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The Register has obtained a list of the rudest words you'll never see on car number plates: the official list of banned registration marks from the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA). We almost don't want to sully the pure reputation of our website by publishing all the combinations of letters and numbers on our …

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  1. darklord
    FAIL

    urmmmmm

    How can 12 be an "r" most are just pointless anyway. still therll be appearing on a corsa and peugeots 208 near you soon.

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    1. CD001
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      12 = R

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      1. toxicdragon
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        12=12 R=R

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        1. Mips
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          Childcatcher

          As in

          A12SNL. Actually out in the wild.

          Have you seen MO02COW? Sadly no longer on a Smart car decorated as a Holstein cow. Reminded me of Gateway 2000. Oh happy daze.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Yet more nanny state bullshit. Who cares what a number plate can be construed as saying?

      Since When would PE12 ADO be offensive? Maybe to someone who can't fucking spell. P4 EDO would surely hit the mark a little squarer, no?

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      1. Steve Renouf
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        WTF?

        Perhaps there are more Yanks than we think in the UK...?

        Or is it that the younger brits are getting just as shit at spelling?!?

        It's spelled PAEDOphile FFS!

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  2. Kirstian K

    Others

    I randomly drove past a really old beat up car the other day, and the registration plate was:

    L51CKO which i thought was great (el Sicko)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Seen in South Africa

      171NCH

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  3. Zog The Undeniable
    Devil

    BA57 ARD

    Idea for the sysadmin with a grudge.

    Personally I'd like J1 HAD on an old white "Beirut gunship" Mercedes E-class. You'd never get cut up.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Plate seen parked outside local synagogue - J15 HAD - can you spell bomb scare?

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  4. Phil S
    Pint

    I always fancied getting the old style ones reading P155 OFF or P15 SED.

    Guess they're out too?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      There's a car, local to me, with P15 DOF.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        P15 DOF

        Think I've seen the same one - do you live in Swindon? Pretty sure I've seen it on a battered up old banger in Moredon.

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    2. Cosmo
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      Someone who lives close to me has the registration P11 SUF

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    3. skila
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      Go

      Dream numbers...

      As a child I dreamed of having P155 OFF and 801 LOX...

      I was lucky enough to have a car with P122 CFF, that;s the closest I ever got! Plate was non-transferrable though :(

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    4. defiler
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      P155 OFF

      I tried to register this for my old Yamaha - DVLA had it on the banned list way back then.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    BA54ARD

    Is still valid and on the road ;)

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    They missed at least one....

    I saw H8 ALA the other day, no guessing what he was thinking.

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  7. Greg J Preece

    Wait, "Koran" and "Torah" are offensive? How does that work? If you ask a Jew what the name of their holy book is, are they gonna go nuts and punch you?

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    1. Anonymous Coward 15
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      Joke

      Especially if you say Jehovah!

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      1. Dr. Mouse
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        We're not stoning anyone...

        ... Even if they do say "Jehovah"!

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Bet you could get H411BUT though.

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  8. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge

    Oh dear

    Reading that last sentence, for a moment I thought they'd banned TA12 DIS.

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  9. Simon Neill

    hmm.

    In that case I want

    TA12 DIS.

    And my car spraying blue.

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    1. MJI Silver badge
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      I wonder?

      If Smith or Moffat will get that one

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  10. Marcus Haas

    Back in the 90s, I saw a silver BMW 3 series with the registration J1 HAD, wonder if that's still in circulation.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Nope

      Not currently on a vehicle.

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  11. scrubber
    IT Angle

    When I were a kid

    I always wanted P155OFF

    Now I am more grown up I think I want TA12DIS

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  12. Parax
    Alert

    What idiot would buy PE12 VRT anyway?

    Jonny Smith, @Carpervert TV presenter & journalist, Perhaps..

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    1. Paul_Murphy
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      Actually

      In some ways it could be useful - if convicted paedophiles had to drive around with the plates that plates like that it might save an innocent.

      On the other hand as soon as people are judged by their car plate it's slippery slope.

      I personally think that vanity plates should be banned, and plates certainly not transferable - the vehicle gets it's plate and it stays with the vehicle until it's scrapped.

      Unless of course we go for a system that relies on people getting a plate (or plates) that are registered to them (i.e. you need to pay road tax and insurance before you get a plate) before they can drive a vehicle.

      Unless it's stolen you know that a car with a plate is insured.

      ttfn

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  13. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    I remember...

    ...EA51 LAY causing some consternation to a lass in the news.

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  14. Ryan 7

    Thought the last one was TA12 DIS

    I guess Dr Who is OK after all?

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  15. Throatwobbler Mangrove
    Headmaster

    hold on

    "Yardy, Jamaican slang for someone from a gang or a prison mate"

    No. Yardie is Jamaican slang for someone from a government yard (housing scheme) or from Jamaica ("the yard"). It's British slang for a Jamaican gangster.

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  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Whoever tried the 'peado' one

    is asking for eggs or worse. WHY?!

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    1. Steve Renouf
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      because they can't fu**ing SPELL!!!

      spaces

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    2. br0die
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      I'm sure they didn't choose it willingly, it just happened.

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  17. spiny norman
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    OK, I get it

    12 = R 11 = LL. You might still have to explain 61 to me, I'm not in the Twitter generation.

    I'm hoping the revenue DVLC gets from egotistical je12ks, who have to have their names on their number plates, pays the salary of whoever works this stuff out.

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    1. Will's
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      6 = G

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  18. Mike Bell
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    Bah! Prudes!

    I saw a car mincing around our town (inasmuch as a car can be said to mince) and it was sporting the number plate "SIR NO".

    Well, it made me laugh. I just hope it wasn't a wayward headmaster driving that vehicle. Anyway, I felt no inclination to write in to the Daily Mail. We are supposed to be eccentric Brits, after all.

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    1. Richard Pennington 1
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      NO 51R NO is on the roads in the area of Camberley, Surrey.

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  19. Alan 6

    There's a woman in Rochdale with these two number plates

    P 130OBS

    P3 13OOB

    All I can say after seeing the woman is "Mutton dressed as lamb"

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  20. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This sucks...

    I'm surprised at the number of plates I've seen that start BJ08

    What were they thinking...?

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  21. Dazed and Confused

    They didn't used to be up tight

    They allowed

    PEN1S

    I remember an interview on the telly with some one from licensing about how they'd decided they weren't going to allow

    STR1P

    though

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    1. philbo
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      @Dazed & Confused

      They're probably not going to allow STR1P, as the guy who already has T3ASE will probably want to park next to it on his drive.

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    2. Cazzo Enorme
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      PEN15 exists as well - I saw it a number of years ago, and appropriately enough on a red Porsche 911. In Hampstead, North London, some dickhead has MAF1A on a black 7 series BMW. When my Sicilian wife saw it at the petrol station in Belsize Park she took the time to walk up to the driver and call him something extremely offensive in Sicilian dialect. I don't think he understood the words, being most probably Russian, but judging by the shock on his face the way she said them must have imparted the meaning.

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        Cazzo Enorme's wife

        Oh, that was your missus! That was scary, I thought she's gonna scratch my eyes out.

        A BMW 7 driver

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    3. HipposRule
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      Famously

      Fiona Richmond (youngsters may need to search on that) had a Scimitar (ditto) registered as FU2.

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  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    No sense of humour these registration folk.

    Why wouldn't a 12 represent a capital 'r' ?

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  23. NorthernSands
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    Mmm...

    I always wanted P155 OFF. I guess that's in the list somewhere. :-(

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