DAILY DIRT: Those creative personal plates continue to be spotted

March 6, 2025 | By Steve Eighinger, Muddy River News Minister of Culture and Doctor of Love

These are some plates that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has banned.

Daily Dirt for Thursday, March 6, 2025

There was strong support for BLAH to be the new No. 1, but CAMO JOE lives to reign another week … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,221 of The Daily Dirt.

1. The changes are coming fast and furious.

The Great Plate Debate IV has really started to heat up this month. While CAMO JOE held on to its gold medal position, we have new entries in the silver (BLAH) and bronze (1 OL TXN) positions. This is shaping up to be a great year when it comes to the most creative personal license plates across West-Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri.

“I think the recent warm weather has seen more cars back on the road more often,” reasons Regis “Smoky” Burgess, one of the members of The Daily Dirt Board of Control, which governs the weekly license-plate selections. “We’ve been doing this now for four years and it amazes me how many of these great license plates we still come across.”

If you’d like to help the process, feel free to to email and text us with the creative plate(s) you have spotted, with a picture if possible.

The current standings:

Gold medal: CAMO JOE

Silver medal: BLAH

Bronze medal: 1 OL TXN

The best o’ the rest from the past week:

SCRIBE 5
DBL EGL
SRV ALL 2
K BEAR 6
BONES 3
15 DINK
QCY 1
CARS 4
CWWW OO

2. Did you know (Part 295)

That the fastest-growing nail is generally on the middle finger.
That nails on the dominant hand tend to grow the fastest.
That mosquitoes actually have 47 tiny (obviously) teeth that help them chew through skin.
That identical twins do not have the same fingerprints.
That “alektorophobia” is an extreme fear of chickens or roosters.

3. The best of this week’s “Found on Facebook”

“A chicken crossed the road and met James Bond. The chicken said, ‘What’s your name?’ He replied, ‘Bond, James Bond. What’s yours?’ The bird said, ‘Ken, Chick Ken.'”
“Two fish are swimming in a lake. One of them hits a cement wall and says, ‘Dam!'”
“I’d love to go for a run, but then I’d have to, you know … run.”
“The only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.”
“A cement mixer has collided with a prison van. Motorists are advised to look for 16 hardened criminals.”

Steve Thought O’ The Day — Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that Carly Simon is approaching her 82nd birthday?