USA Number Plates Ramblings

I woke up this morning with an unexpected desire to write about American license plates. When I say this, I do not mean that I wish to really write about American license plates. You know, dedicate my life to it and all that. No, no. Don't worry, I'm staying put and will continue to enchant you with number plates news from all over the world. Hurrah! (I can hear your applause from here. Thanks.)

Right, American license plates. As many of you may be aware, license plates differ from state to state in America. There's none of the nationwide uniformity we British enjoy over here. I read an interesting report about the different mottos you get from different states. Those who've made the wise choice of reading the Numberplates.com blog will be aware that Alabama's motto is soon to change to "Sweet Home Alabama", for example.

I read of a few others too. New York's car registration plates say "The Empire State", while New Jersey's sport the slogan, "Garden State". A couple of more interesting ones, in my opinion, are Montana with "Big Sky Country", and South Dakota with "Great Faces, Great Places". Such optimism!

But, first place in my little USA license plates contest has to go to Idaho with "Famous Potatoes". Now, who wouldn't immediately log onto the net and look up these supposed "famous potatoes"? It's ingenious! For those of you lacking the time, (and perhaps the inner-loser) Idaho produces a third of all potatoes grown in the USA. Well, that's just splendid. They should be very proud of themselves. As they indeed are. This is shown in their inclusion of it on their license plates. I'm not sure that famous is really the right word though...

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