LEEM on a FL standard plate on a BMW convertible. Respelling of Liam? A nickname?
BLUFFY on a FL standard plate on a Lincoln Navigator. I was hoping Bluffy was a cute young blond vampire slayer. Nope. A 60ish dude w short gray hair and a neat gray beard.
GIULS on a FL 5-character tropical reef booster plate on a car. So with pix of bright coral & tropical fishes. Very festive and fun. This was at the mall in an area where many employees park. Perhaps they sell jewels? Maybe their name is Jules? Or Giles?
TOM⎵PAC on a FL agriculture booster plate on an SUV. Maybe just their name, but with that plate background I was hoping the owner was somehow in the tomato packing business. Florida grows over half the tomatoes grown in the USA. Lots of that production is in the boonies near here.
ALLONS-Y1 I am 4SURE␣L8 with posting licenses I have seen in the wild. I was not present to hear A5LAN go RWAAAR thought that is something CATBO1 would have appreciated. It might have scared the GATITOS2 but encouraged the Clemson TI6ERS3 fans. ABEAR2 would not have been phased by the sound and if spooked B1RDMAN would have just flown away.
I have others because like @LSLGuy I have been saving them on my phone when stopped at a light and before they vanish from my brain into the ether. I will post some more later.
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1 French for let’s go. I had actually seen a similar one around here with with a Z instead of the Y which ends up sounding about the same but the Y is the correct spelling.
2 Gatito is spanish for kitten
3 Clemson is a university, and the car did have stickers on it indicating their support for it.
Aslan, who is a character in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia novels. He is a talking lion, The King of the Beasts, and is generally seen as an analogue to Jesus. Lewis himself said:
PDR⎵PUF on a FL standard plate on a generic small sedan. Probably referring to Powder Puff Football.
Doing some quick research it turns out powder puff or powderpuff is much more of an idea than a league. Seems there never was an official sanctioning body like Pop Warner boys football has. Color me surprised; all these years I had totally assumed there was one. I also learned there’s such a thing as powder puff hockey. Who knew?
VOR⎵GOL on a FL standard plate on a generic pickup truck. Lot of Latin and Brazilian folks in the area so the plate might not represent English. GOL is the major Brazilian airline. Gol is also the Spanish word for “goal” as in scoring a point in fútbol. Anyhow, I have no clue in any language.
Saw 1AA today on some sort of specialty plate. Just got a quick glimpse of it and might have helped decipher the meaning if I could tell what kind of plate it was.
Saw three today but could only write down two. The other is gone in the mists of lost memory. Oh well.
CONKRTE on a NY standard plate on a Rolls Royce convertible. Evidently the construction (or body disposal) business is very very good to him.
BOXJR on a FL 5-character Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team booster plate on a shiny red Mustang. A boxer, the kid of a boxer, or somebody whose last name is Box?
IOU⎵⎵0 on an out of state plate on a snazzy top-of-the-line Mercedes. At first I read it as “It’s paid for; no loan outstanding”. So a smug message, but not a gross message. With more thought I read it as “I, the car owner, owe you, the general public, exactly zero. Paying taxes or caring about anything but raw selfishness is for losers. Not for me.” Which is it? Or something altogether different? No way to say for sure.
Could also be a fan of the Misfits, a “horror punk” band, which has been around since the '70s. I see their logo on T-shirts and stickers from time to time, though I know little about them.
MY5KIDS, on a large SUV. SHIZZ, on a specialty plate with a military medal on it (I’m not sure which medal). THE WRLD. Can’t remember any more details on that one.
And Cleveland is the right place for a N SHORE plate.
GSSALLY on a Mustang, so clearly a “Mustang Sally” reference. I’m not sure about the GS part, but after a bit of research I’m pretty sure it was a GT California Special, or GT/CS – it was the same bright blue as the one pictured on Wikipedia, with a hood scoop and a stripe down the side, and now I wish I’d paid more to what the emblem on the stripe said. So I’m guessing GS is a shortening of GT/CS.
