This reminds me that I once had a coworker whose license plate on his humbly sporty Honda Civic had this:
T1 3VOM
Yes, he displayed his front license plate.
Maybe British? The Brits were known as Limeys because they were the first to give their navy’s sailors citrus fruits to combat scurvy on long voyages.
Yes, British not Irish. I thought Limey was for the Irish green color, but that was wrong. Yes it’s for the citrus fruits to combat scurvy. Thanks for that.
Yesterday a cute one: MEI WEI.
As in My Way? That’s my guess. As I passed it on the freeway the two people inside could’ve had the names Mei and Wei.
I was mildly disappointed a couple of days ago.
The plate number was AZTK 36. The plate was surrounded by a frame decorated with what, from a distance, looked like meso-American hieroglyphs.
On closer inspection, however, it turned out to be Hello Kitty faces.
I saw one the other day and I have no idea what it means. “LQQQK” On a Jeep if that makes any difference.
I’ve seen quite a few customized plates where a Q is used in place of an O (or zero); in some cases – including, very likely, this one – the “tail” of the Q is meant to make it look like an eye with a pupil.
I’d interpret it as “LOOOK,” with the eyes “looking.”
I saw a Lamborghini today with LOL WEE.
Perhaps they enjoy laughing maniacally while doing 150mph on surface streets?
Or perhaps they enjoy laughing maniacally while peeing their pants speeding on city streets, ruining what is no doubt luxurious leather.
Seen today on a Jeep: COW6RL. This was on Long Island, NY, not many cows left here.
I read that as Cowgirl.
Me too. As the saying goes: “You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl.”
Same, just surprised to see it here on the Island. On the other hand, it just occurred to me that it was on the peninsula once known as Cow Neck.
A couple - the first from my last trip to Albuquerque, self-explanatory -
This one from Washington State -
Thought it might have been BYE 55 mph in 2005, but a little research showed me that WA actually went to 60 mph in 1951. Your guess is as good as mine.
Saw a plate yesterday that was odd. It sort of looked like a ham plate* starting with K and all. But the first 3 letters are the call sign of a local historic radio station.
The odd thing is it had a “slash o” letter: Ø. Don’t recall seeing that on a plate before.
Checking for images of state ham plates indeed shows many examples of this.
* Homer: “Ham plate, uh-uh-uh-uh.”
Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode.
I’ve seen it on plates from a few states; I suspect that it’s done to make a clear differentiation between a letter O and a zero.
I can never remember which the slash is supposed to indicate, though.