# 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:** 61
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1201 "2025-04-03T22:26:04Z")
I suppose it is possible that the license plate referred to children rather than themselves and their children, I did not see the occupants so it is hard to tell. **WE␣BUZZN** must really like the Volkswagen ID. Buzz they have in order to get that plate. And I am sure the driver with **4LOHA** likes Hawai’i given the stickers on their rear window in the shape of the islands. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1202 "2025-04-03T22:45:19Z")
> [@icon](#): > > **WE␣BUZZN** must really like the Volkswagen ID. Or maybe they like marijuana. Or booze. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1203 "2025-04-04T00:08:16Z")
Saw **EAT EGGS** today. They must think we’re all made of money… and I don’t like eggs! ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1204 "2025-04-04T03:13:05Z")
**BOOPGRAM** with a Betty Boop decal in the back window. Go Gramma? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1205 "2025-04-04T06:08:06Z")
Yes it is… [![](https://i.imgur.com/I7ZwyDU.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/I7ZwyDU.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/jk9JRQu.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/jk9JRQu.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1206 "2025-04-07T09:10:53Z")
I was passed by red Tesla that lived up to the **RDHOT␣EV** plate it had especially with the way it weaved in and out of traffic on the rain slick road. I saw another Tesla, this one parked, with the license plate **BL1TZ** and assuming that is not a recent plate, that certainly did not age well. I can’t remember what make **M1SILE** was nor if it lives up to its name since I saw it in the parking lot. I do think we could all use some **PC&LVE** and try not have a **BOOBOO**. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1207 "2025-04-10T12:12:25Z")
For your tits? [![](https://i.imgur.com/Dezv0z6.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Dezv0z6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1208 "2025-04-10T12:31:51Z")
I would read it as “for your thoughts”. Is there anything on the car that suggests the word “penny”? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1209 "2025-04-10T17:07:17Z")
That was my reaction too. Here’s a different take … Wisconsinites are famous for their teasing sense of dry humor. Maybe they mean the plate’s message is to be thought provoking. It’s “for (causing) your thoughts”. So meta. It’s thoughts all the way down. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1210 "2025-04-10T17:53:44Z")
GREEN BI = green be I [![](https://i.imgur.com/DRFUVha.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DRFUVha.jpeg) The owner used to have a Prius with plates GREEN IB. She now has GREEN BI on her Tesla. And her license plate frame says Wisconsin Badgers. No, she’s not bi. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1211 "2025-04-10T18:10:23Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I would read it as “for your thoughts”. Well that makes much more sense. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1212 "2025-04-10T19:14:22Z")
If that’s the correct reading, there’s a decent chance the car is owned by a lady who goes by “Penny”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1213 "2025-04-10T19:15:33Z")
… or that the plate was initially on a copper colored car. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1214 "2025-04-10T22:58:06Z")
Two matching tags. > **[476896678-10231820421111294-1818827545998598106-n hosted at ImgBB](https://ibb.co/7tM9CDgq)** > > Image 476896678-10231820421111294-1818827545998598106-n hosted in ImgBB ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1215 "2025-04-10T23:38:58Z")
**M0T0WN** on a Ford something or other in front of me in traffic this afternoon. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1216 "2025-04-10T23:46:07Z")
Nice; Iooked at the pix before seeing who posted and hoped it was you. The circumstances under which you can legally maintain car registration in two states with the same fact pattern of domiciles, etc., are few and far between. Or is this just a temporary transitional situation and soon you’ll have to re-register one of them in the other state? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1217 "2025-04-11T00:44:57Z")
Florida resident stationed in Georgia. So, yea, I can register in either or both states. I have to maintain Georgia insurance, though. I took advantage of this to make matching license plates 😃 ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1218 "2025-04-11T01:59:49Z")
I was under the impression that you’d retired / separated. Evidently I was mistaken. For sure, while active duty DoD there’s lots of opportunity to “reside” is two states simultaneously. BTDT got the OD t-shirt. Note I wasn’t trying to suggest you were doing something illicit. Just something interestingly out of the ordinary. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1219 "2025-04-11T02:26:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Note I wasn’t trying to suggest you were doing something illicit. I know. I didn’t take it like that at all. I thought it was pretty neat, so just did it as a novelty. It has an added benefit of making me a more courteous driver. Unfortunately, I haven’t retired yet. Two years left. I just returned to the states after 6 years in Europe. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1220 "2025-04-11T02:34:40Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Unfortunately, I haven’t retired yet. Two years left. I just returned to the states after 6 years in Europe. “It’s not just a job; it’s an adventure” applies to more than just the USN. Eventually we all get tired of adventuring quite that much. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=62)