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Woody
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| My new personalized plate
It will help if you know French (I like to keep 'em guessing)
SNSOUC
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4x4abc
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Vehicle(s): 02 G500
| RE: My new personalized plate
now that's easy: Sanssouci, summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia at Potsdam, just outside Berlin.
French for "carefree". My translation: "don't worry, be happy"
Good plate for a G |
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DUTCH
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Date registered: Apr 2006
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| RE: My new personalized plate
woody - 6/12/2007 4:19 PM
It will help if you know French (I like to keep 'em guessing)
SNSOUC
Answer to come later...
On a German car?!??!! 
I think Big Blue will be highly insulted. |
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Woody
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Yeah, but Keine Problem => KINPRB didn't seem right somehow ("problem kin" "cousin trouble", etc.) besides, "Sans Soucie" also happens to be the phrase over the doorway to Jerry Garcia's home. "No Problem"
Nice job, Harald! I didn't know about the Summer Palace bit. At least IT is IN Germany! A connection, after all. |
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4x4abc
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Vehicle(s): 02 G500
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Yup, and no other car could be more Prussian than the G - strong, tall, exact, ready, disciplined, duty, durable. And who cares in what language. Are we into semi racism again? French = bad? Not on this forum. Time to make peace. And its something you have to make - it does no just happen. |
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4x4abc
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Vehicle(s): 02 G500
| Sans souci
reminds me - thanks to Disney now even average people know that "hakuna matata" means no problem. So far so good.
Hakuna means "no" - matata means "woman talks".
So, as long as women dont gossip around, life is good. No problem.
OK OK - way off topic. Lets not be too Prussian here. |
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Maxwell Smart
Date registered: Dec 1899
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4x4abc - 6/12/2007 9:44 PM
now that's easy: Sanssouci, summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia at Potsdam, just outside Berlin.
French for "carefree". My translation: "don't worry, be happy"
Good plate for a G
Yup that would have been my vote too. Based on Versailles - its absolutely stunning and very underrated. Actually I would say that in many aspects its far superior. |
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Woody
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Date registered: Feb 2007
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So, extrapolating here...
The "better" palace is near Berlin and it is because they don't allow women? 
Actually I've only been to Versailles, but I couldn't help being impressed.
Didn't this G originate in Austria? Now it is in America, land of the mutts!  |
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Maxwell Smart
Date registered: Dec 1899
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For Schloß Sanssouci also check wikipedia
As for Hakuna Matata I think it may depend on dialect. A Kenyan friend translated it as "no concerns" - never mentioned the woman problem.... But to get back on topic I think its a great reg - after all it is a G its on... so no worries but if it was a landrover it was on I would be worried. |
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Woody
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Date registered: Feb 2007
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Thank you Maxwell!
We once owned a Discovery but it met an untimely demise on a soft gravel road. It seemed to roll easily. I vowed never again.
The SNSOUC license plate has been on my mind for years waiting for a worthy vehicle! |
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4x4abc
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Vehicle(s): 02 G500
| Re: My new personalized plate
so you have only 6 digits available in Oregon? CA has 7 |
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Woody
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Date registered: Feb 2007
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| RE: My new personalized plate
Yep, only 6 allowed in Oregon, even on the Crater Lake and Salmon Preservation plates. One has to be creative when choosing personal plates, but they luckily don't include the smaller letters on the left side.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frenzal_Rhomb_-_Sans_Souci.jpg |
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Woody
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My music collection is a little low on Australian Punk |
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460332
Date registered: Apr 2006
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Maxwell Smart - 6/12/2007 4:42 PM
Yup that would have been my vote too. Based on Versailles - its absolutely stunning and very underrated. Actually I would say that in many aspects its far superior.
As with the G details we also have to be right with history too, ;o)
Versailles was planned from mid 1650, so the architecture is barock,
The Sanssouci is rococo, from mid 1700, i.e. not based on Versailles. |
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Maxwell Smart
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460332 - 6/13/2007 11:31 PM
Maxwell Smart - 6/12/2007 4:42 PM
Yup that would have been my vote too. Based on Versailles - its absolutely stunning and very underrated. Actually I would say that in many aspects its far superior.
As with the G details we also have to be right with history too, ;o )
Versailles was planned from mid 1650, so the architecture is barock,
The Sanssouci is rococo, from mid 1700, i.e. not based on Versailles.
True the main palace in Rocco but the Neue Palais is Baroque and so are so are the terrace gardens. Both influenced by Versailles. |
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