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you see a car with vanity license plates that read "1USCFAN", and you think to yourself, "Wow, the owner of that car must really love the United States Code!"
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And you know you're a lawyer and a dork when you think, "Wow, that owner must really love the U.S.C. Congressional and Administrative News Volume but have gotten there just a little too late to get '1USCCAN'!"
What? Oh, like I'm the only one who's ever told a joke that bad.
Now if it had said 1CFRFAN I'd be worried.
"Out of what?" asks the other.
[Off topic, but inevitable]
I'll throw a couple off the top of my head:
ART3FAN
F3D4EVA
FRCPLVR
UCCGIRL
REST8MT
A woman after my own heart!
But I am told malpractice insurance might be hard to get if I did.
There are worse things to be than law nerds!
I had an associate once, who put DDC LAW, on his bright red muscle car's plates and got 3 tickets in 4 months.
Perhaps I should go ahead and get "480 U.S. 321, 323" etched onto my forearm in rebuttal.
The same classmate once told me he had seen the actual LA LAW plate while on the freeway one morning.
One of the law librarians at USC in those days -- who had a degree in library science but hadn't gone to law school himself -- had a plate that said NOJD4ME.
I also remember a young man who planned on attending law school and who was already trying to acquire the clothes, car, etc. which he thought went with the career choice. His license plate said AROGANT.
I know an attorney that has Lochner's cite (198US45) as his license plate number.
I might do UPUBLAWG (that's 8) for my blog... is that too dorky?
Out of other areas, how about
ROYGBIV (physicist)
E()MC2
NACL (chemist)
H2S04
KPCOFGS (biologist)
SSMMBMBSBBMM (med school, anyone?)