Word Play - 3M TA3

Well you have truly astonished me stormy - personally I don't understand WHY anyone would spend £125,000 on a NUMBERPLATE!!! Oh dear I think that is the saddest thing I have ever heard - here I was thinking that £4,000 was a ridiculous amount!! And what exactly WAS that stuff you gave me to drink? And yes, a living breathing horse would come before a flash car for me - besides, if I did own a nice sporty number (and I'm talking cars here, not footballers) I really don't think I'd let anyone else drive it, especially not some prat in a leather thong! JJ

yeah? well, there you go. Such differences in personality make the worrrrrld go round. Oh - that and money of course.

That posted before I was ready grrrr l was going to say, that, of course, I was obviously only joking re the man in the leather thong - of course he wouldnt be driving my flash new motor. He'd be in my bed. Just in case theres any doubt - I'm also joking here.

Men are terrible drivers anyway.

Truckers are terrible drivers (but, of course, they can also be women), and so are little Asian women in cars so big they have to look THROUGH the steering wheel instead of over the top. My wife's an excellent driver. Actually, she's a phenomenal driver when it comes to driving home FROM parties. Although I must admit that I'm no slouch myself when it comes to driving TO parties.

it was a WH1 SKY jennifer. the reason why plates are so expensive here is because that's what 'vainglorious' prats are prepared to pay. various goverments have hyped it up too as another tax raising ruse. speaking of which - here's another one I've just heard about: Car insurance premiums are going through the roof this year. why? because the NHS has never charged insurance companies the cost of treating accident victims due to the complicated paperwork. This has now been made simpler and now the NHS can hit them for the full whack. So the insurance companies hike up the premiums for the rest of us to pay. free treatment? oh yeah. *fecky! send hat quick!*

Is that because she's sober and you're not, Karl?

Cause it says "EAT ME" when you look in the rear view mirror.... I know it's horribly naff, but I'd love to be able to afford the plate " L1 ANA" Lottery?

Well that's, that then.

I'd love to be able to afford a car to put a plate ON... Come to think of it, though, if I had the money to buy a car, I'd spend it on something else.

I worked in medicine for a short spell and one incredibly naff consultant had a number plate NO1 GYNAE. No prizes for his speciality. The most amazing one I saw in London recently was a guy in a Merc with a plate B4D SH1T. I found out recently just how much personalised numberplates cost. A lot.

L1 ANA would probably cost you at least 4 grand - so it'll have to be one for the lottery win, hon. Now, what would you do if you won the lottery? I don't think that buying a personalised number plate would be first on the list. A horse would be top of my list. Jen

Who's this Karl bloke I keep seeing through the steering wheel?

I'll just have the horse that sits on top of the bonnet of my Ferrari thanks :o)

I wonder how dreadful we would all be if we were loaded. How crass, how silly, how gloriously eccentric. Just a thought.

£4000!! Four grand???????? sit down jennifer. drink this, yes, gulp it down. plates such as L1 ANA and COL 1N are almost , like their real life counterparts, priceless!! simple initials with some random numbers cost at least 4k. I find it amazing how much people will spend on vanity. A few examples from my weekend rag: 2 DBG - £4,999 D1 COL - £5,999 REX 1R - £6000 MEL 111 - £10,000 STE 9H - £14,950 1 DDK - £12,500 LE 3 - £25,000 R1 LEY - £40,000 1 DU - £45,000 JC 11 - £50,000 1 KD - £65,000 1 OFF - £125,000 !!! SW 1 £125,000 Astonishing isn't it? I'm off to look for 3M TA3. should only be about a fiver!

I would be horrendously extravagant I think. I'd have a personal male chauffeur, who would only ever be clad in merely a leather thong and peaked cap. I'd smoke sobranies, wear gold 12" spindly heels, drink Pimms, and play loud music. And thats just in Sainsburys car park...

Awwwww...priceless ? What a HON 1E you are :o) My dad used to promise me when I was a small girl, that he would buy that # plate for me when I was grown up. I think he thought he might be able to preorder it or something. Amazing how relationships change really...he has a major benny if I even request to borrow his car for 1/2 an hour these days...... *sigh*

I like the idea of the chauffeur Liana. I saw a lovely French footballer on Ruby Wax last night (he was gentle, philosophical and had the thighs of a Greek God): so maybe he could fill that cap. I would slumber lightly in the back, sophorific with sun, great food and the comfort of money. I would spend time with precious friends, travel and read, read, read. Worthiness would have to wait, aristocratic duty on the back burner. It would happen but for now, with my chaffeur reciting poetry in the front and me curled up foetally in the back, it would definitely have to wait.

OOh yes Wolfie, I saw that too, the yummy Emmanuel Petit (swoon) I have to say, if he was in my car, he wouldnt be reciting poetry in the front..... do ferrari's have back seats? *panicking*

Isn't this all just another example of how we get completly ripped off in this country? In the States it costs $40 per year for a personalised number plate. You make your own up, and as long as nobody else owns that plate in that state then it's yours. My sister, Sue, used to have UK GAL on her corvette, my mate had UK LAD on his merc, and I had DIVE UK on my Chevy Suburban (not because I think the UK's a dive, but because I'm a scuba diver). Sue now has CANI on one of her cars (Constant And Never-ending Improvement), which, for some reason, I've a feeling is going to piss someone off, although I can't quite imagine why right now.