# 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:** 80
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1581 "2025-07-24T03:09:09Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I know Reiki as a woman’s name and a type of pottery glazing. The 77 was a little mystifying until I got a good look at the driver. Who was driving in the right lane of a boulevard at 20mph below the speed limit. Reiki is also a woo-woo ‘natural’ healing practice. That would fit in with being ancient and driving 20 below the speed limit-they didn’t wantvyo alarm their chakras. … Reiki is a Japanese healing technique that uses gentle touch to transfer “universal life force energy” and promote relaxation, stress reduction, and healing. Practitioners believe this energy flow can help balance the body’s energy centers ([chakras](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1051US1051&hl=en-US&cs=0&sca_esv=28fff17e3de8b0c6&sxsrf=AE3TifMeGqDb0UpgOoULxAWzQxo7aYVbSQ%3A1753326182005&q=chakras&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXy9WBwdSOAxW_SDABHdbIO_0QxccNegQIBhAB&mstk=AUtExfB4WDxJ8M_QFgMFu8qZdZQc-J21cTwO31ptQkYkUtNNE1J98dwL3xTv4URIv9sa_1XZYW-DuIbisdVqBeg1qfkpiyQs7kuM9vni7lhQW7hXrwfE0epNeEBjln77YXPEeyrTpp6b53X7K2pm_1ki6Ryt1u7CnfNQItwx-vuUGTkHY_U&csui=3)) and facilitate the body’s natural healing processes.… I’m usually more accepting of alternative healing but I spent several years nursing a woman who wanted to try reiki first to treat her cancer, because it was ‘natural’. Death is natural too and that is the only change in her life force she gained through reiki. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1582 "2025-07-24T18:51:09Z")
This morning I saw **CV⎵⎵⎵16**. The driver was a vigorous-looking mid-late 70s guy w short white hair. I suspect CV-16 means > **[USS Lexington (CV-16)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-16))** > > USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built during World War II for the United States Navy. Originally intended to be named Cabot, the new aircraft carrier was renamed while under construction to commemorate the recently lost USS Lexington (CV-2), becoming the sixth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name in honor of the Battle of Lexington. > Lexington was commissioned in February 1943 and saw extensive service through the Pacific War. For much of her service, she act... Which he probably served aboard during its second period of active duty from 1955 to 1991. He did not look nearly old enough to have served aboard during the ship’s first life from 1943-1947. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1583 "2025-07-24T23:36:43Z")
This is what I thought of after the fact… maybe they teach adults to swim? I dunno… Saw **GOBUCKZ** in the parking garage at work today. I’m pretty sure it’s one of my co-workers who is a big Ohio State fan. The truck had an Ohio State license plate border. We share the parking garage with a couple of small offices and an apartment building but 75% of the cars in the garage are my co-workers. So when I see a custom plate in the garage I try to figure out who it belongs to. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1584 "2025-07-25T01:18:59Z")
I was behind a Suburban with **WHYNOT4** for a big chunk of my drive home tonight. I wonder what happened to the previous 3. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1585 "2025-07-25T04:09:36Z")
I suspect that’s a reference to them having 4 of something. Probably children or dogs. So when people say things like “_Four?_ Why so many?” they’ve got their comeback ready: “Why not four?” ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1586 "2025-07-26T17:25:50Z")
Saw **FNLVNG** on a bright blue Jeep in the grocery store parking lot. “Fun Living” I assumed. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1587 "2025-07-26T17:30:15Z")
Final Vengeance. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1588 "2025-07-26T20:53:51Z")
Why can’t it be both? 😁 ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1589 "2025-07-26T20:55:53Z")
Fine Living is the Final Vengeance. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 26, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1590 "2025-07-26T21:25:19Z")
F’N LoViNG ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1591 "2025-07-27T03:00:39Z")
Fine Natives of Las Vegas Navel Gazing. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1592 "2025-07-27T12:48:19Z")
Yesterday I saw 2 WRSHP U, which I would’ve assumed was a religious thing, but it was on a military plate, so maybe it was “warship” and not “worship” And this Porsche that says SLVFOX [![](https://i.imgur.com/XdNuhkH.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/XdNuhkH.jpeg) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1593 "2025-07-27T16:57:03Z")
Y’all crack me up 🤣 I had a three-fer this morning while out running errands. **PRIMEAU** while on my way out. That’s the name of a player in our local minor league hockey team’s Hall of Fame. He’s deceased but he could still have family in the area. That’s where my mind went anyways, could be something completely unrelated. **SOUPART** in the Lowe’s parking lot. Not sure what to make of that. **RB BUSH** on the way home. A Reggie Bush fan? Or just someone’s name? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1594 "2025-07-27T17:01:22Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > the Lowe’s parking lot. Not sure what to make of that. SOU **PARK** was already taken? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1595 "2025-07-27T19:33:35Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > **SOUPART** in the Lowe’s parking lot. Not sure what to make of that. This, maybe? > **[Campbell's Soup Cans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_Soup_Cans)** > > Campbell's Soup Cans (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans) is a work of art produced between November 1961 and June 1962 by the American artist Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in width and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. The works were Warhol's hand-painted depictions of printed imagery deriving Warhol w... ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1596 "2025-07-28T15:12:40Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > SOU **PARK** was already taken? As well as **PARC**? On a Porsche 911 that had been making a nuisance of itself, zooming and braking hard, suddenly changing lanes to gain a car-length at a red light: **PSA 911**. Pretty Standard Attitude? 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1597 "2025-07-28T23:17:15Z")
I didn’t even think about that… maybe a Warhol fan. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1598 "2025-07-29T11:46:54Z")
On my commute in this morning - **BOBAPLZ**. I presume a bubble tea afficionado. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1599 "2025-07-29T16:32:04Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > **BOBAPLZ**. I presume a bubble tea afficionado. Or a fan of a particular Star Wars character. 😃 [![](https://popcultureexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bobafett.jpg) ](https://popcultureexperiment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/bobafett.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1600 "2025-07-29T17:25:01Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > On a Porsche 911 that had been making a nuisance of itself, zooming and braking hard, suddenly changing lanes to gain a car-length at a red light: **PSA 911**. > > Pretty Standard Attitude? 🙂 _Porsche_ Standard Attitude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=81)