# 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:** 95
**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:** [October 7, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1881 "2025-10-07T23:33:16Z")
Saw either **MINS CAR** or **MIMS CAR** this morning, it was dark and I only got a quick look before the light changed. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1882 "2025-10-09T00:10:07Z")
I just saw CAJUN . . . on a New Mexico plate. (In lieu of a front license plate, he had a plate that said LSU.) ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1883 "2025-10-09T00:31:04Z")
I saw **B1G␣VAN** on a quite regular sized van. Maybe it is aspirational? And a Canadian **JOHANA␣E** 😜 `//i\\` ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1884 "2025-10-09T00:42:02Z")
Rather ominously, **FINALLY**. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1885 "2025-10-09T04:02:37Z")
Maybe _finally_ they could afford a custom plate. … or a decent car? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1886 "2025-10-09T11:21:02Z")
**TORTA** , someone who really likes sandwiches. Alternatively, a bit of a slur. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1887 "2025-10-10T05:14:43Z")
Today: **MALWARE** Really? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1888 "2025-10-10T13:54:24Z")
I bet plenty of people in Silicon Valley owe their nice paychecks to the existence of malware. Not that they create it, but the need to create defenses against it provides good employment to a lot of good people. I once apologized to a janitor when I spilled something within sight of the guy. He said “Don’t worry. If people didn’t spill I wouldn’t have a job.” Thoughtful cops are grateful there are crooks. etc. Your car owner is (probably) darn glad there’s malware to fight. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1889 "2025-10-10T22:27:25Z")
Red Jeep Commander with **KEPT\_1** ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1890 "2025-10-10T22:39:57Z")
I saw a Jeep Wrangler with one of FL’s 5-character plates. It said **WVAGL**. WV might be West Virginia. Or the W is “with” and something is “with vagel”? I’m lost. Anyone have a theory? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1891 "2025-10-10T22:41:20Z")
West Virginia Gal? Wild guess. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1892 "2025-10-11T01:51:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > the need to create defenses against it provides good employment to a lot of good people. Ah, that would be [the broken window theory of economic development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window). 💸 ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1893 "2025-10-11T02:01:47Z")
Yeah. If you add up the total cost of all the deterrence, prevention, and cleanup efforts over human malfeasance, plus the opportunity cost of all the good works not done by people who’re voluntarily engaged in bad works, it’s a phenomenal amount of value. We could live in a much nicer world. If only for human nature. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1894 "2025-10-11T09:49:52Z")
**HELIES** , politics? ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1895 "2025-10-13T01:36:42Z")
**2GODBGLY** - To God Bigly, but I guess there could be other interpretations. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1896 "2025-10-13T04:42:08Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > **2GODBGLY** - To God Bigly, but I guess there could be other interpretations I’d guess, “To God be the glory,” which is a Christian hymn, IIRC. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1897 "2025-10-13T04:47:31Z")
On a Jeep Wrangler Sahara: **JAYHARA** He walked into the restaurant I was in. I called out, “Are you Jay?” He was. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1898 "2025-10-13T14:50:05Z")
One and a half today: - A golf-themed plate with **TEE⎵JMA**. The “tee” part is easy. JMA is initials? I was trying to make it be something in Spanish or French, but not quite having it. - An ordinary plate with the ordinary non-personalized **RET⎵S08**. Which I originally read as **RET⎵SOB** = “retired S.O.B.” Which I thought would actually be a pretty cool plate to have were one a curmudgeon. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1899 "2025-10-13T17:14:09Z")
Out and about today since I had the day off. Saw **CHIRP25** on a Ball State Cardinals plate and **PHYZICS** with an “I’d Rather Be Flying” license plate border. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1900 "2025-10-13T18:14:33Z")
Here in MA I spotted **LGMETS** which must have been tough this season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965.md?page=96)