Saw a car with Christmas lights all over it this morning and the license plate SLODOWN.
On the way home I got cut off by an Audi with either SLD V6 or SLO V6. The car had a very dark license plate cover that made the plate hard to read.
Tonight I saw AGGTAXI. UC Davis is known as the Aggies, so the owner probably has a kid there who they have to drive around a lot.
I also saw C1WY. C1 could be “see one”, but I have no idea about WY. See one way? See one Wyoming? It was ona Subaru STI; I have no idea if that is relevant.
Maybe that’s another way to spell “CIY”? Not that I have any idea what CIY might stand for except someone’s initials.
Last night I saw two:
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A University of Miami booster plate on a nice car. Those hold 5 characters and this one read INTB8. There’s some chance that’s an ordinary series plate, but it might also be “intubate”, suggesting the owner is a medic of some flavor, perhaps an anesthesiologist.
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A Bentley with BOURSE. To which I would ask “Where are the customers’ Bentleys?”
I don’t get the reference. On the off chance that your reference has nothing to with the French meaning of the word bourse, maybe they are a stock broker, since that is what the word used to referred to the stock exchange in France as well a some other countries in Europe. Of course they could be using it from other meanings of the word, like the original, which is a small bag to carry your money, or other more modern meanings, like monetary scholarship. If I were to see such a plate I would immediately think they are a Francophone.
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Yeah. Bourse is “stock exchange” and is a slang or marketing term used in English. Good bet this person works as a broker / salesman / something. Or maybe, just maybe, they made a killing on some stock trade and bought the Bentley with the proceeds. But I strongly favor the first possibility.
As to my comment, it’s a riff on this guy’s Wall Street exposé: Fred Schwed - Wikipedia. Whose central tenet is that the financial industry exists to enrich itself, not the customers it supposedly serves.
On a new VW ID.buzz microvan - MINNIE
This one made me a bit sad: END GOAL. I would have set my sights higher than the Acura SUV on which I saw it.
This one shook my head a bit. A WAG 15 year old raggedy Toyota Tercel with the plate INFADL. No other distinguishing markings on the car.
I’m sad to say that’s probably someone eagerly advertising their anti-lslamic bigotry. Making America great uninhabitable one moron at a time.
Saw BECK3 on my way home today and immediately thought of @Beckdawrek
Heh! If they also have BAD3 in their garage we know that
a) Beck’s been lying about her location
OR
b) you’ve been.
Unrelated to the above …
I’ve meant to mention this for some time, but keep forgetting.
Around here there’s a big cottage industry of solo driving teachers and generic Mom’n’Pop driving schools with teeny fleets. So you see rather a lot of nondescript random cars with mass-produced bumper stickers stuck about them reading [STUDENT DRIVER] in big bold text, or sometimes [STUDENT DRIVER Please be patient] in lesser text. So far, so ordinary.
Anyhow, one day I saw a slightly jacked huge Suburban-like vehicle with a large bumper sticker stuck to the tailgate. It was yellow background with that yellow and black diagonal striped border that signals a warning about a dangerous situation like sharp blades, or crushing hazard, or …
The text inside the striped hazard border said
STUDENT DRIVER
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Ya’ gotta like truth in labeling. Gave me a chuckle it did. I’m assuming the owner was joking about being a student driver. But you never know.
Saw a pair of window decals today that made me chuckle.
I was following a car and noticed some small white lettering on the driver side of the rear window; too small to read.
When we stopped at à red light I was close enough to read it:
Clowns to the left of me.
Naturally I looked over at the passenger side and there was another small decal that I hadn’t noticed:
Jokers to the right.
In the same vein I saw:
WARNING
I Learned to drive from playing video games
The car was not beat up, and they did not do anything strange, so maybe they played some sedate video games.
Anyway, if you need a vehicle for your pets, I guess you can use a car 4DOGS2 of course if they get away, you will need to HERD␣EM back to your house.
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With Arizona not having front plates, and our Bolt having the bits to put one on, I got this to make it complete.
I initially misread that as “But of course”, like how the one Bentley (Or was it a Rolls?) driver replies to the other when asked if he has any Grey Pupon. And that reminded me that a few years ago I saw an old Bentley Turbo R with a plate that read PUPON (Which I may have previously mentioned in this thread).
Today, on what I like to call a ‘bubba truck’, was this plate:
USOFAGA
He’s gotta be a Trump supporter.
I saw one that said “IH8TDEMS”. No misunderstanding that one.
Not a specific custom message, but I saw that Arizona has a Alice Cooper specialty plate. $17 of the fee goes to offer opportunities to kids,
I am not sure what THOR⎵5-0 is supposed to reference. A particular incarnation of Thor? Either way they are probably out in SPA⎵ACE. CHAZTOY is pretty clear as is, I am assume, GINNI. T4ANKU is a bit of mystery. At first I thought it might be Tanku (タンク) since it was a large vehicle, but the addition of the 4 has engendered a doubt in my (mostly) vacant head.
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IMO …
The 4 is representing a misshapen “H”. It’s just THANKU.
The 4-H connection is more obvious in fonts that don’t make a closed triangle with the upper left stroke, but just go up vertically from the crossbar.
I had not considered that. I guess I was in a Japanese mood when I saw it. That was definitively not the case when I saw 25UVA27 with a Virginia Cavaliers (the name of the University of Virginia sports teams). 25 to 27 seems like short time span to be a student. Maybe the JRZ␣GAL has something to say about it, although they might be drowned out by WEBJAZ.
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Maybe the driver has two kids, one in the class of 2025 and one in 2027.