Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

Now I’m hungry.

IXXIXXI

Roman numerals, I presume?

Probably. Could be 9-11-21, 9-10-9-11, or whatever.

Or they just liked the pattern…

Agree. I messed with various Roman numeral interpretations. Even being real loose in the syntax it doesn’t really work.

It’s art, not numbers.

LNGLIVE - which I first thought was Long Life, but it’s more like “Long Live the King”.

Maybe they are William Blake fans? (fearful symmetry)

Or the heads of two dead cartoon people lying right next to each other.

Saw an early 2000s Jaguar sedan with VB⎵⎵ART on a standard plate. I hoped some Googling would reveal a local artist or gallery with initials VB. Nope. So no clue what it means.

Saw NUURSE on the “Be a Nurse” specialty plate this morning followed shortly afterwards by OH RATS. Not sure of the context of that one.

The second one found out that nursing is a rougher, higher stress job than she (he?) expected? :grin:

Seen in the parking lot of the local supermarket: COACHCO.

It was a small car, so no chance of it being an intercity bus (a “coach”) company. Someone who helms a kids’ sports team? Possibly, but where does the CO come in?

There is often a black Corvette in the parking lot of the local racetrack. Its plate is RAVYN. That, I understand perfectly.

WAG, but the Coach’s last name starts w Co and is complicated. So their team calls them “Coach Co” short for e.g. Coach Cocotopolopolis. Or Coach Cocokapatelli or …

Makes sense. I’ll go with that if I see it at the supermarket again. Thanks!

Gaelic Athletic Association? A quick google shows there’s a hurling club in New Hampshire.

At the grocery store tonight saw a shiny new Bentley with DR⎵ROOF on a standard plate. Some Googling suggests he owns a local veterinary clinic. Taking care of fatcat’s Shih Tzus and annoying Pekinese seems to be a pretty good gig for him.

On the way home tonight: MAP CORP on a white Hundai Palisade. Googling gives a top hit of the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, but trying to follow the link gets me a warning from my browser about an unsafe site and I didn’t click through. Removing the “www” from that link redirects to BlackSea Technologies, which I think is the same company renamed, and which looks like it designs and builds military hardware.

Then there’s The National Map Corps with an “s”, which is much more benign.

The mazda miata did not exactly ZMM-ZMMM as I passed them and I was not impressed by the 9MM␣MMA jeep Cherokee. I guess they wanted to be intimidating on their LCN␣PL8T. I do not know if YU DUGOOD L8TCZECH but you seemed to be at the gas station. And I don’t remember H-HOBBIT being in The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings, maybe they are in the Simarilion? I should stop we these tortured sentences they are a bit MUUUUCH.

The person driving the L8TCZECH did appear to be european, so maybe they were from the Czech Republic, but there were no decals or anything else. They could have been making a play on late checks for all I know.

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JEDIDAD

On a license plate holder that read “Jedi Family”. That’s a sitcom I’d watch.

On a Hyundai Ioniq: WKDAYKAR. If they don’t have a sporty second car with the plate WKENDKAR, something is wrong with this world.