When I finally get my Triumph

[gridlore]

I already know what my license plate is going to be.

UK FE C

20 geek points to the first person to decipher it, and get both meanings.

Comments

I see

[(Anonymous)]

United Kingdom, Iron, Carbon. "Both meanings" loses me.

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

Something about "British Iron", but the 'C' has me stumped unless you're simply trying for "ironic".

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

British Iron Carbon?

*unlurk*

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

British Steel - steel being iron (Fe) with high carbon (C) content. Also an album by Manowar.

*lurk*

Correction

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

"British Steel" was by Judas Priest. Manowar had "Hail to England".

Oops.

Re: Correction

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Bingo! Your twenty geek points will be delivered by a team of crack Rob Halford impersonators within the next millennium!

Re: Correction

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

Re: Correction

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

20 points? And here I was thinking FE C came to 254 10 or UK 15 14 "see", whatever that means. The latter sounds more like a reference to shoe sizes, hardly geek material. 2's compliment? -127 10. Also nonsence.

Re: Correction

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Ten points each for Heavy Metal and Science geekery.

Tesla, AC/DC, Electric Light Orchestra

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

Heavy Metal and Science geekery

Yeah, in my household sailingguy was the metals geek and my heavy metal background is a bit like that of the unadultered sponge referenced in your icon.

(But less absorbantly so.)

Iron Spongebob Maiden. Nice.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

It also works out rather nicely as a slightly tweaked "Feck You." Or maybe that's an indication of my mood/blood sugar levels.

[delta-november.livejournal.com]

So I guess my Land Rover plate should read UK AL MG? The old ones have aluminium-magnesium alloy bodies.

Re: Correction

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

There may be a third meaning you don't want: UK FE C could be read as "UK Fee See" which brings to mind "British lump of shit", if taken from the POV of a suitably xenophobic Harley fanatic.

(not that I'd agree with 'em, mind you; I ride a battered old Eurobike myself...)

Incidentally, if you wander over to here (http://www.archive.org/details/mammals2005-03-11.flac16) there's a great Bluegrass-influenced version of Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.