You reminded me of one I used to see irregularly
COGPOW
Meaning I am a child of God and person of worth
She was a therapist.
I initially read that as
She
wassaw a therapist.
IMO my way makes at least as much sense.
No argument, I just knew her, knew her slogan.
This Tesla MUST belong to a Marine
Marine = Jarhead = Gyrene
My guess, anyway.
Semper Fidelis
Went into the office today for the first time in a couple of weeks and got rewarded with a decent haul of plates on the way home.
PEPE on a black Mustang
WILL1 on something else black and sporty looking
2023 ST on a…wait for it… Ford Explorer ST that I’m assuming was a 2023 model
BUYHOM on a Ball State University plate. Guessing maybe a Realtor?
QUEEN1 - didn’t get a look at the driver
RUKSUND - it seems to be the old spelling of a coastal village Røksund, Norway. It can also be used as a last name, so somehow it’s probably related to that.
KAHRANA on a Honda Civic. Something human resources Ana? Or is Kahr a name, so Kahr Ana? Or something completely different?
This morning:
SCRUBBS on a BMW parked near a hospital. Probably self explanatory.
BB2 PWR on a Tesla. I assume that is somehow related to the Tesla’s drive train or battery pack, but I don’t feel like researching what “BB2 Power” is.
A 94 OBS on a customized Silverado with a decal in the rear window that read “OBS Mafia”. That still doesn’t explain what OBS stands for, but I am guessing the OBS Mafia is a club for custom truck owners.
JD Power tells me that
The abbreviation OBS stands for “Old Body Style” in reference to the boxy and rugged look of trucks from the 1990s.
https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-does-obs-truck-mean
(Reads “the 90’s” described as old. Grows annoyed.)
I just drove from Northern Virginia to Pittsburgh and back, my first major road trip since the pandemic. I didn’t notice a single vanity plate during the trip, until the very end when I was on the the thoroughfare that leads to my own neighborhood, I noticed two following each other:
BUJITSU
and
LUV LOTS
DWNHIL - Skier, mountain biker, or having a bad time at life.
Or maybe a name, Dawn Hill. 
I find this surprising because IME many drivers in Virginia have customized plates — the percentage of plates in Virginia that are customized is higher in general than most states. I don’t have data to support that but that’s a guess on my part.
It was probably just a bad day.
The daily variance in plate-spotting is amazing to me. Driving around my local burb, generally within 5 miles of home, I can have a day with a half-dozen and another day with zero.
Back when I drove to work, ~50 miles along the same route at varying times of day, some days I score 10, other days none.
I’d expect a much more homogenous experience. Nope.
Could be confirmation bias, I suppose. You notice one early on the commute and you’re primed to look for more. Nothing happens in the first ten minutes and you start thinking about that memo you’re going to send when you arrive at work.
Spotted 2 this morning:
BNJOVY. If it wasn’t already obvious, there was also a frame that read “100 million Bon Jovi fans can’t be wrong.” (I also assume the correct spelling with an ‘I’ was already taken.)
PENCLIT on a RAV4. “Pencil it”, as in “Pencil it in”, maybe? (I also saw that it could be parsed as “pen clit”, but I can’t imagine that was actually the intended meaning).
In the military bureaucracy to “pencil whip” something was to sign off the documentation that some work had been done, without actually doing the work. “He pencil-whipped the hourly bathroom cleanings so often the filth was apalling.” Sorta the documentational equivalent of “phone it in.”
I don’t know how much that term has pervaded the civilian and corporate bureaucracies. But I think it has at least some. I could easily see your plate intending that meaning.
As to “pen clit”, I could see somebody taking a juvenile pleasure in having slipped that “dirty word” past the censors under the guise of “It’s just ‘pencil it’.” Like the infamous GOT MILF guy.
BOATZ on a BMW
I’m going to be on foot for a week then out of the country for 2 weeks, so my plate sightings will be few and far between for awhile. But here’s my recent small haul:
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LAM⎵TRK on a FL standard plate on a Lamborghini Urus SUV with an extra noisy poppy farty exhaust system. The “LAM” is obvious, and I suspect “TRK” is meant to stand for “trick”, as in tricked-out. I doubt it was “track” as in “I race this thing on weekends.”
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W-BADGER on a FL standard plate on a Volvo crossover. Evidently a U of Wisconsin alum or fan.