The Jeep seven-slot grille is perhaps one of the most valuable things that Stellantis owns, if we don’t count the legendary (and possibly cursed) Peugeot Bébé Diamond. And while this Jeep face (which was actually designed by Ford) is jealously guarded by Jeep themselves, there are plenty of people who seek to alter the faces of their Jeeps, usually in ridiculous ways. One Jeep face/grille modification I saw recently on ex-Twitter, though, was a bit different. Because it involved Ohio.
Yes, Ohio! This was really a very simple modification, using what I believe to be gaffer’s tape and some cleverness to transform the seven slots of the Jeep grille into the letters that form the word OHIO.
For whatever reason, it’s getting a fair amount of guff in the comments, but I have no idea why. I mean, they do build Jeeps in Toledo, Ohio, after all. And, come on, it’s pretty clever:
Why is this the “worst Jeep ever?” Is this just anti-Ohioism? I can think of plenty of worse Jeeps: a Compass with a swastika on the hood, or a Renegade with a hood made of pressed feces, or a CJ-5 filled with rancid clam salad. This can’t be the worst Jeep ever.
More importantly, the simple transformation of those seven slots into the word OHIO got me thinking: using the same simple methods (horizontal black bands), how many other words can one make from the seven slots of a Jeep grille? Let’s see what we can do!
The set of letters you can make from these slots with horizontal bars isn’t huge. I think it’s just A, O, H, I, U, M, N, W, and, if we’re willing to be a bit flexible in letterforms, B and D. That’s not a lot. But it’s enough for these words:
HUM! A nice, musical word.
Okay, so this one could be either HIND or HINO, depending on how you want to interpret that last character. I like HINO because then it’s like you rebadged your Jeep to be a Hino truck! 
In this one, that last character I think should be read as a D, for BIND. You could tell people you’re in a bind, when you’re in your car! What a jape!
If your heritage hails from Hokkaido, Japan, maybe you could proclaim it proudly by spelling out AINU?
HAW can refer to many things: the third eyelid found on many animals, half of Nelson Muntz’ laugh, or the river that runs through Saxapahaw, North Carolina.
Feeling sad? Want to drive a Wahmbulance? A big WAH on your grille will help!
BUM! This can either be referring to buttocks or a colloquialism for a vagrant, used in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
Again, here I suggest the last character be read as a D, for MUD. Good for off-roaders.
MOO. Let the cows know you speak their language!
I’m sure there must be more I’m missing, so those of you up to some good word game challenge, give it a try! It’s not Wordle, but hey, take what you can get, right?
“Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks!”
not enough slots for me to spell BOOB unfortunately
BOO.
Is another word you could do
IDK, the Ohio Jeep has the opposite of Ohio rizz or whatever the kids are saying. Sigma rizz or whatever, I guess. Taking a skibidi toiletmobile and making it funny.
(Hello, fellow kids? Am I doing this right? All I know is that Ohio somehow means lame to The Youths now.)
Always has been
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Ok just imagine those question marks as an emoji version of the meme
This looks like an opportunity for Matt Parker to write horrifically inefficient python script to brute-force all the possible options and give us a definitive answer about every possible word.
I like HUM, because that particular Jeep is approximately half a HUMMER.
I like WAH as a guitarist, as that’s a guitar effect (think about the intro to Voodoo Child). Though, with a white car, I might go MOO and then complete the aesthetic with black spots. Instead of truck nuts I would have a pink truck udder.
Please do this.
If you want to go ’90s retro, and could scrounge up some body-colored tape. you could spell out “NOT!”
A few nights ago, I was heading north on the Southfield Freeway, Metro Detroit’s own Autobahn, when I wound up behind a late model Mustang with these taillights
https://mustangattitude.com/mustang/2013/2013_00060_04.jpg
They had altered them in a similar fashion, so the outer light rings mostly spelled
LOL RUN
As much as I hate sportsball, I can’t believe that I’m the only commenter to guess that the OP may be a Michigan fan?
Not being from the Midwest I did not realize that everyone is solely invested in college sports. They’d rather hate and berate other states around them than …. anything else. Now I live in Ohio and they can’t even be bothered to utter the name of ‘that state up North’ – they cross the letter M out of their internet posts or omit it completely.
It feels like a lot of work for something completely meaningless.
I just don’t get it.
Also in Ohio – the State, not the slang – and I’m only aware of it because of occasional good-natured rivalry among co-workers.
All things are meaningless until people give them meaning
I’m a Michigan resident with no interest whatsoever in college sports.
That said, fuck Ohio. It’s pasty flat hell hole with weird food, boring people, low speed limits, and no redeeming qualities. Hell, they made an institution for rock’n’roll – talk about missing the point. Why do you think so many of the Apollo astronauts were Ohioans? They needed to get as far away as possible!
Also, just so we’re clear that college sports are, y’know, just an ancillary new-in-time augmentation to the interstate hate, Michigan and Ohio fought a literal war in the 19th century. Which Michigan WON.
Tl;DR, Ohio sucks.
Oh, harsh. Let’s just agree to hate Cleveland and leave it at that.
I get a chuckle out of this having just learned from my 14 year-old that “Ohio” is slang for “boring”, and one of those phrases, like “rizz”, “skibbidy toilet” and “sigma” that the youth use. Me having been born in Ohio is of great amusement to my daughter and her friends at the moment.
My 10 years old told me don’t be Ohio and I screamed what do you mean?! I know is something awful lol
I heard them refer to some kid as the “President of Ohio”. I get a chuckle out of all of this because I’ve been declared the “cool dad” by the collective. Not because I do anything lax or allow them to do whatever they want, but because my level of maturity seems to be sympatico with teenagers.
“You’re livin’ in your own private Ohio…”