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Jealous!!!!!!!
I wish I could have an NYI license plate!!!!!!!!!!
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
I had one last year...
NYIFAN and VA has a lighthouse design.
Besides “huh?”, the only response I got was, “what does the I stand for?”
If it doesn’t have anything to do with NASCAR or the REDSKINS it’s just a yankee thing, and is subject to getting keyed after a few too many rack bourbons and coke.
So… I went random, rather than having a number on my chest for a few years.
If I was in NY I’d probably try the Islander logo and “4 for 5”
LighthouseHockey: We saw this coming!
@JPinVA
Funny
I would have had you pegged for a foxhunting guy.
For anyone who isn’t aware, VA is the land of vanity plates, and you can find really just about any kind of interest represented. Take a minute to peruse the list in that link JP has. It’s ridiculous.
Tavares is Tavares.
gotta love the Home Schooling one
Georgia has a bunch too. I have seen quite a few down here now. None that really excite me. I only like the fact that there is no front plate down here.
IL?
I think Illinois may have more. I collect plates and it seems that for special events, even as short as one day, you can get vanity plates made for the event. I have one for the St. Charles Scarecrow Festival that was from Oct. 11 – 13, 2002. The plate was only valid for those three days. I have two consecutive years of vanity plates for American Education week. Does VA have anything like that?
by dunnowhat2type on Nov 1, 2011 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions
No short term plates...
… unless you get the “VIRGINIA IS FOR OPRAH LOVERS”. Then your plate is only good as long as you don’t park your car near a Hardee’s or Waffle House parking lot.
LighthouseHockey: We saw this coming!
@JPinVA
I'd agree Virginia takes the cake
Illinois may have a lot of choices, but they don’t seem to jump in the way Virginians do (no idea if that’s a pricing thing).
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
I think it's a pricing thing...
There are very few random plates that don’t at least have a special interest design. I’ve got one neighbor that couldn’t think of anything specific to himself to put on his license plate so he changed his name to JBZ-1305.
That joke’s gotta go back to George Burns and Gracie Allen… can anybody confirm that they had vanity plates in the vaudeville era?
LighthouseHockey: We saw this coming!
@JPinVA
go to Florida
They have all the different plate designs and color schemes on the wall of some of their larger DMV offices. It’s ridiculous.
Now, VA does top FLA in sheer numbers, but each of the 118 Florida plates has a different color scheme, and in many cases a radically different design. The VA plates are all pretty readily identifiable as VA plates; the Florida ones look like about a dozen different states. From a practical standpoint, it must make it a damned hassle on folks to get the tag number in an emergency situation or in low light – information that may prove lifesaving. But you know, screw that, we can make fifty bucks off the driver!
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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Yeah, well...
It’s nice rocking ‘ISLESFAN’ on my tag, but most people here are ignorant of it and paying an extra 70-odd bucks for it every year is a lot more costly than say, 2 Isles flags and a couple bumper stickers. But if someone would make a Grabner, Okposo or Tavares Fathead I’d place it proudly somewhere on my car.
You know you're an Islanders fan when you hit refresh on LHH 12 times a day. In summer.
Florida has more designs than you could ever dream of
"We can't get pushed around," Haley said. "What commentators say about us, that's their job. My job is to try and limit as many people who want to take liberties with our guys as possible."
by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Nov 7, 2011 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
I've been thinking about getting an Isles license plate
It would be for my next car. I’m not a fan of the gold license plates the DMV is issuing these days.
Here’s an example of the Islanders license plate, complete with prices.
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/spohock.htm#isl
Thats my car!
Have had it for a few years, the MXTAPE is for a song by one of my favorite musical artists Buth Walker, Was going to do a Dokken song but I couldnt figure a short enough tittle
by lostsin44 on Nov 2, 2011 9:15 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
I had a feeling about the Butch Walker reference
Sorry for stalking you out on the internet it was just too epic of a combo for me to not share it lol
Hoping that Haley comes around more than once every 75 years.
by ilopan on Nov 2, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If youre a Butch fan
here is a funny one, My one claim to fame with Butch is that I am in the beggining of the DVD he did a few years ago of that show in Atlanta, unfortunately I was drunk before the show and basically sound like a drunk fanboy lol. When I am on line at shows people ask me about it and I want to hide. I basically wanted to combine my 2 favoriute things, The Isles and music in one
Well I guess you can change the title of this
to Lostsin44 you’re doin everything right!
Thats just such a cool coincidence.
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
Youre a Dokken fan?
Nice! :D
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Nov 5, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you live in LI/NY?
If so, I am sure we have seen each other, maybe we even know eachother lol.
I havent counted, but Ive seen Dokken probably like 25 times (including Don solo)
They are great guys, my friends and I have hung out with Don a number of times.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Nov 6, 2011 1:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Long Island born and bred
Have been lucky enough to see them a lot here, in Florida and in Cali. Hung out with a drunk Don and Mick at Mulcahys after a show once. There is a lot of Dokken regulars I see all the time at shows, but I’m very shy and hang in the back and enjoy the shows.
Ha, Ive done that myself. We have probably seen each other before.
Ive been a Dokken fan since I first saw the video for Alone Again :) They are great guys.
My most recent Dokken sighting was watching Jeff headbang and do his rhythmic Jeff-trot to “Jukebox Hero” and such in Foreigner. It bums me out because I would much, much rather hear him do his own music than theirs.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Nov 6, 2011 11:56 PM EST up reply actions
For me it was the "Into the fire" video
Which I first saw on a channel called U68 which was a NY area based video channel on regular TV (for those of us who had cheap parents like mine who didnt want to get cable and MTV) back in the early 80s. they played metal videos from 11 to midnight every day. From there it was Fingers Metal shop on the radio and sneaking into Sundance in Bay Shore to see bands and 47 shows later still luv that band
by lostsin44 on Nov 7, 2011 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I remember u68
and love Dokken!
and just saw Foreigner too……
The 80’s hair bands were always a good time……and TMC I am VERY willing to bet you know my BFF because she is at every and any metal show….with exception to when she lived in Fla for a while. She sometimes promotes.
LOL for that matter, I used to work at L’Amour East.
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
by JW1970 on Nov 7, 2011 3:00 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I liked going to L'Amours East
No matter how many people thought it was terrible. The 80s were a fun time for music and Hockey in LI
by lostsin44 on Nov 7, 2011 3:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Another Dokken fan- nice! :)
I could bore you guys to death with pics lol.
The thing with the 80s hard rock/metal community is that our numbers are relatively finite… eventually I think we will all know each other lol.
I have a funny story about Dokken (kinda- also TS) from when I was a teacher.
I had a rolodex-type photo album on my desk- pics of me with friends, family, my BF at the time, and lots of pics with bands. My students knew I was “rock” but they were for the most part hip-hop and didnt know much about metal. When they would ask me, “You mean like Guns N Roses?” or “You like bands like Metallica?” I Was like yes, exactly. (Even though I dont particularly like GnR and at the time I was mad at Metallica lol) So anyway, I had a student who loved a few classic rock bands like the Who and stuff from his dad. He and I got along really well and Id let him and his friends have their lunch in my classroom sometimes because they hated the lunchroom. They would bring in CDs and Id let them play them, really nice kids.
Fast forward over the summer to the following school year. They are no longer in my science class, I have another group of students. But on the first day of school this kid hunts me down. I ask him how his summer went and he tells me “MsP! Im a metal head now!” Suddenly he loves Dokken, Twisted Sister, Savatage, etc. And he knows his shit! He must have spent the whole summer listening to music lol. Id still see him around (his new science classroom was not far from my room and hed stop by to chat) and he would say the funniest things. He would be telling me about someone he doesnt like for example, and he would say thigns like, “Why am I gonna listen to him? This guy doesnt even know who George Lynch is!” LOL!
(OK, last part lol)
He convinced his parents to take him to Great Adventure when Twisted sister was playing there and so he got to see them… which for him was a dream come true. He was singing along and some old guys (“old” lol- they were probably in their 30s) lifted him up and crowd surfed him towards the front of the stage. Dee wound up slapping him five when he saw him singing and after the song screamed out to him something like “Seeing a kid like you is the reason we’re here today!”. You dont understand how happy that made him! :)
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Nov 7, 2011 11:24 PM EST up reply actions
That is a very cool story
And like I said, I am VERY willing to bet you know my friend Lisa. She’s been everywhere in the name of Rock n Roll too. LOL
And now I hear some of the crap my kids listen to and just shake my head. At least my littlest man(10) prefers the parents music!
Actually, the youngest one is also the most open minded one. He actually asked for a PAP jersey for Christmas….and he is/was a Penguin fan! I think I might have a convert on my hands!
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
READ 'EM and WEEP 120 PLATES and counting!
OK VA is good -but no state beats Florida for their assortment of insanity that they call car “tags”…
http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/specialtytags/
land of ha ha ha you got an "Islanders" Tee shirt- what losers!! I turned and told ‘em in a very Jamaican way "You Rass-Bumbo Clat Smurf- go fishin with the sharks and be usin your kids as bait mon !"..F-C-K blue boy- all that’s missing is Double U…rags fans… I even hated them in Jah…(and it’s hard to hate anything in Jah!)
by CaribbeanIslanderFan on Nov 2, 2011 3:48 PM EDT reply actions
ah... i didn't scroll all the way down.
Yeah, it’s ridiculous. They may as well hand out blanks and sharpies and let you just draw your own.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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well....
They get 70-plus dollars for the plate, plus 50-plus more for the ‘vanity’….. so yeah, it’s crazy……… all the way to the bank. Of course I’ve had an FIU plate and a Share the Road plate, so I’m no stranger to paying fees to get what i want.
And for the record, if I could use Sharpie markers, they’d be orange and blue, bizzotch!!!
You know you're an Islanders fan when you hit refresh on LHH 12 times a day. In summer.
Remember, Florida has no state tax, they have to get their money from somewhere
"We can't get pushed around," Haley said. "What commentators say about us, that's their job. My job is to try and limit as many people who want to take liberties with our guys as possible."
by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Nov 7, 2011 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
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Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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