# 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:** 11
**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:** [January 20, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/201 "2024-01-20T00:09:45Z")
Tonight I saw E1111000. It took me a bit to figure out the meaning, and by then it was gone, but I am hoping it was a Toyota Corolla. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/202 "2024-01-20T00:16:01Z")
Unless, upon further review, it was E111100. Which wikipedia tells me might correspond to a BMW. As I said, only a quick look. But I bet it was one or the other. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/203 "2024-01-21T21:16:37Z")
Not ice, Internal Combustion Engine Bad ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/204 "2024-01-21T21:57:48Z")
OK, I’ve wracked (or is that racked?) my brain, but I’m not getting it. E111100? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/205 "2024-01-21T23:14:53Z")
Yesterday, in Santa Fe, I saw: _MA SQ_ Being a science-savvy area, I couldn’t figure out if it was a play on Force (mass x acceleration), Kinetic Energy (1/2 mass velocity^2) or just someone wanting to say “Mama.” Tripler I’m probably overthinkin’ this, as usual. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/206 "2024-01-23T20:11:50Z")
Binary. 1=32 1=16 1=8 1=4 0=0 0=0 Total: 60 There is apparently a car called the BMW E60. Or 1=64 1=32 1=16 1=8 0=0 0=0 0=0 Total: 120. There is a car called the Corolla E120. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/207 "2024-01-23T20:22:43Z")
Thanks for the explanation. (I’ll sleep better now. 🕶) ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/208 "2024-01-23T20:23:46Z")
This is my plate (yes, a new one has been ordered). [[Album] License plate ![](https://i.imgur.com/bmRKb83.jpeg?fb "License plate") ](https://imgur.com/a/y9Mq95a) ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/209 "2024-01-23T22:14:51Z")
> [@MonkeysBrother](#): > > Thanks for the explanation. (I’ll sleep better now. 🕶) In general BMW labels their generations of product lines with a letter and a 2-digit number. Every few years when they go to a significantly new engine or body style, that gets the series a new number. > **[BMW 5 Series (E60)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_5_Series_(E60))** > > The fifth generation of the BMW 5 Series executive cars consists of the BMW E60 (sedan version) and BMW E61 (wagon version, marketed as 'Touring'). The E60/E61 generation was produced by BMW from 2003 to 2010 and is often collectively referred to as the E60. > The E60 generation introduced various new electronic features, including the iDrive infotainment system, head-up display, active cruise control, active steering, adaptive headlights, night vision, lane departure warning and voice control. ... Today here in FL I saw a New York plate with **TUTIPAZO**. Maybe it’s their name or maybe it’s a word in Italian (?). Google is uninformative: it’s totally decoyed that “Italian” means I’m looking for a restaurant, and the word “Tutipazo” includes p, z, and a, therefore I’m trying to find a pizza parlor. Sheesh google; whatever happened to answering what I asked, not just selling me what you guess I typoed? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/210 "2024-01-23T22:48:05Z")
Google translates “tutti pazzo” as “all crazy”. “totally nuts”. That was the only thing I could come up with. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/211 "2024-01-23T23:20:08Z")
That’s probably exactly it. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/212 "2024-01-24T01:07:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Today here in FL I saw a New York plate with **TUTIPAZO**. Maybe it’s their name or maybe it’s a word in Italian (?). another take: spanish for: tu tipazo tipo = guy, lad, man tipazo = big/great guy/l/m tu = your so your big guy / your man / your honk ---
**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:** [January 28, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/213 "2024-01-28T12:28:21Z")
Yesterday I saw a Rolls Royce. Which isn’t so rare around here. But this one was driving aggressively; usually they’re sedate to the point of being obstacles to traffic. Curious, I followed along until I could catch up while he waited at a light. New Jersey plates (I’m in Florida). It said **PRO2CER**. I managed to get alongside the car and saw a 40-something guy with a power haircut alone in the car talking into space. Presumably on the phone doing Something Important. I wonder if that’s a showbiz type “producer”, a “I’m a producer, unlike you loser consumers”, or maybe “producer” is codespeak in the finance industry for the guy who creates outsized returns or lands outsized clients. In any case this guy, his driving, and his car totally exuded "I’m important and the rest of you are _not_. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/214 "2024-01-30T03:01:58Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I ordered my custom vanity plate this week. Decided to nix the Simpsons reference and go with something a bit more refined: a Monty Python reference. I had to order a custom plate frame to really make it work. So my custom license plate frames, bought off of Amazon, arrived from some factory in China a week or so ago. Since then I’ve been waiting impatiently – well, moreso than I was – for my plates to arrive. The design of the plates I ordered was Oregon’s new “Pollinator Paradise” or bee plate rather than the standard tree plate. [Stupid Discourse won’t let me quote everyone’s actual guesses. @chappachula @LSLGuy @purplehorseshoe @Paintcharge @DesertDog @Ignatz @carnut] drumroll… [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/utpKkfB.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/AzHsiwU) [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/w8qTTiH.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/s54KjmR) I really should’ve known that you guys would’ve guessed it quickly, especially **LSLGuy** who nailed it on the first try, **Paintcharge,** and **chappachula** who both noodled out the rest, sorta. The plate simply doesn’t work without the frame. I suppose the frame would work without the plate, but where’s the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/215 "2024-01-30T03:44:15Z")
Saw one today: RISEUP Either some sort of Christian eschatology, or a Marxist revolution. Couldn’t tell which. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/216 "2024-01-30T03:46:27Z")
I saw one-BLUE U 2 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/217 "2024-01-30T04:04:20Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > So my custom license plate frames, bought off of Amazon, arrived from some factory in China a week or so ago. I would have laughed my ass off had they corrected the Latin. “Stupid Americans.” ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/218 "2024-01-30T12:26:08Z")
@Lancia that’s a damned fine plate & frame. Color me jealous of your wit. > [@Lancia](#): > > [Stupid Discourse won’t let me quote everyone’s actual guesses. @chappachula @LSLGuy @purplehorseshoe @Paintcharge @DesertDog @Ignatz @carnut] Here you go … > [@chappachula](#): > > Okay , fellow Dopers…let’s play a game!!! > @Lancia , come on, give us a hint so we can get started! > Tell us approx. which scene from Life of Brian you chose, and give us a clue about your plate,(maybe ,say, the first letter). > > Then we Dopers, the smartest people on earth, will play "Guess Lancia’s license plate\*. > > The winner gets bragging rights…😄 > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’ll play first … I’ll go with some combination of **JPF** & **PFJ**. So **JPF PFJ** or **PFJ JPF**. If I’m only allowed one entry, the former is my first choice. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Maybe **NTDDYT** or is “I’m not dead, yet!” from a different Monty Python? > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Something from the scene where the centurion corrects the grammar? > > I’m on my phone, so looking up details is a pain. > [@chappachula](#): > > Then I’m gonna guess that it’s the scene where he writes “Roman people they are going house”, and the guard corrects it to “Romans go home” > But how you make a 6-letter license plate out of that, I dunno. > [@DesertDog](#): > > Latin instructors on this side of the pond have the same reputation. Must be the language. > > My guess is **SPLTTR** > [@chappachula](#): > > I like this !!! > And it just occurred to me that a Python fan could create an even funnier plate, and probably get away with it (in America, probably not in England): BIGGUS > > But neither of these really fits our clue that Lancia is an English teacher. > [@DesertDog](#): > > Well, maybe he’s still sore about the great vowel shift. > [@Ignatz](#): > > Ninja’d by an hour. I vote for BIGGUS. > [@carnut](#): > > BWYAN > [@chappachula](#): > > Oops…I should have said “bwagging > rights” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/219 "2024-01-30T15:59:30Z")
But are you with the People’s Front of Judea, or the Populist Front of Judea? x x x x x x x x x x x x (Yes, I know that it was “Judean Populist Front”, but the implication was that various splitters would eventually use any and every possible variation.) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/220 "2024-02-05T01:22:08Z")
Maine stopped censoring vanity plates in 2015 and Katie, bar the doors! About 8 years later, the double and single entendres got censored after **LUVTOFU** came on line. So someone loves tofu! _American Road Magazine_, Winter 2023 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=12)