Seen pulling into the hospital parking lot this morning, a cardiologist with a vanity license plate on his car. The vanity plate read:
LUB DUB
(For nonphysicians who may not be aware of the significance of the above, "lub-dub" is the way the two parts of the heart sound with each beat are usually represented in medical texts, as in lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub, lub-dub.")
That's got to be about the best physician vanity plate I've ever seen.
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The best physicist vanity plate I've ever seen was "QVANTUM". It was on a BMW Z4 too. I guess there's good money in quantum mechanics.
A mathematics professor I know used to drive a car with a plate reading "MATRIX". Of course, that was before the movie. I don't know if he still uses it.
In a place I formerly worked, there was a PV-NRT. I don't know if the equal sign was not available, or if the plate owner was a real zero.
Personally, I liked the Audi with the license plate "OLOGIST." You'll never guess what the owner's specialty was.
In the hospital's parking garage I used to see a little sporty convertable with a plate that said "LUV2CUT".
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"NC #1 MD", and modest about it.
A car in the lot nearest the bio and chem buildings at school had the plate "NFIXER." It belonged to the plant phys prof, who specializes in--guess?--nitrogen fixation.
I bet some people are gonna think the doc loves Dubya.
There's a "MS EMF" that I presume belongs to a physicist 'round here.
I wish I had the Ohio plate that reads 4n6doc.
I used to see a plate that read "ONE2DNC". I thought it belonged to a gynecologist until I got close enough to read the frame: "It takes two to tango".
Best license plate I ever saw was YXBALAM. Mayan Yax Balam means Black Jaguar, which of course it was. I almost sat on the car waiting for the owner to congratulate them on their plates.
and not quite as geeky is my husband's former coworker whose plate simply said "RISING". the car was a geo storm. color: red.
ONE2DNC? That's a very brave thing to have on your numberplate in the United States.
Over in UK, on an infectious diseases doctor's car: SFL1S. The plate was bought for her by her father!
@ knobody: Grooaan! :-D
A local HS biology teacher's husband bought her a vanity plate in honor of her profession. I do not joke.
BIO TCH
I have no idea how it made it past the censors.
The students loved it. She was stuck with it for some time.
Well, I know a prof whose plate reads 'PHEROMON' and another whose is simply 'RNA'.
Best license plate I ever saw was YXBALAM. Mayan Yax Balam means Black Jaguar, which of course it was. I almost sat on the car waiting for the owner to congratulate them on their plates.
I saw this one many years ago: HIHOAG.
Yep, light grey 'stang.
A doctor I know recently bought a new Fiat. His plate: FIASCO (possibly unwise in this climate of litigation). Anyway, he says the choice was obvious - loves Fiats but holds no illusions about them.
Okay, so it's slightly off topic, but this customized Ford Escort is perhaps the worst in existence.
Two plates:
HEADFXR - a psychiatrist
C THRU - a radiologist
However, in the era before vanity plates, my favorite all time name/profession:
Name : PLEASURE, HYMAN
Address : ORANGEBURG NY
Profession : MEDICINE
License No: 030597
Date of Licensure : 06/27/35
Additional Qualification :
Status : NOT REGISTERED
Registered through last day of :
Medical School: Not on file Degree Date : Not on file
Dr. Pleasure was chief of a state psychiatric hospital that specialized in.....
sexual predators, etc.
i always liked the one on a gastroenterologists car:
1BM QD
My urologist neighbor in NM - CME2P
B HCG on a Green BMW in Chicago, seen on the Kennedy in the late 1990's.
Also seen on Lake Shore Drive in the late 1990's in Chi-town was a red Mitsubishi 3000T with "artery" and its companion blue Mitsubishi 3000T reading "vein" just behind. I kid you not. Best laugh I had for awhile.
There was a gynecologist where I live who had "2OT DOC" on his plates.
Similar to the one Jeff posted, I saw a urologist's porsche with the plate NOPCME (No pee, see me). Loved it!
My uncle John had vanity plates reading GOITER. :)