# Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965 "2023-11-11T02:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 107
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2121 "2025-12-02T04:45:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > AFAIK it doesn’t match the abbreviation of any degree It could be for an LLB, which is for a Bachelor in Law, an undergraduate degree. In the US it has become obsolete, replaced by JD, for _juris doctor_, the terminal law degree, as they say. It is still used in Britain and India. It pops up in my British murder mysteries occasionally. Whether some Miamisn aspired to the law and acquired a British or Indian prerequisite is far beyond my ken. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2122 "2025-12-02T12:37:54Z")
The plate was **LBB** not **LLB**. But good guess. When I saw it I thought of LLM, the Master of Laws degree and at first thought just what you did, that the plate meant the bachelor version of that. A second look showed the plate had double-B, not double-L. Thanks for playing though! Carrol Merrill will have a consolation prize waiting back at your seat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2123 "2025-12-02T18:29:41Z")
Today I saw **DLSTURF** on a shiny Range Rover. At first I thought “DL sturf”, with “sturf” being an alternative spelling for “stuff”. Then I recognized “turf” and thought it might be “DLS turf” or “DL’s turf” for some sort of landscaping biz. Turns out I was right: > **[Home - Dlsturfcourts](https://www.dlsturfcourts.com/)** > > At DLS Turf & Sport Courts, we specialize in crafting premium artificial grass solutions and custom-built sport courts. With expertise in design, The website doesn’t have a physical address, but the phone number is one of our local area codes, so decent bet it’s them. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2124 "2025-12-02T18:36:45Z")
Saw **BOYBY3** this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2125 "2025-12-02T23:15:18Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/b9iplnV.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/b9iplnV.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2126 "2025-12-03T00:48:37Z")
Pretty pic. What might it mean? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2127 "2025-12-03T12:43:47Z")
Wheelchair-bound South Park character named Timmy who says little more than his own name. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cTl762MuXyc/maxresdefault.jpg "South Park - The Best of Timmy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTl762MuXyc) ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2128 "2025-12-03T13:52:11Z")
On the way to work this morning: **WATCH AU**. A gold trader or someone recently retired? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2129 "2025-12-03T14:26:02Z")
I had a curiously one-dimensional haul in the parking lot at breakfast this morning. - **RAP⎵1** on the 5-character marine mammal booster plate. - **MSS⎵1** neatly centered on the standard FL plate. - **KROLE1⎵⎵** left justified on the the standard FL plate. Presumably just names and initials. Pretty boring. Boring cars too. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2130 "2025-12-04T02:24:47Z")
On the way home today, less clever for the message than the spelling: **MY T35LA** (on, yes, a Tesla SUV). ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2131 "2025-12-04T17:33:01Z")
**HAIR2DY4** The windows were too dirty to catch a good luck at the driver and their hair. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2132 "2025-12-05T03:02:06Z")
On a MA plate - **SOXRUL** , pretty self-explanatory. On a NH plate - **THEHECK** , which frankly, I’m surprised that was allowed. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2133 "2025-12-05T04:20:07Z")
**L8KDAYS**. I assume L8 = “late”, and DAYS is self explanatory, but I don’t get the K. Unless I’m wrong about the first part, and L8K is a word? Maybe L8K = “lake”, so “lake days”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2134 "2025-12-05T10:59:59Z")
IMO “lake days” is it. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2135 "2025-12-05T14:25:50Z")
I think Lake Days as well, but you know **MOMC4R** **URLOUD**! Actually the mom car wasn’t loud, but I am sure being an ICE car it is when compared to the EV with the URLOUD plate. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2136 "2025-12-05T18:09:15Z")
Decided I needed something different to wear to a Christmas party I have to go to and saw **MACY** in the Kohl’s parking lot. Would have been funnier if I was at Macy’s but what can you do? Then on the way home I saw a Dodge Charger being driven by a younger guy… with a license plate that read **POOKY**. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2137 "2025-12-05T20:32:45Z")
I just saw a family wagon with a 5-character child abuse booster plate that said **AGIOS**. I suppose that’s a close-enough spelling for “Adios” that was already taken. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2138 "2025-12-05T20:53:25Z")
This morning on a silver Tesla (model X, IIRC): **QKCILVR** YES, spelled that way. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2139 "2025-12-05T21:16:54Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > YES, spelled that way. Someone really wanted a “Quicksilver” plate, and had to go well down their list of increasingly-tortured spellings to get it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/2140 "2025-12-05T23:07:11Z")
> [@icon](#): > > Actually the mom car wasn’t loud, but I am sure being an ICE car it is when compared to the EV with the URLOUD plate. I know what you mean given the context, but these days when I see “ICE car” I think of something else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=108)