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No. 1 plates
Fans hold tight to letter combinations that reflect their loyalty
Saturday, September 16, 2006
By Joe Blundo THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio State fans love to wear their hearts on their license plates. The state has at least 22,000 motorists with OSU specialty plates, regular plates with an OSU message or both. When the Buckeyes host Cincinnati today, the game will feature No. 1 vs. No. 2 ? in specialty collegiate license plates.
OSU is the most popular collegiate plate in Ohio, with Cincinnati a distant second (18,065 versus 2,191). Of course, fans can ? and many do ? send Buckeye messages even on regular plates. That process became easier in the 1990s, when the state began allowing seven characters. Suddenly, prized combinations such as BUCKEYE and GOBUCKS ? not to mention TBDBITL ("The Best Damned Band in the Land") ? were up for grabs. Not for long, though: Attentive fans snapped up the most obvious combinations. Hence the alternative spellings seen on cars of the less quick: BUCS, BUKS, BUX. Here?s how some Buckeye backers with plates 2 DIE 4 landed the placards.
 
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SO TO SPEAK
More plates give license to loyalty
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Time for updates, reactions and more Buckeye license plates:
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My story about license plates with Ohio State messages (Sept. 16) prompted several readers to write and offer their own.
With 22,000 such plates prowling the roads, I could never list every motorist who has one.
But here are a few more people who arrange numbers and letters to support their favorite university:
? IDOTTDI ? Chris Kuhn, band director at Waggoner Road Middle School in Reynoldsburg, proudly advertises that he achieved the sousaphone player?s dream of dotting the "i" in Script Ohio. He did it three times during the 1996 and 1997 seasons.
? SCRPT OH ? Kuhn?s parents, Ted and Sue of Dublin, have this on a bus they use for OSU tailgating.
? BUCICB ? Dan Reichley of Canal Winchester is a Navy Seabee and a Buckeye fan, hence the message.
? DA BUCKS ? The old sketch about blue-collar fans praising "da Bears" (as in Chicago) inspired this plate, owned by Dale Lynde of Gahanna.
? BUCKYZ ? Mac Gray of Lancaster displays this plate on his van (scarlet exterior, gray interior).
? BUKINUT ? Barbara Nesser of Reynoldsburg announces her loyalty with this plate.
? OSUOSU ? Kim Newman of Portsmouth has her plate on a sporty red car. By the way, she?s the fan who sings the first verse of Carmen Ohio on a Dispatch.com video. (Click on the "videos and slide shows" icon to see the hidden singing talent lurking in Buckeyeland.)
? NUT4 BUX ? Tammy Solt of Grove City snapped up this plate when the former owner let it expire two years ago.
? BUKGUYS, OH ST BKI and the "O" from an Ohio State specialty plate paired with HIGH O: They are owned, in order, by siblings Barbara Del Col of Westerville, David Riehl of Strongsville and Pat Downey of Columbus.
? TBDTITL ? Barb and Phil Watts of Alexandria say they?re quoting Coach Jim Tressel. After the Fiesta Bowl nationalchampionship game in 2003, the coach declared OSU "the best damn team in the land."
 
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Hawaii only allows six characters, so I'm thinking about getting "BUCKAI". It works out well because the "AI" portion is Japanese for "love", and also because the "KAI" portion is Hawaiian for "sea" or "ocean", meaning I was a Buck from across the ocean.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;618544; said:
Hawaii only allows six characters, so I'm thinking about getting "BUCKAI". It works out well because the "AI" portion is Japanese for "love", and also because the "KAI" portion is Hawaiian for "sea" or "ocean", meaning I was a Buck from across the ocean.
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Well, I ended up getting something a tad different:
 

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MililaniBuckeye;1872901; said:
You would not believe how many dip[Mark May]s have asked me, "What does 'O-HIG-HO' mean?"
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The same with mine. The geniuses in the data center I work at couldn't figure out O8CHIO for the life of them but they got WTF RTFM right away when they saw it on a car. Yes, that is a real license plate down here. They don't call it the Dulles Tech Corridor for nothing. :)
 
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