4 COF - numberplate of the week award

Seen on a Toyota 4x4 with a female driver...

URN 8 lives on a Jaguar S-Type nowadays, previously seen on a Mk 5
Astra complete with elderly driver

Isn't it about time for someone to mention Steve Parrish?

NoTW#3 :-)

What is it with Jag drivers - WOG 1 seen on a rather nice early
convertable at the Le Mans Classic this year.

I can only assume he doesn't work for The Race Relations lot

or his name is William Orlando Green

My team once implemented a project called "Far Queue" when a group or
surly sysadmins refused to put a print spooler on the box we wanted...
that went down well but I don't think they got it.

On a geekier note, I once set up a mail system where all the hosts were
named after chocolate bars. An outbound relay was called 'timeout',
which led to endless confusion on the support desk when they saw "host
timeout" in the logs. Ho ho ho.

I'm sure I've told you before about the 6 uVaxen we used to run all
named after the counties of N.Ireland.

"One of the machines down"
"I know"
"No, I mean, one of them is down"
"Oh, which one"
"Armagh's down, Antrim's up, Down's up"
etc.

Many years ago I was partially responsible for a set of workstations running
CASE tools and another set running hardware design tools. The CASE machines
all had names that could take the suffix CASE while the hardware machines
could all copy with the prefix HARD. One of the hardware machine was named
BOARD; the software machines included VANITY and JUSTIN and the machine
common to both applications was called NUT.

Was the SysAdmin's name Leslie Nielsen?

I wrote a system for a Anglo-French company that I wanted to call the "Next
Incoming Client Queue". The French weren't too happy using the acronymn

Used to be on a blinged-up Lexus LS400 in Swansea: FAT 130Y
Used to be on a Frontera in Manchester: H 70NKA

Also seen on a Fireplace in Swansea, CBR 900R

The Bed Shop in Haverfordwest has a delivery van D1 VAN.

DVLA don't think so, registerd to a black 1992 Honda 899cc motorcycle.

And prolly worth more than the bike.

Seen illegally parked near the Uni the other day -- C16ABY, but
the 1 was moved to within a mm of the C and trimmed to make them look like
an O, then a big space and the rest close together with a black bolt in
the gap of the 6 (and maybe some "shaping" as well) so that from any
distance it looks like "O BABY". It almost looked like he _wanted_ a Q-plate.

There was a minor band on the student circuit in the 70s called Far
Canal.

Chris D

YE51 DOG
On a Fiesta in Doncaster...

I saw one, years ago... F15TFK.

It raised a chortle...

A mate and I saw a BMW 3 series coupe on the M1 one evening, occupants
looking camper than a row of pink temts - the registration was FEM 180Y,
with the 1 shoved close to the M and a large gap to the 8.

One letter different is Ant Espindola's motor.

Chris D

On a Golf near Bath: BEG 41 T

NoTW#2 :-)

Chris D

Pointless - you might as well tape fivers to the inside of your windows

heh. That's the best description of personalised plates I've heard,
too.

I treat them as "STAY WELL AWAY FROM THIS VEHICLE" signs.

Especially those on Skodas

Good rule for life that, Lozzo

but didn't Burnt come up with it first?

Dunno. I first heard it from a colleague in about 1992.

I was sure you described it to me as "burnt said...etc." Given how
cheap "personalised" plates are these days, it's not really true
anymore anyway[1]

[1] yes, I've thought about buying one, and it would cost less than
500 quid.

Hmmm. I still think 500 quid is a lot on something so utterly
pointless.

So do I. But, presented with the opportunity to have what I am routinely
known as without any faffing with spacing, screws etc....I couldn't say no.
I do regularly apologise for it though.

there are - IMO, of course - some "valid" reasons for them i.e.
pseudo-non-age-related plates for old Porsches etc.

Define "pointless".

Something for which I can discern no point. YMM, of course.

UPU 251R?

heh - no. I should have said "I've thought about buying one, but
decided against it".

PI55OFF?
D4RSY?

something like that - that exact reg isn't available.

UPY-002 was a personalised plate on a Range Rover in Adelaide when SA first
introduced personalised plates. At that point they had to start with a
limited range of letters (perhaps only U) to fit in with SA's allocation
of rego codes, and had to be three letters followed by three digits.
This was later relaxed to 3+3, 2+4 or 4+2.