Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[David]

LOL!   Funny that you say that Leslie!    We have plenty of Maine plates runing around down here in Connecticut.    Turns out a few years ago our safety inspections got real hard for some clunkers to pass.  So these folks discovered that you can register a vehicle in Maine without a safety inspection and you DON'T need a Maine address!

You mail in a check to the Maine DMV with your registration and they'll mail you back a set of license plates to Connecticut!   The don't care if you're not a resident!    And trust me, these old clunkers in the worst section of town are not folks with Maine vacation homes!    LOL.

Maine shouldn't allow this, but they must like the money it generates.  Connecticut DMV is furious at this, but they can't just pull over every car with Maine tags!    So they expect people to report their neighbors if they are doing this.  Yeah! right!

We can't make such creative plates here in CT.   We can't mix letters and numbers unless separated by a dot.   We don't have any of these "! @ # $ % & * +" symbols either.   (New Hampshire lets you use those too.)   Connecticut has strange vanity plate rules.   We are limited to six characters too.  

Here are Some I thought of:

BBM-FAN

LUV-BBM

TWIST

BBM-1

[MaineWriter]

Unfortunately, TWIST is not available, but you have some other choices...

[MaineWriter]

Those are nice, David, but I am still partial to the E&E 4EVA style, myself...that's what I think you really need!

L

[MaineWriter]

I may need to re-register my car!

I actually just checked on this...vanity plates in Wyoming are called "Prestige Plates" and you can't search on them online...so no way of knowing if Ennis and Ellery are available. Actually, EJC is more what I picture on the blue El Camino...

L

[louisev]

Wayne has a little Toyota Corona (the little hatchback that was seen just about everywhere in the late 70's and early 1980's, I believe) and the Prestige plate on that car says:

"ISUKCOK"

[MaineWriter]

Wayne has a little Toyota Corona (the little hatchback that was seen just about everywhere in the late 70's and early 1980's, I believe) and the Prestige plate on that car says:

"ISUKCOK"

Do you think the prisoner hammering this out up in Warren would realize what it says?



(Folks, this is a real license plate which the Maine DMV is telling me is available!)

[louisev]

Yeah, he does.  And he's saying "so do I, bud, so do I."

[MaineWriter]

In one of the more bizarre twists of license-plate land, this is available:




but SPANKEE is taken. Too bad...!

[louisev]

 I was just looking at Leslie's license plates ENNIS and ELLERY, and it occurred to me that on one level, the romance between our heroes has a mystical significance based upon the mirroring of their names, as though they are complimentary parts of the same thing, the inner-directed power of Ennis and the outward and worldly Ellery, together making a combination that complements both of them.

[MaineWriter]

I was just looking at Leslie's license plates ENNIS and ELLERY, and it occurred to me that on one level, the romance between our heroes has a mystical significance based upon the mirroring of their names, as though they are complimentary parts of the same thing, the inner-directed power of Ennis and the outward and worldly Ellery, together making a combination that complements both of them.

I have always liked the way their names go together. I also like the 4 L's in Ellery's name. I have 4 L's in my name, too, and something about all those lovely L's rolling together off my tongue has always appealed to me.

L