Rejected Oklahoma vanity plates may not be in vain

Andy Dossett, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
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Oklahoma tag c3n5or
Oklahoma tag c3n5or

Each year, the Service Oklahoma Department receives thousands of requests for personalized license plates and each year moderators sort through those applications.

At a cost of only $25, Oklahomans can get a personalized license tag of their choice unless the request violates specific criteria, like implying a sexual connotation, using profanities or obscenities, referring to bodily functions or fluids, mentioning alcohol or drugs, and more.

Also each year, Oklahomans embark on a game of cat-and-mouse, using numbers or other codes to try and sneak past the state's license plate regulations.

Last year, 234 requests were rejected by Service Oklahoma, but the EE compiled a list of plates that maybe ( just maybe?) were too quickly shot down:

1. SML*PP

As any music lover will attest, the music notation, "pp" stands for pianissimo and means very quiet. Clearly, the driver of this car wanted to remind everyone to be on the lookout for that small pp located on sheet music that indicates the dynamics of how the piece is supposed to be played. Without that information, much of the mood and feeling of the piece would be lost. Right?

2. OKIE420

Obviously, the driver of this car was proud of his dual citizenship in the U.S. and Europe. Most people remember the country calling code of Czechoslovakia was 42. (Don't they?) But after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic adopted the country calling code of 420, and Slovakia took 421.

3. DEW*ME

Who doesn't like drinking a nice cold glass of Mountain Dew while driving across the plains along the Turner Turnpike to Oklahoma City?

4. SLOWPOS

We can respect any traveling salesperson who wishes to convey that their current point-of-sale system might be a little on the slow side and decide to ask for a little patience from their customers.

5. EATABAG

I believe the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association Bay Area Gathering takes issue with this one being rejected - because we know this driver wasn't referring to some kind of insult, right?

This article originally appeared on Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Rejected Oklahoma vanity plates may not be in vain