# 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:** 64
**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 21, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1261 "2025-04-21T00:59:01Z")
Which reminds me. I saw another one here recently. A Toyota Tundra pickup. Lotta decals advertising all and sundry; this person likes festooning their car. The plate was a standard FL plate reading **STLRS⎵R1**. The frame was from a local Toyota dealership, so no clue there. One thought is “Pittsburgh Steelers are number 1”. But there were no other Steeler decals, or colors, or anything. IME Steeler fans only come in one kind: waaay over da top! Dis was not dat. Any other ideas? ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1262 "2025-04-21T05:52:50Z")
Steelers run? ---
**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 22, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1263 "2025-04-22T00:14:07Z")
Saw **BROSKI** today. Not sure what to make of that one. ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1264 "2025-04-22T01:04:09Z")
Two today. One unremarkable for Long Island: **MS⎵MET**. But the other, on a white SUV: **SILMARIL**. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1265 "2025-04-22T01:08:25Z")
> [@Topologist](#): > > But the other, on a white SUV: **SILMARIL**. A few years back, I saw **MTHRNDR** (Mithrandir, the elves’ name for Gandalf). The car with those plates was, of course, gray. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1266 "2025-04-22T04:36:15Z")
So, lacking the upgrade, then. ---
**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 22, 2025, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1267 "2025-04-22T10:13:35Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > A few years back, I saw **MTHRNDR** I would’ve read that as Mother and Daughter or Mother and Doctor. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1268 "2025-04-23T05:23:24Z")
My hometown is a small town in Upstate New York, near the Tri-City area of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy (and we have another Doper here who currently lives in Schenectady). I grew up in Latham NY, because my dad was a professor at a small engineering school in Troy: RPI, or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is known academically for engineering. Lots of geeks go to school there. Including this one: [![](https://i.imgur.com/A1X8xJl.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/A1X8xJl.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/ROAhPo4.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ROAhPo4.jpeg) I saw that this morning, here near San Francisco. ---
**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 23, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1269 "2025-04-23T10:51:18Z")
RPI is also the common abbreviation for Raspberry Pi. That would’ve been my first guess anyways. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1270 "2025-04-23T13:04:34Z")
Interesting. It’s also for sports stat nerds: Rating Percentage Index. That’s what a web search on rpi turned up. Raspberry Pi didn’t come up but it’s probably buried somewhere in the search results. Maybe the guy is a sports stat geek. It’s funny how our own personal biases will, umm, bias what we observe. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1271 "2025-04-23T16:29:52Z")
I must confess that until your post, I had never heard of the Manual Gearbox Preservation Society. I checked out their website, and I am impressed with their mission! Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1272 "2025-04-23T18:19:22Z")
I too was ignorant of the MGPS.The things you learn at the Dope… I also checked out the website. I have ordered a decal. ---
**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 23, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1273 "2025-04-23T21:33:24Z")
Saw a Tesla Model Y with a standard FL plate background reading **CHANEL⎵X**. My original interpretation was he’s a musk fan and follows “channel X”, AKA the disinformation cesspool formerly known as Twitter. I now wonder whether they like perfume, and consider Chanel #10 to by twice as good as the traditional #5. ---
**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 23, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1274 "2025-04-23T23:29:06Z")
Saw **MAMART** today… another one I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Is it Ma-Mart or Mama RT? And **BBY BLU** on a blue Hyundai is a regular sight on my morning commute. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1275 "2025-04-24T14:40:22Z")
**ROUSSE** Couldn’t see in well enough to tell if the driver was a redhead, let alone French. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1276 "2025-04-25T03:07:20Z")
Not a custom license plate, but tonight I was behind a car with a license plate frame that read: SEDIMENTATION ENTHUSIASTS ARE ALLUVIAL FANS That’s such a nerdy reference even _I_ had to Google it before I got it. ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1277 "2025-04-25T16:24:38Z")
**TEHUTEE**? No idea what those plates could mean…? [![](https://i.imgur.com/MFBrZOU.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/MFBrZOU.jpg) A very sharp car, though. [![](https://i.imgur.com/DwAMWd8.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DwAMWd8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1278 "2025-04-25T16:37:01Z")
“Tehuti” is a form of the name of the Egyptian god usually transliterated as “Thoth”. ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1279 "2025-04-25T17:13:50Z")
I saw a 1991 Z28 Camaro. Real rare now, but sorta performant for its era. Standard FL plate with **BBB⎵BAD**. It didn’t have a plate frame that read “To The Bone”. But it should have. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1280 "2025-04-25T17:26:18Z")
Or they’re somebody who is very resentful from their encounter with the Better Business Bureau. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=65)