Friday, June 02, 2006

FEEL THE MASSIVE, UNYIELDING EXTENT OF MY DORKITUDE!



My license plates got stolen last month, so it seemed like a good time to take another giant step toward merging what's left of my identity with the Internet. I did learn something interesting by having my plates stolen, though, because along with the plates the thief, not being a gentleman thief, also swiped the little nuts that secure the plates to the car. So I got to spend ten minutes in Home Improvement with a Nut Expert who deduced that not only were my nuts metric (damn European carmakers and their unruly conformity to a decimalized system of measurement), but they had a special name. The nuts seen above are called acorn nuts. Put that in your squirrel-shaped pipe and smoke it.

32 Comments:

Blogger sweetney said...

wow. that's sort of, umm, incredible.

YOU WIN.

June 02, 2006 10:44 AM  
Blogger Planet Heidi said...

Dammit, I was going to get license plates that referenced my URL, but now it'll just seem like I'm copying you.

June 02, 2006 11:29 AM  
Blogger G. said...

You're #1 Fussy in our figurative vehicle registration database, by God.

June 02, 2006 11:38 AM  
Blogger mathew said...

i'm off to check to see if 2 TIRED is still available.

btw, when your site was down i was getting email from people asking what was up with fussy.org? like i should know?

June 02, 2006 11:51 AM  
Blogger Tessa said...

YEAH!
Too fussy for state issued random number/letter plates.

Nice. Like.

June 02, 2006 12:06 PM  
Blogger Heather said...

A Nut Expert. An expert with a nut.

Oh, how the mind wanders.

June 02, 2006 2:38 PM  
Blogger pb said...

Not to be fussy but when confronted with an automotive parts problem, you should go to an auto parts store for faster service. Acorn nuts are hanging in little packages labeled license plate nuts. And I'm sure that if you asked, the fellows behind the counter would be happy to help you find the proper nuts.

June 02, 2006 2:42 PM  
Blogger Formerly Mrs. Kennedy said...

I did! I went to Manny, Moe & Jack first and they told me to go to the hardware store.

June 02, 2006 2:50 PM  
Blogger s@bd said...

OMGSH - if i lived even remotely close to you i would drive around looking for you.

but not in that 'crazy-stalker-way'! No! in that, 'please be my friend way'. really!

June 02, 2006 3:56 PM  
Blogger supa said...

Now would be a great time to airbrush a wormy-eyed skull in a hat onto the rear quarter panel. Just sayin'.

June 02, 2006 4:21 PM  
Blogger Celebrate Woo-Woo said...

Very nice. I think supa's definitely on to something with the paint job;>

June 02, 2006 6:20 PM  
Blogger puppytoes said...

2 FUSSY? too impressed for words!

June 02, 2006 8:41 PM  
Blogger puppytoes said...

and that was before reading about your "metric nuts". : P

June 02, 2006 8:42 PM  
Blogger Average Jane said...

It never even crossed my mind to get blog-oriented license plates, but now I may have to look into the availability of AVGJANE (they let you have 7 letters on the personalized plates in my state).

June 03, 2006 7:42 AM  
Blogger Lisa Stone said...

Oooh. T-shirt?

June 03, 2006 8:26 AM  
Blogger vwsista said...

Fussy rocks.

'nuff said.

June 03, 2006 8:49 AM  
Blogger Meepers said...

Shooot! That is really quite cool - Hmmm... I wonder how much fuss my husband would put up about getting
"Chock L8"...hmmm... Great Plates!

June 03, 2006 12:37 PM  
Blogger jenB said...

yes! t-shirts!

June 03, 2006 2:20 PM  
Blogger Karen Rani said...

That is 2 Cool!

June 03, 2006 3:45 PM  
Blogger Natalie said...

A lot more appealing than my BC licence plate that starts with ELF-***. Elf.. Not the cool feeling I was going for.. May have to give into a vanity plate too.

June 03, 2006 9:29 PM  
Blogger Miss Kitty said...

Awesome tag, Mrs, K. I also liked meepers' suggestion--CHOCL8 would be *great* on a license plate.

Here in Georgia, the state DMV has run out of tag number prefixes, so they've had to resort to the ones they'd said they weren't going to use...such as DUM and DUD. How'd ya like to be marked with DUM-*** wherever you drove? Of course, the "KKK" prefix is still a no-go (although it'd be appropriate for a lot of the less open-minded people here).

I wonder if "ASS" and "FUK" are still out of the question, too...

June 04, 2006 7:49 AM  
Blogger LBR said...

The DMV actually approved that plate? Wow! Were you able to get it re-issued?

June 04, 2006 11:34 AM  
Blogger tuckova said...

2 FUSSY
2 BE
4 GOTTEN

June 04, 2006 1:57 PM  
Blogger Kimblahg said...

i'm 2 fussy for my shirt
2 fussy for my shirt
so fussy it hurts.

June 04, 2006 7:26 PM  
Blogger R said...

I love Home Depot. I'm not really in the market for a Nut Expert. I'll have to investigate the specialties of the other employees.

June 04, 2006 8:12 PM  
Blogger honestyrain said...

oh this is going to make stalking you so much easier for me than it was yesterday! score!

June 05, 2006 7:13 AM  
Blogger Internal Expert said...

I am so feeling the Dorkitude .. and LOVING it!! :)

June 05, 2006 3:14 PM  
Blogger Dew said...

The Volvo has those, too. I love my squirrel nuts.... Wait. That came out totally wrong.

October 03, 2006 4:28 PM  
Blogger Bet On Me said...

Did you keep the same message on the plate, or you had to apply for the new one?

www.pl8s.org

March 28, 2007 6:38 PM  
Blogger Mrs. Kennedy said...

The stolen plates were just the standard-issue random numbers, so I went and got these as a replacement.

March 29, 2007 8:19 AM  
Blogger Bet On Me said...

Would you mind sharing your plate photo with my collection at www.pl8s.org?

March 29, 2007 3:24 PM  
Blogger Mrs. Kennedy said...

Sure, go ahead!

March 29, 2007 5:15 PM  

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