Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

And… Google tells me “‘Seins’ is the plural form of the French noun sein, meaning breasts, bosom, or sometimes, metaphorically, the heart/depths of something…”

Not that I am aware of. I’ve never actually met anyone with that name, and according to most sources it is rare. Aimée on the other hand (which means beloved) is more common.

I don’t think I have ever heard anyone in conversation use it as the depths of the heart. If I saw that license plate I would immediately giggle. Maybe the owner/driver is a woman?

W4NTED: someone who can explain what GHAZT means. Maybe H3NRY, R1GEL or ZA1A know or I could get help from a WVU␣ALMN1? RAM1REZ did tell MacLeod about how the whole immortal thing works, so he could help to figure it out as well. I would be scared to ask HYSNBRG though, he might be smart, but he is scary.

I do appreciate truth in advertising like when ORANG9 is the color of your car, or you let people know your vehicle is CAR1TO2. At the same time, I don’t need your advice on how to drive MAAVAN, I can decide by myself if I want to VEER90 so I don’t CRASH␣01,

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1West Virginia University
2Carito is the diminutive of Caro which in spanish means expensive, so a little expensive.

SEINS would be HIS in German (for an implied male or neuter object). Of course if US-style long vanity codes were possible in Germany I‘d use MEINS i.e. MINE.

Are you saying Google’s AI was wrong? I’m shocked, I tell you. :wink:

Anyway, this morning I spotted:

  • M OVER M on a Toyota Tacoma 4x4. No clue what that means. My first thought was mathematical, but that would just resolve to 1.
  • HALEYA1 on a Ram pickup. I assume that’s “hell yeah!” in a Southern accent, and perhaps to get around rules forbidding the word “hell”. Although I would think they’d also try to ban alternative spellings like that, but it may have fallen through the cracks.

Move Over Man! Is what comes to my mind seeing that, as in, get out of my way.

Edited to add: Or Maybe Mind Over Matter?

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It’s possible the owner’s wife/girlfriend has the equivalent of HERS in German on her car (and perhaps she has a German car as well).

Or, given the French translation, I also wonder if the owner is just a guy with the mentality of a 12 year old, and the DMV wouldn’t let him have BOOBS, so he went with the French equivilant.

Saw T0X1KA while stuck in traffic on my way home today. I wondered for a while if it was just an odd combination of characters on a normal plate… except that the normal plates here are either three letters then three numbers or the other way around. So it has to mean something but I have no idea what.

Toxic something?

I don’t know what the A would be, though.

“Fast”, perhaps? Cf “ghoti,” incorrectly attributed to G.B. Shaw. Do you remember the car it was on?

Tonight I saw:

  • ABESOM1 Abe Someone, I assume.
  • KRRIISH Google tells me that Krrish is a Bollywood movie franchise, so I assume it’s that with an extra I. Or maybe I misremembered that extra I; I just got a brief look at that one as I passed the car it was on.
  • H:heart:ZARD, on a new Bronco with some offroading upgrades. I guess HAZARD was taken and they had to get creative.

That’s what I came up with but on a Tacoma… you’re first guess is likely the accurate one.

This morning: WASM12 on a BMW X3. Any ideas?

I was actually wrong about this one – I saw it again today in the parking lot at work. It’s actually JAS​:heart:ANI, not AMI.

A Lexus SUV with CA plates: PAIRSOX No bumper stickers, plain license frame. I have no clue.

LNR LNDR on a black Corvette convertible;

SGL MALT driven by a lady who, by the looks of her, I’d follow to a bar;

6RAMS16;

2WL USMC on a motorcycle, a rider after my own heart.

H20 VUE, on a big SUV that wants to tell everyone that they can afford a water view?

BLUE 80 on a royal blue sports car

AUDIGRLY on a bright pink/purple Audi

UMERR and KIMBO, both ordinary looking sedans, no plate holders with any context

I saw all of these within a 3 mile radius today.

If you pronounce it in spanish it would be Toxic with the feminine ending (toxica), so either the car, or the person driving it.

Maybe it was ghost, the car was white, but did not look like it was particular sporty.

I would think maybe a Pair of Socks? Or maybe an admonishment to pair socks together?

I definitely think you should wear socks and boots on your way TOBARN but maybe that is just the kind of advice MUGL3S like me give.

I wonder if SPRTS⎵NT is a DUKEFN1 or likes the OH1BUX2. If they like Michigan they are likely to shout out GHOBLU3! Of course if they were a G8OR⎵H8R4 I would say HEY⎵DOOD it is better to H8EN01 and if they have a violent RIPOSTE I would get out of there at MACH3E.

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1 Let’s god with Duke University for this one
2 Ohio Buckeyes
3 Go Blue! Is a traditional chant for the University of Michigan
4 It could be they don’t like gators instead of the Florida Gators of course

Last October the Arizona Museum of Natural History where I volunteer acquired a van to to outreach programs at the local schools. It has a nice wrap with a big Arcocanthosaurus on the side and has been almost completely booked since we got it. Yesterday it was in the parking lot for the first time in a while and for the first time, I looked at the plate. DINOS2U on a Supporting Education plate.

Once again the grocery store parking lot comes through for me. Saw MRGOFF2 while heading into the store. Apparently there’s more than one Mr. Goff in this town. And then as I was leaving I was behind someone with a police supporter plate that said RAAWWRRR. Wonder if that was supposed to be a siren sound?

In my online gaming communities, “rawwwr” (in various permutations) is a growly sort of version of a wolf whistle or “hubba hubba.”

Out running errands today I saw KC ET KC. Any ideas. KC makes me think Kansas City, but that doesn’t explain the ET. Is that E.T. the extra terrestrial, or et. like the Latin term, as in et. al.? Or are ET the initial of a sports star who plays for a Kansas City team, which I’m unaware of because I don’t follow sports?