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Aug 13, 2019 15:11:55   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Someone posted that CA rejected his request for a vanity plate - UKE 52MG - saying it was profanity. What am I missing?

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Aug 13, 2019 15:27:41   #
RichinSeattle
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone posted that CA rejected his request for a vanity plate - UKE 52MG - saying it was profanity. What am I missing?




I wonder how it's pronounced?!!

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Aug 13, 2019 15:37:30   #
lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone posted that CA rejected his request for a vanity plate - UKE 52MG - saying it was profanity. What am I missing?


What was the source of this story. Sounds like a hoax to me. The people at the CA DMV are not that sophisticated about censoring plates unless they are obviously obscene. I've seen some pretty raw ones on cars.

Is the one up there for a 1952 MG car? I have no idea what an objection might be. Someone over thinking it.

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Aug 13, 2019 15:50:51   #
ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca
 
I Googled UKE 52 MG --
Closest I came up with was a series of photos of "UKULELE's

"IF" I could play one my Wife assures me it would only be in the ATTIC !!

Hope this is helps

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Aug 13, 2019 16:09:39   #
14kphotog Loc: Marietta, Ohio
 
I go with the guy's initials and he has a 1952 MG. Not too obscene unless he says a lot of obscene things because the 1952s were very hard to keep running ????????????

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Aug 13, 2019 16:11:32   #
Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone posted that CA rejected his request for a vanity plate - UKE 52MG - saying it was profanity. What am I missing?


Thinking the DMV thinks it might somehow be a gang name

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Aug 13, 2019 16:13:51   #
napabob Loc: Napa CA
 
ken_stern wrote:
I Googled UKE 52 MG --
Closest I came up with was a series of photos of "UKULELE's

"IF" I could play one my Wife assures me it would only be in the ATTIC !!

Hope this is helps


yes it helps, we need more laughs

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Aug 13, 2019 16:41:33   #
Muddyvalley Loc: McMinnville, Oregon
 
14kphotog wrote:
I go with the guy's initials and he has a 1952 MG. Not too obscene unless he says a lot of obscene things because the 1952s were very hard to keep running ????????????


Probably not that reason. I had one for several decades. Made two cross country trips between Oregon & Florida. Probably the most dependable & easiest to maintain car I've ever owned. That said, it was unsafe, (suicide doors, gas tank ready to blow in a rear ender), under-powered, & had practically invisible tail lights, The ex took it.

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Aug 13, 2019 16:47:34   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone posted that CA rejected his request for a vanity plate - UKE 52MG - saying it was profanity. What am I missing?


In Vermont DMV rejected 4Q2

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Aug 13, 2019 20:20:16   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
PixelStan77 wrote:
In Vermont DMV rejected 4Q2

I can understand that one!

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Aug 13, 2019 20:21:29   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
ken_stern wrote:
I Googled UKE 52 MG --
Closest I came up with was a series of photos of "UKULELE's

"IF" I could play one my Wife assures me it would only be in the ATTIC !!

Hope this is helps


Google just UKE.

Interesting.........
Might not refer to a ukulele.

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Aug 14, 2019 02:54:49   #
Wallen Loc: Middle Earth
 
my search turned up Mirena IUD birth control device. In our language, uke is only a letter short of a vulgar name for woman's privates.

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Aug 14, 2019 05:22:49   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
This was posted on a ukulele forum. I know that the people who approve vanity plates go through some training, and they have reference sources to check. I can understand them not explaining their reasons for rejecting a plate because that would be passing along profanity.

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Aug 14, 2019 10:03:42   #
Kozan Loc: Trenton Tennessee
 
PixelStan77 wrote:
In Vermont DMV rejected 4Q2


The best plate I have seen on a sports car that just screamed sorority babe was "HOTNWET".

Another one I remember seeing was MYRCD7.

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Aug 14, 2019 11:41:33   #
tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana
 
I heard this was banned - QQQQ

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