OLPOTLKR

If you saw that on the license plate of the car ahead of you, what would it say to you?

Thinking of this as a personalized license plate for my OH for Christmas.  I can't get exactly what I want and wonder if this would work.

Figure since I'm in Canada and most of you are in the U.K. it's safe for me to ask here without anybody stealing my great idea.  LOL, what I hope you will prove is my great idea.  :)

Old Pot Licker? :D

or a ruder one....Old Poo Talker - aka talks a load of cr*p! hahaha

Old Pot Liker - someone who smokes weed and is getting on a bit?

Someone's got more money than sense!....and I'm sure that's not what you would want people to think!

Years ago in Aussie, there was a discussion on a Sydney radio station about the boom in personalised plates & that some were just ridiculous, apparently one had been seen in the eastern suburbs 'O*g*sm'. It had to be a sick joke, then some weeks later drew up behind a very expensive red convertible sports car, woman driver & couldn't believe the plate, 0 rgasm. Never forgotten it, how anyone could have paid for such a plate, let alone trash their car & be seen driving it!
Loathed personalised plates since, more money than sense, sorry.

Someone's got more money than sense!....and I'm sure that's not what you would want people to think!

Why do you say this?  It must be different in the U.K. to provoke such a statement.

LOL  I thought I was stacking the decks by posting this question on a dog forum.  I hoped everybody would see it as Old Pot Licker.  Which of course is a dog.  My OH has greeted his friends with, "How are you, you old Pot Licker?" for years so I'm sure any of our friends would realize the intent right away.  Only male friends, he doesn't call the ladies an old dog.  :)

But if even dog people on a dog forum don't see it then I think I'm going to pass.

Years ago in Aussie, there was a discussion on a Sydney radio station about the boom in personalised plates & that some were just ridiculous, apparently one had been seen in the eastern suburbs 'O*g*sm'. It had to be a sick joke, then some weeks later drew up behind a very expensive red convertible sports car, woman driver & couldn't believe the plate, 0 rgasm. Never forgotten it, how anyone could have paid for such a plate, let alone trash their car & be seen driving it!
Loathed personalised plates since, more money than sense, sorry

That wouldn't be allowed here.  The agency alloting the plates screens for improprieties.  I wouldn't like to see that either but some are quite cute and creative.

Yay Killickchick.  I was hoping everyone would see it as you do.  The Pot Licker one.

Jeangenie, I have to comment on your interpretation too.  You picked the same words as someone on a sewing forum I go on.  But that lady meant Pot as in pottery.  Someone who likes old pottery.  LOL, wild interpretations I never, ever would have guessed.  I'm glad I asked first.

>I hoped everybody would see it as Old Pot Licker.  Which of course is a dog.

That's not a colloquialism I've ever heard over here. :-o

I'd love a personalized number plate but the one I wish to have is already taken.. So i'll wait for now.. Lol I was thinking someone sure likes their pot!! ;-)

I assumed pot as in yoghurt pot!

That's not a colloquialism I've ever heard over here.

What, really?  I thought it was international.  Well no wonder it's not going as I thought.

Lokis mum wrote

> Someone's got more money than sense!....and I'm sure that's not what you would want people to think!

Lacy wrote

>Loathed personalised plates since, more money than sense, sorry

Just wondering what it is about personal plates that inspire people to write such disparaging comments? Just because they are not to your taste there is no need to be so rude about someone else's query.

Personally I can't see the point in spending large amounts of money on designer clothes or fancy jewelry but wouldn't dream of criticising people who like these things. I am sure there are people out there who cannot understand why we want to spend hundreds of pounds on pedigree dogs when you can get one for very little from rescue.

What people like and want to spend their money on is entirely up to them. I think the old addage is worth remembering "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all".

We've all got personalised number plates in our family..so that means we all have more money than sense then.  :)  :)  It must be genetic!!!  :)  :)

We've got a personalised plate but only people who know us realise that it's personalised. :-) Best of both worlds - we can remember it but we don't appear flash!

(I still covet the red landrover I saw with the numberplate P4NTS.)

Aw JG!! Now you have let on to the younger members on the board that we 'of a certain age' require as many memory prompts as we can get!!  :)  :) :)

>I thought it was international.

I just found this Urban dictionary definition of pot licker .... Probably not the right impression!

Old Pot Licker  = Old dog. 

My brother in law calls dogs pot lickers, he is from North of England but brought up in Germany from 15.

I read it as Old Pot Licker Jetstone, but I didn't know what an old pot licker was.
If everyone in Canada(?) knows what an old pot licker is and it'll make your OH laugh then why not go for it :)

I read it as old pot licker too but I have never heard of that saying.

I think of private plates as a snobby thing.  The ones I know that have them only have them to disguse the age of the car as they don't want the neighbours to know how old it is.  Mine is an ancient rust bucket that's stinks of damp dogs and I love it!!lol

You go for it, jetstone jewel, if it means something to you two!

>I think of private plates as a snobby thing.  The ones I know that have them only have them to disguse the age of the car as they don't want the neighbours to know how old it is.

You obviously don't know the right people then cracar!  :)  :)

JG that was my thought precisely but decided I would keep shtum for fear of upsetting someone.

I'd not heard of the "pot licker" thing either.

>The ones I know that have them only have them to disguse the age of the car as they don't want the neighbours to know how old it is.

You can't put plates on a car to make it look younger than it is, only its real age or older. :-) You can't put a 12 plate on a car made before March this year, even if it is a private plate.

I think of private plates as a snobby thing.

Gosh, you only need to look around the car park at shows to see just how many people have them! If nothing else, easy way to find people!! I'd love to have one.

> You can't put a 12 plate on a car made before March this year, even if it is a private plate.

No - but if you have a private plate nobody knows (unless they are a student of car models) how old your car is :) I'm not bothered that I have a 7 year old car and my OH's is 8 years old, but some people are :) :) :) It must be a family/friends group thing possibly - no-one in my family/extended family has a private plate and only one of my friends has one :) :)

Personally I think they are pretty pointless. The only plates that I like are those that mean something to everyone, clearly - for example, many years ago before plates were fashionable, a neighbour had the plate MOO !!! ( or MOO 111) :) If I have to stop and think what a plate means, then it's not worth the money :) As for initials, there are many reasons why I wouldn't want people to be able to identify my car :) :)

I read Old Pot Licker but had no idea what it meant. 

I have never been bothered for private plates - my oh is but neither of us have one at the moment

Your cars are 7 and 8 years old! That's new. :-) Ours is 18, and we don't care who knows it. :-)

> That's new.

LOL - that's why we don't mind people knowing it :) OH's old Volvo would be about 18 now and he would still be driving that if someone hadn't written it off for him :( We have no plans to change the cars either :) :)

Never heard of it as in dogs and I'm a northerner! :)

At the same site linked by Jeangenie I found these meanings as well:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pot-licker

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=potlicker

And, courtesy of a poster on my sewing forum, in the southern U.S. it can mean the juices left over in the pot after cooking cabbage and it's liquor, not licker.  I was a bit concerned about the drug and alcohol connotations.

I found some Irish meanings last night that I can't locate now.

And, I googled a Canadian auto forum and apparently some people there have been reported for driving infractions they did not commit (they say) and they attribute it to their personalized plate being more easily remembered.  Not to mention the ones who DID commit a driving infraction and found the plates to be a detriment.

Lordy, who knew an attempt to get a Christmas present for my OH would be so educational.  :)

I went past a horse box a few years ago (can't remember exactly what the digits were) but basically it spelt NAAA GG'S
Tee hee hee made me chuckle on the long drive back from Wales! :)

>If I have to stop and think what a plate means, then it's not worth the money

Our private plates are for our convenience not for others' amusement!  :)

> Our private plates are for our convenience not for others' amusement

?? :) :) I thought number plates were a means of identfying a vehicle for the police/general public ?? I know what my car number is :) :) :)

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I know what my car number is :-) :-) :-)

But..when you are as old as me, your memory won't be as good!!  :)  :)

> But..when you are as old as me, your memory won't be as good

LOL :) :) Probably won't be too long :( :) :)

I've had a private plate on my car since I was 25 .... most of the family do too, no particular reason, I just like mine :)

I have one on my car my initials so do the rest of the family except my daughter ( she will be getting hers when we find the right one )

>I thought number plates were a means of identfying a vehicle for the police/general public ?? I know what my car number is

I know what the personal one is. :-) Even after 10+ years with the other car I need to go out and check the plate if it's needed.