Tonight I saw
E1111000.
It took me a bit to figure out the meaning, and by then it was gone, but I am hoping it was a Toyota Corolla.
Unless, upon further review, it was E111100. Which wikipedia tells me might correspond to a BMW.
As I said, only a quick look. But I bet it was one or the other.
Not ice, Internal Combustion Engine Bad
OK, I’ve wracked (or is that racked?) my brain, but I’m not getting it. E111100?
Yesterday, in Santa Fe, I saw: MA SQ
Being a science-savvy area, I couldn’t figure out if it was a play on Force (mass x acceleration), Kinetic Energy (1/2 mass velocity^2) or just someone wanting to say “Mama.”
Tripler
I’m probably overthinkin’ this, as usual.
Binary.
1=32
1=16
1=8
1=4
0=0
0=0
Total: 60
There is apparently a car called the BMW E60.
Or
1=64
1=32
1=16
1=8
0=0
0=0
0=0
Total: 120.
There is a car called the Corolla E120.
Thanks for the explanation. (I’ll sleep better now. 
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This is my plate (yes, a new one has been ordered).
In general BMW labels their generations of product lines with a letter and a 2-digit number. Every few years when they go to a significantly new engine or body style, that gets the series a new number.
Today here in FL I saw a New York plate with TUTIPAZO. Maybe it’s their name or maybe it’s a word in Italian (?).
Google is uninformative: it’s totally decoyed that “Italian” means I’m looking for a restaurant, and the word “Tutipazo” includes p, z, and a, therefore I’m trying to find a pizza parlor. Sheesh google; whatever happened to answering what I asked, not just selling me what you guess I typoed?
Google translates “tutti pazzo” as “all crazy”. “totally nuts”. That was the only thing I could come up with.
That’s probably exactly it. Bravo!
another take:
spanish for: tu tipazo
tipo = guy, lad, man
tipazo = big/great guy/l/m
tu = your
so your big guy / your man / your honk
Yesterday I saw a Rolls Royce. Which isn’t so rare around here. But this one was driving aggressively; usually they’re sedate to the point of being obstacles to traffic.
Curious, I followed along until I could catch up while he waited at a light. New Jersey plates (I’m in Florida). It said PRO2CER. I managed to get alongside the car and saw a 40-something guy with a power haircut alone in the car talking into space. Presumably on the phone doing Something Important.
I wonder if that’s a showbiz type “producer”, a “I’m a producer, unlike you loser consumers”, or maybe “producer” is codespeak in the finance industry for the guy who creates outsized returns or lands outsized clients.
In any case this guy, his driving, and his car totally exuded "I’m important and the rest of you are not.
So my custom license plate frames, bought off of Amazon, arrived from some factory in China a week or so ago. Since then I’ve been waiting impatiently – well, moreso than I was – for my plates to arrive. The design of the plates I ordered was Oregon’s new “Pollinator Paradise” or bee plate rather than the standard tree plate.
[Stupid Discourse won’t let me quote everyone’s actual guesses. @chappachula @LSLGuy @purplehorseshoe @Paintcharge @DesertDog @Ignatz @carnut]
drumroll…
I really should’ve known that you guys would’ve guessed it quickly, especially LSLGuy who nailed it on the first try, Paintcharge, and chappachula who both noodled out the rest, sorta.
The plate simply doesn’t work without the frame. I suppose the frame would work without the plate, but where’s the fun in that?
Saw one today:
RISEUP
Either some sort of Christian eschatology, or a Marxist revolution. Couldn’t tell which.
I saw one-BLUE U 2
I would have laughed my ass off had they corrected the Latin. “Stupid Americans.”
@Lancia that’s a damned fine plate & frame. Color me jealous of your wit.
Here you go …
But are you with the People’s Front of Judea, or the Populist Front of Judea?
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(Yes, I know that it was “Judean Populist Front”, but the implication was that various splitters would eventually use any and every possible variation.)
Maine stopped censoring vanity plates in 2015 and Katie, bar the doors! About 8 years later, the double and single entendres got censored after LUVTOFU came on line.
So someone loves tofu!
American Road Magazine, Winter 2023