As many people know, I have been playing a "license plate game" in Chicago for many years, and have gotten our kids hooked. As Chicago just uses a straight numerical listings, and not some complex alpha-numeric code as in many cities, you can find interesting plates amongst the 1- 8000 numbers-only system (and they are plastered on both plates, the sides, the top, etc.) They have always reminded me of large lotto balls. Over the years I have seen plates like "1776", "1812", "1984", "2001", all of our ages and our birth years, "1040" on tax day once - we even stopped and took our pictures by cab "1" once.
Well down here, I noticed all of the plates are just three random letters, followed by three random numbers, so we stared a letter game instead! The kids are having a blast and Suzanne is going bonkers. We have seen tons of short words (both English "LEG", and Spanish "MAS") and many three letter acronyms, plus even two of our initials "MAW" (mine) and "IFW" (Isabelle Flora Wychocki) so far.
We wondered, however, if they did any human editing like they do for vanity plates in the states, as we saw one that was JEW?!? Very weird.
The kids started "scoring" and created a variable points value-system, and then of course, everyone started fighting! :)
Suzanne said she won't be impressed until we see some web words like OMG, LOL, BFF. So, maybe we'll get her hooked too.
- Mike
Well down here, I noticed all of the plates are just three random letters, followed by three random numbers, so we stared a letter game instead! The kids are having a blast and Suzanne is going bonkers. We have seen tons of short words (both English "LEG", and Spanish "MAS") and many three letter acronyms, plus even two of our initials "MAW" (mine) and "IFW" (Isabelle Flora Wychocki) so far.
We wondered, however, if they did any human editing like they do for vanity plates in the states, as we saw one that was JEW?!? Very weird.
The kids started "scoring" and created a variable points value-system, and then of course, everyone started fighting! :)
Suzanne said she won't be impressed until we see some web words like OMG, LOL, BFF. So, maybe we'll get her hooked too.
- Mike
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