Now I know I'm an old fart...
...I just got back from the license office where I finally picked up my Veteran plate.
(the number is, of course different than this sample)
Am I too young to be a "Veteran"? I know I'm "too young" to be in the Legion, at least to my own stereotypical view, but there I are anyway.
I have to say that I'm touched to see many provinces and states across North America adopting this trend.
So if you see a Veteran, give a honk and a wave.
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Thanks, Ma. :)
If it makes you feel better, I qualified for the Vet plate at the age of 21. So you're not an old fart....yet.
The qualification requirements up here were a little strange, and the Royal Canadian Legion was the approving authority for Vet plates. For a Reservist like me the qualification period was a little longer, however, it works nicely.
Its not quite like that. The requirement for retired/serving members was to have either 1095 aggregate days of full-time service (more of a challenge for most reservists here to obtain), and they later added the receipt of the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD) as eligibility criteria.
The picture is a representation of a sample plate. As for the actual plate layout, the sequence is:
(poppy symbol) (number) V (number)(number)(number)(number)
e.g. 9V9999
Lots of permutations with that one, Ma.
Md's officially a stalker now, wanting to know your license number...
She's got a thing for men in uniform, watchout Moss..
At some point, I'll post a picture of Mossy in his uniform.
Hubba.
Hubba.
Hubba.
However, I must admit, he looks far better OUT of his uniform.
(ltlme, you can start puking now..LOL).
-turn on math nerd-
figuring out the possible combinations is easy, it's just
10x10x10x10x10. Each digit could be 0-9, so possible numbers would go from 0v0000 to 9v9999, which is 100,000 possible combinations
So, if all of the veteran plates must have "v" in them, then there are a limit to how many vets will be able to get the plates.
that's why you use letters in license plate combos, because it dramatically increases the possible combinations.
If, for example, the third character in the veteran plates could be a-z, then there would be 2.6 million possible combinations, rather than 100,000.
-turn off math nerd -
Kal: Ontario is not above rollover of plates or adding a letter character. They figured that the eligibility pool was small enough that they could live with the restriction for a while. Many of those eligible will not apply for a plate.
On another note, Penny looked at your comment and the math and said, and I quote" Oh my god, math geekiness gets me SO *&^%$#@! hot. If he was here, boy, I'd just...."
Holee Crap, missed your comment Mossy..
Well, feel free to use my computation of possible combinations formula anytime.
(and that the only math I remember from high school, sorry to say...)
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