Not so cherished number plates

Come on you lot. Do I have to invent them all myself?

I was surprised at the number of personalised plates I saw while at Brighton. Sadly no creative ones though.

Slightly off topic but can anyone explain why so many folk with personalised registrations choose the number "666". I see loads round here - seems like tempting fate to me!  

Am I bovered what others think?  Do I look bovered.  We have one each and one in particular certainly attracts comments in our circle of concert goers.  

I'm not doing anybody any harm and, after all, it's my money to spend/waste as I see fit. :-)

When I moved to the bus industry in 82 after being  made redundant from a Rootes main dealers, London Transport as it was then were still running a lot of Routemasters. many of them had a registration number ending DYE, and yes we had 666 DYE. This particular bus wasn't popular with many drivers and eventually the number was transferred (after pressures from the union) to our Chief Engineers Volvo S80.

As far as I know, he is still alive after retiring and moving to Spain, in fact he came over for my retirement works do in 2012 and looked very well   

Cy  I bought a mgb gt many years ago borrowed some money of mother to pay for it took it home to show her she said don't liked that I said why the number plate mab 767p reminded her of her name Mabel pound she hated Mabel always gone by Joan still got the car but mother as soften to my Mabel now 

So what is it , JwJ? H4YDN

Way back before the fashion, or maybe they started it, there were two cars always parked outside one of Cheltenham's swankiest hotels. One chap owned a Rolls that sent the message UPU2 and his partner had a Jag FU2. Priceless now, I reckon, if you had the nerve.

We may have been labouring under a misapprehension. The following comes from some published research but who knows for sure?

666 is generally believed to have been the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible.[4] In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, containing the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the Number of the Beast. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original.[2] One possible explanation for the two different numbers is that they reflect two different spellings of Emperor Nero/Neron's name, for which (according to this theory) this number is believed to be a code.[5][6] However, other scholars state that the number cannot represent Nero.[7]

agree. a registered number plate maker will not make a plate up that isn't legal. all those with no gaps to get a name are breaking the law and will fail the MOT. doesn't stop them buying on ebay though.