I’m afraid that literary or pop culture reference goes over my clueless head. Care to explain a bit?
“Dracarys” was the command word Danaerys, the dragon-riding heroine of Game of Thrones, spoke when she ordered her dragons to flame someone. Like “Sit!” to your dog except here meaning “Char them to a crisp!”
It was very effective.
On a full size Chevy pickup with digital (electronic) Colorado plates: LETMH8
That is a new one to me. Thanks
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On a Ram pickup: NO Q GVN
Not sure on this one. The No and Given are obvious. Cue?
No Quarter Given?
Yeah. It’s a RW buzzphrase meaning “I am a raging asshole. … And probably armed.”
More on “weeb”: Japanophilia >> 21st Century - Wikipedia.
Went to get gas on my lunch break today and saw YAMZ in the parking lot.
Was behind MS_ATM_22 this morning in such a non-descript car that I have no memory of what the car was.
Scored 3 this afternoon / evening. Each interesting in their own way.
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DAW⎵⎵JR on a 1990s Porsche 911 in good shape. Made me wonder if they got the car from their parent DAW Sr.
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FIGEY on a Japanese national plate. How often do you see Japanese license plates on the road in the USA?
Best of all the car was a Nissan Figaro - Wikipedia. Which is a rather miniature car made in the early 1990s as a retro 1950s design. Sorta the local Japanese equivalent of the contemporary PT Cruiser in the USA. We got to yak with the owner for a few minutes. A remarkable little car and his was pristine. The roller-shade-like convertible top is really odd-looking. See Nissan Figaro - Google Image Search if curious. -
NEGRAA on a black 5-character Miami Heat basketball booster plate on a black pickup truck with blacked out windows. Apparently this fellow likes black. I’m a little surprised the censors allowed the plate; seems to have some potential for triggering misunderstandings and hard feelings.
What does Japanese national plate mean in this context. It looks like a Japanese license plate, or something else?
I hope that the DABANG is not the sound the car bearing that plate makes. Also, I think Mugabe needs to work on being incognito ZUGABE is just too obvious. I’m sure there are other meanings, like something a person named Gabe (or Gabriel) but Mugabe is the first association that came to my mind when I saw it.
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I meant simply the type of plate that is issued by the Japanese government to ordinary Japanese vehicles operating in Japan. Sorry to confuse.
H3MAN, on an Ohio plate (I’m in NYS).
The car was parked, so I didn’t see a driver. I’m curious now!
Reminds me of a story from near the start of my career, when HeMan and his buddies were all the rage in my kindergarten classroom. A HeMan “action figure” was located on a block shelf, and two little guys both claimed it. But they worked it out.
“I get it for ten years,” one of them told me.
“And then I get it for ten years,” the other interjected.
A very rare sighting, indeed. As Wikipedia indicates, Nissan only made it for one year, in 1991, with about 20,000 copies produced. It was never officially sold outside of Japan, though obviously a few have been exported to other countries.
The owner told me Nissan’s original plan was to make 5K of them. But it caught the public imagination just right and the demand exploded. So they made 20K of them.
SEA CZAR. The vehicle was an SUV that looked like it might be suitable for driving onto a beach, and it had a roof rack that could probably have been used for carrying a surfboard… but I’m not sure that Lake Erie inspires that much passion.
Ah I see. It must be a custom plate then because in Japan they don’t issue vanity plates, at least not like the ones in the US were it can be all letters. You can choose some particular number combinations and you can add a letter, but a plate with complete letters is not possible. I guess that one is similar to one european plate I saw that was something like milkdud with the u having an umlaut.
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Ah so. Domo arigato. Apparently I was fooled. I had assumed it was genuine.
It was yellow background with black writing, a couple Japanese characters across the top and down the left side, and the unique plate info was FIGEY.
A little Googling suggests it probably came from an outfit like this:
Their plates certainly look plausible to somebody unfamiliar with all the details of actual Japanese practice.
I agree that LTL BLEU is a small blue pick up truck though I was not sure that BLK GTS was a GTS but since I am not the IN4SIR of the naming rules, I guess it does not matter. I do not know if MAGG JR is Italian but if they are, they might use CIA0 002 as a joke.
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