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This one is a stumper. Must be a fan of Multi-user Special Intelligence Communications.
It’s too bad that Lorenzo Music is dead; that totally could have been him!
Last night I saw a Ferrari Roma with a Quebec license plate. This time of year we get a lot of Quebeckers down here and the crowd definitely leans wealthy. Sure, we see Toyotas with Quebec plates too. But proportionally more fatcat cars than the ordinary ones.
Anyhow the plate read BIGMAC9. I did not see the size of the driver. So I suspect this guy has done real well with hamburger franchises. Maybe even 9 of them.
Seems a little specific. If it was me in that situation I’d go with MKYDn to denote the number of franchises.
Hell, maybe he won the car in a contest to see how many Big Macs the contestants could eat in some short timespan.
Been a busy couple of days in licenseplate land
Saw a bright red sporty hatchback coupe; a Kia, Toyota, or similar. Lots of upbeat perky stickers, plus elaborate Christmas decorations. The plate read WLD⎵⎵LLL. I suspect LLL represents her (almost certainly her) name/nickname. I’m not sure what her name is, but she probably really is a wild person in a good way.
Saw an Ontario Canada plate with FARCO⎵7. A company name or last name perhaps?
Saw a customized Jeep Renegade with WTA⎵JEEP. Which was a bit baffling until I saw the stickers saying “What a Jeep”. And others with the name of the customization company.
I saw DA WYF. Too bad it wasn’t an Illinois plate.
Good gawd Joey! That’s a horrifying array of food and men. What comedy is that a snip from? But boy does it fit with that license plate.
A few minutes ago I came up on a generic Honda family van. Plate was ILUSN. Hmmm. Former Navy?
Then I noticed a school sticker for Hogwarts Boarding School on the back window.
Then I got alongside and there was a magnetic sign attached advertising a magician for hire for parties, etc.
Very clever.
Saturday Night Live
Da Bears.
From left to right, Chris Farley, Joe Montagna, Mike Meyers, George Wendt.
Great cite there Winston. Thank you.
I noticed in your clip the guy’s beers were nearly empty and the food plates were pretty well decimated too. Unlike in Joey’s still shot. Those set designers don’t miss a trick.
Farco Motors is a used car dealership in Newmarket, Ontario.
Came across BONSAI.
I also saw ST⎵⎵MAX. There is a St. Maximillian Catholic parish about 20 miles from here, so might be connected to that.
I was driving along and saw a car some way ahead with one of those electronic scrolling message signs in the back window: green dots forming words, moving along to repeat the message.
I caught them up and read the message:
“SPACE IS FLAT – EARTH IS STATIONARY”
Checked the licence plate:
RTHSFLT
I’ll let you fill in the vowels.
It was a recurring skit on SNL, and is only slightly hyperbolic in how it portrays the enthusiasm of Chicago sports fans for Mike Ditka and the 1980s Bears, as well as for fatty foods.
Decades later, the catchphrase “Da Bearssss” is still heard regularly here in the area.
ABE RUTH —
An Abraham who loves baseball, perhaps?
An Abraham married to a Ruth, perhaps?
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Is there a ‘B’ somewhere on the bumper to the left of the plate? ‘BABERUTH’?
Heck, that phrase is still heard regularly everywhere!
Yep. I regularly used it in St. Louis. As did many other people who’d never lived in Chicago. I still trot it out from time to time, but lately I haven’t had much interaction with other sports fans about sports. So the joke would be lost on my counterparty.
I sorta remember those skits from when I was watching SNL regularly. Golly that was a long time ago now.
You got a real True Believer there! You have to admire that level of dedication. Kinda.