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OK, For the Week 4, we again have no winner for now. That means the standings are: Frankie - 1 Mary - 1 Me - 2 Week 4 will remain without a winner. I think I can find out whose car the week 4 plate belongs to. If so, I will ask them and award points later. If any more guesses come in, I will consider it (if I notice it, so if you think you figured it out, send me an email or post the guess in a current entry and label it Week 4 Guess.) Also, you may have noticed that I am using the word "week" very loosely. It will be at least 7 calendar days for each contest, and I will try to keep it to less than 2 weeks. The week 5 entry may be easier (or not, you never know): Good luck!

OK, For the Week 3, we have no winner. That means the standings are: Frankie - 1 Mary - 1 Week 3 will remain without a winner. If a later suggestion comes in, I will consider it (if I notice it, so if you think you figured it out, send me an email or post the guess in a current entry and label it Week 3 Guess.) Here is the entry for this week:

Let's give this survey a shot. Will you try it and pass the link along to as many people as you can? I'd like to max out the 100 participant limit on this survey to get some interesting data. Click Here to take survey

OK, For the Week 2, we have a winner, Frankie , but I like Theia's inclusion of the animals on the plate to guess vet and also, a "hats off" to Mary for making the obligatory Friday-esque guess. Now, for Week 3. I have not gotten around to setting up a survey on license plate frequency, but I will try to do that this week.

OK, so first of all, thanks to everyone that dropped by last week, and especially those that took a guess. The winner of week 1 IMHO (and since it is my game, that is what counts) :) is the incomparable Mary !!! Congratulations Mayor, you can add Winner Week 1 to the other titles (Beer Perfessor, Collegiate Superstar and all the others I can't remember right now) you so proudly wear. Now, on to this weeks contest. I just saw this one earlier this week while out to lunch with some friends from work. I am eagerly anticipating some fun guesses here. Also, as Frankie (also runner up for Week 1) mentioned, we seem to have a lot of customized plates, so I was wondering what parts of the country have the highest frequency of custom plates. Stay tuned as I will be putting together a survey by next week if I can. Should be interesting. In the meantime, please leave a comment with a note about how often you see custom plates. I see 5 or more just about every day.

I enjoy reading license plates, so I started taking pictures of them when I could do it safely. So I thought this might be a fun way to share some of them. Sometimes they are pretty self-explanatory, others are more obscure than some of the clues in a New York Times crossword puzzle. Even the apparently simple ones might have alternate meanings. So the game is this. Each week, I will post another picture and you all (if you are really out there) can post your thoughts on the meaning of that weeks plate. Sound like fun? I hope so. Oh, there are no prizes other than the title of "Winner Week #n" if you are the first comment with the selected winner. My decision is final. So, here is this weeks plate: OK, so what do you think this one stands for?