The Tournament of Roses has their own license plates?!?

[MotionMan]

Apparently so, and it looks like it is exempt from licensing fees, too (no tags).

I have lived in California my whole life and Southern California since 1986 and I never knew this.

Did anyone else know this?

(How do I rotate these?)

MotionMan

 

[ViviTheMage]

What is that?

 

[Anubis]

clue the rest of us in on what the fuck the Tournament of Roses is

 

[MotionMan]

What is that?

clue the rest of us in on what the fuck the Tournament of Roses is

Yeah, Google comes up totally blank for me, too.



MotionMan

 

[Anubis]

when you make a post complaining or asking about something the readers of that thread should not have to turn to google to figure out WTF you are talking about. YOU should be providing all of that information to us in the OP

 

[MotionMan]

when you make a post complaining or asking about something the readers of that thread should not have to turn to google to figure out WTF you are talking about. YOU should be providing all of that information to us in the OP

I do not want people who do not know what the Tournament of Roses is to comment in the thread anyway, so it kinda works out.



MotionMan

 

[ViviTheMage]

I do not want people who do not know what the Tournament of Roses is to comment in the thread anyway, so it kinda works out.



MotionMan

You'll be lucky to get 1-2 replies, and it'll get buried, BUT OK.

 

[MotionMan]

You'll be lucky to get 1-2 replies, and it'll get buried, BUT OK.

So no one outside of Southern California knows what the Tournament of Roses is?

We really are going to hell in a hand-basket.

MotionMan

 

[Anubis]

the War of the Roses is a movie

does that count?

 

[ViviTheMage]

If you called it Rose Bowl, i'd know what this thread is about, but Tournament of Roses...I had no idea.

 

[MotionMan]

No one watches the Rose Parade? They talk about the "Tournament of Roses" about 4,000 times during the parade.

Wow.

MotionMan

 

[ViviTheMage]

yeh ...

/crickets

 

[coxmaster]

Has anybody watched the rose bowl, or rose parade before the game? Thats the tournament of roses..

I thought that was pretty obvious.

Edit: Dammit, you beat me Atleast I knew what it was

 

[quikah]

I found this http://nickkanaya.net/SAMPLE-CA2.html (scroll to bottom)

Doesn't indicate wether it is exempt from licensing though. It does seem to imply that these are only used during the parade though, so I wonder if that plate is not supposed to be used any other time (which would make no licensing fee reasonable).

 

[BoomerD]

I'm sure they're a "qualified non-profit organization" which should make them exempt from many licensing fees, but I didn't realize they could also get personalized plates exempted. Since they're not a "government agency," they don't get "E" plates.


edit...good find. Explains part of it. I suppose they're piggy-backing on the "parade vehicle" part of that.

 

[destrekor]

well, as per the actual topic of the thread:
I had no idea they had their own plates.
But what is, exactly, they? The officials? Management or something?

As for the Tournament of Roses...
how the hell does anybody who remotely knows about college football, not know what the ToR is?
Then again, I guess it kind of makes sense... the Rose Bowl has essentially stood as a Big Ten v. Pac 10 matchup, so if you care not for either of those divisions, you know of the Rose Bowl simply because it is talked about ... and may perhaps watch it if big teams are facing each other, but I guess it stops there.

Rose Bowl, for us here in Ohio... I imagine there are even quite a few loons who, if prompted with Tournament of Roses, would probably look at you with blank, dull eyes... but I doubt they are anything but a small minority.

 

[zerocool84]

Tournament of Roses Parade??? It's on every New Years day people.

 

[TrevorH]

I realize this is quite a while after the original post, but I thought I'd add this information for clarification.

Each year, Honda (or whichever auto manufacturer is the official sponsor that year) delivers a large fleet of vehicles for use by Tournament of Roses officials and select volunteers. They are delivered in late November or early December, and are returned in early January. As the vehicles are only for "official" T of R business, you will usually only see them in or near Pasadena.

 

[John Connor]

OMFG! This country is going to hell! No one knows what the Tournament of Roses is? FFS!

On New Years Day turn on NBC when you wake the fuck up!

OP, I used to live in Cali. and never heard of those plates.

Edit - Didn't see post age. Jebus! Oo

 

[Howard]

OMFG! This country is going to hell! No one knows what the Tournament of Roses is? FFS!

On New Years Day turn on NBC when you wake the fuck up!

OP, I used to live in Cali. and never heard of those plates.

Who the fuck cares?

 

[John Connor]

I care!

 

[destrekor]

nm - didn't see necro - and I already responded to the original WTF nature of the thread anyway. lol

 

[Anubis]

Tournament of Roses Parade??? It's on every New Years day people.

i don't watch parades, waste of time

 

[destrekor]

i don't watch parades, waste of time

I don't either - I still know of that particular one, and I know it and the Rose Bowl Game are linked.