters (one county has A-Z and AA plates), and then four digits at the end.

   This shows them bracketed three-and-three, no letter in the middle. That can’t be enough plates for everyone, can it?

5. 5 skippy Apr 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 am

   hey lauren,

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6. 6 norbizness Apr 3rd, 2007 at 9:05 am

   Wow, it looks like a tribute to the space program of the 1930s or something.

7. 7 Anne Apr 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm

   Chuck, they’re all blue.

   I voted for the bluest of them all, though, because it was the cleanest.

   Who designs these, anyway?

   Also, in response to your question about the numbers and letters:

   Our current plates have our two-digit country code, followed by one (or two) letters and three or four numbers. The new plates have the same, only they’ve moved the county to the top.

   I’m not that great in math, but I think there’s enough combinations possible (six characters, mix of numbers and letters) to accommodate the driving population.

8. 8 Lainey-Paney Apr 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm

   You’re too nice….

   Because me—I would have done this:
   1) My husband has a big truck. Big bumper, big hitch, big everything. I would have driven STRAIGHT out of the driveway, knocking the SH*T out of the tail end 2 feet of that car, and more than likely—knocked it to the middle of the road. But whatever….at least MY path would be wide open.
   or……
   2) I would have egged the car.

   but you…you’re too nice.

9. 9 cecilbeeber Apr 3rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm

   We had this discussion at work today. I said that it wasn’t picking the best, it was voting for the least worst, and a colleague scoffed at me, until he saw them. I thought the upper left was the lesser of the evils, but the upper right is the second less worst.

   If my statistics hold me in good stead, the new numbering method should give us approximately 17.5 million different plate numbers. (26 letters x 26 letters x 26 letters,x 10 numbers x 10 numbers x 10 numbers). I don’t think the state population is that large.

   I suspect the 49 A 9999 format was insufficient due to population inequalities around the state. Marion County and Lake County have taken over the last of the two digit numbers (93-99) as overflow, once they got past 45 Z 9999, leaving Allen and other recently growing counties (Hamilton, etc) with the 2 AZ 9999 option, while more rural counties will never have enough people utilize all of their numbers, causing number waste. So I think we’ll end up with more “usable” license plate combinations. Still, I’m going to miss the driving game of “Wait - which county is 64?”

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