Chilean License Plates - co-blogged with Renee

As we are putting together our list of what we will miss the only thing that Renee can come up with is Chilean license plates.  Given that, I thought that we would co-write a blog about them.  Pepe's Chile does a good job of explaining the types but Renee goes a step further by explaining her fascination with the numbering/lettering system.

The typical Chilean license plate has three sets of two numbers or letter.  The first set is always letters, the second set is either, and the third is always numbers.  Going back to your junior high school math class that give you 26*26*36*36*10*10 or 87,609,600 combinations.  Unfortunately, this leads to enough to cover the entire country so there was no car game to find license plates from every region on our long car trip.  This is ours:

There are no vanity plates, so Renee's game is to use the abbreviations to come up with cute phrases. She has had to memorize the first 36 elements of the periodic table this year (in Spanish - Helio, Fierro, Escandio) so that has added a bit of intrigue.  For some reason Texas has been the only state to appear as an abbreviation so there is no chance to really practice those.

Here are some of Renee's recent favorites:

Pink Dog - In our building garage and a "pink" car

CT LG 82 - Cat laugh
CH HD 19 - Chile hazard 19
CW BY 11 - 11 cowboys
BY KD 63 - Bye kid (seen on the way to school)
DD DD 43 - just fun to say


ND 90 46 - My own siting - seen on the day of the NCAA Women's Basketball Final - Notre Dame vs. Baylor.  I thought that it was a nice omen but.....it ended up being BU 80 61