# 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:** 21
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/401 "2024-06-25T21:51:34Z")
[https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/proc/rs/rs-27.pdf](https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/proc/rs/rs-27.pdf) > When an application is processed in FRVIS using the letter “O”, it automatically converts to a 0 (zero). When a request for a personalized license plate contains the letter O, inform the customer that we DO NOT manufacture license plates with the letter O. We use the number 0 (zero) instead. Only process license plate configurations with the number 0 (zero). ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/402 "2024-06-25T22:57:27Z")
Whoa! I did not know that. Thank you!!! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/403 "2024-06-25T23:12:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Today I saw **Y GR0 UP**. > > The thing after the R is a zero. Somebody else must’ve beaten these folks to this idea and taken the “oh” for themselves. > > Considering the potential for oh/zero confusion, I’d sure hope my other-plate counterpart is at least as law-abiding as I am. It’d really suck to get arrested for a hit-and-run the other person did. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’ll bet your state doesn’t allow the letter O. California says the zero and Oh are the same character for license plates. Added, oh like in @Joey_P ’s state. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/404 "2024-06-25T23:34:24Z")
Spotted a random sedan today with **BLABLA**. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/405 "2024-06-26T00:37:56Z")
As a San Francisco Giants fan, I really liked seeing **BEAT LA.** [![](https://i.imgur.com/or3oKiH.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/or3oKiH.jpg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GVMfhrB.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/GVMfhrB.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8LakesSrfr7of9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gr8LakesSrfr7of9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8LakesSrfr7of9)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/406 "2024-06-26T05:13:54Z")
We were at South Illinois University in Carbondale for the total solar eclipse in April and saw paw prints EVERYWHERE. I now know what a Saluki is, ha ha. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/407 "2024-06-26T05:16:45Z")
**SNICE1** on a beautiful classic Datsun 2000. Yes, it’s a nice one! [![](https://i.imgur.com/POscBGg.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/POscBGg.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/NEo8olq.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/NEo8olq.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/WFh0I8g.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/WFh0I8g.jpeg) ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/408 "2024-06-26T22:19:16Z")
**AREYAN** [![](https://i.imgur.com/i0jfDC7.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/i0jfDC7.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/yxk5cTZ.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/yxk5cTZ.jpeg) Really? Aryan? _ **REALLY?** _ Spotted in Apr 2018, the picture isn’t great because the car was ahead of me and I couldn’t close the distance. I wanted to see what kind of people would put that on their car. Might as well put **NAZI LVR** or **MASTR R8C** or **LUV ADOLF** , right? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/409 "2024-06-26T22:22:40Z")
Googling “areyan” tells me it’s a name (first or last). Though maybe ancestry shouldn’t say “[What did your Areyan ancestors do for a living?](https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=areyan)” ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/410 "2024-06-26T22:32:20Z")
Wiki has a decent page on it. I reviewed it before posting. While it includes information like, > The Aryan race is an obsolete historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping. It also has, > By the 1930s, the concept had been associated with both **Nazism** and Nordicism, and used to support the white supremacist ideology of Aryanism that portrayed the **Aryan** **race** as a “ **master race** ”, with non-Aryans regarded as racially inferior (Untermensch, lit. ‘subhuman’) and an existential threat that was to be exterminated. In **Nazi Germany** , these ideas formed an essential part of the state ideology that led to the **Holocaust**. Bolding mine. ➜ [Aryan race - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race) ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/411 "2024-06-26T22:37:06Z")
**WE ❤ BABA** [![](https://i.imgur.com/xL3aMA6.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/xL3aMA6.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/xODPoUB.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/xODPoUB.jpeg) This one is special to me. My Russian grandmother, we called her Baba which is short for Babushka in Russian (grandmother). ---
**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:** [June 26, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/412 "2024-06-26T23:52:34Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Wiki has a decent page on it. I reviewed it before posting I think that’s different. Ancestry.ca has an entry for Areyan as a last name. It appears to be Kurdish or Armenian in origin. > **[Areyan Surname Meaning & Areyan Family History at Ancestry.ca®](https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=areyan)** > > Discover the meaning of the Areyan surname on Ancestry®. Find your family's origin in Canada, average life expectancy, most common occupation, and more. Here’s a Wikipedia name about an Armenian politician by that name: > **[Kamo Areyan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamo_Areyan)** > > Kamo Areyan (Armenian: Կամո Արեյան; born 20 November 1957) is an Armenian economist and politician. After serving as Deputy Mayor for 15 years, Areyan became Chief Advisor to the Mayor, first under Hayk Marutyan, then under Hrachya Sargsyan. Sargsyan stepped down in March 2023, leaving the position of mayor vacant.\[needs update\] Areyan is a member of the Republican Party of Armenia and served as party representative on the Yerevan City Council between 2013 and 2018. > Areyan was born on 20 Novem... ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/413 "2024-06-27T03:38:04Z")
Sure, there are other meanings of the word but it’s still an insensitive word to put on one’s car. If one’s last name was Fascist I wouldn’t put that on my license plate, would you? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/414 "2024-06-27T03:49:03Z")
2MY GRPA on a beautiful 1963 Ford Thunderbird. This car is beautiful. My green Outback is parked behind it [![](https://i.imgur.com/3OTTOjt.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/3OTTOjt.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/qddAfDA.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/qddAfDA.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/MxYNCFe.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/MxYNCFe.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:** [June 27, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/415 "2024-06-27T10:18:26Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Sure, there are other meanings of the word but it’s still an insensitive word to put on one’s car. > > If one’s last name was Fascist I wouldn’t put that on my license plate, would you? Yeah. One of the elderly gents at my condo was named Adolph. Given the timing and place of his birth I have little doubt that The Other Adolph was his namesake. He was truly a delightful guy. But, wisely, he did not have a personalized plate. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/416 "2024-06-27T12:57:00Z")
**2010 SFG** The 2010 San Francisco Giants, the first year they won the World Series after moving from New York in 1958. This one is mine. After game 2 in that series the Giants had taken a 2-0 series lead. With the pitching staff they had there was no way they were going to lose 4 of the next 5 games, so I ordered this plate to put on my wife’s car. I already had a special plate on my car. I was hoping to not jinx the baseball gods, especially after the painful 2002 World Series. This championship was inevitable. The Giants won the series, 4 games to 1. [![](https://i.imgur.com/RuGmkmK.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/RuGmkmK.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/jimMxDy.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/jimMxDy.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/417 "2024-06-27T15:03:28Z")
Just a couple of days ago, I saw a car with NYGNTS1. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/418 "2024-06-27T15:58:32Z")
Yesterday I saw a car in KC with the Missouri plate of URAWSUM. I agreed with the message and accepted the compliment. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/419 "2024-06-27T18:09:00Z")
Just saw “SADFAM”. Sounds like someone needs a hug from Stuart Smalley. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/420 "2024-06-27T18:16:40Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Sure, there are other meanings of the word but it’s still an insensitive word to put on one’s car. But it’s not the same word. It’s a different number of letters, the additional letter is nowhere in “aryan”, and when I see it I see three syllables, though I don’t know how it’s pronounced. I mean, I can see how you get there. But I wouldn’t have gotten there just from seeing the plate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=22)