Since some of us are sharing our own plates… I’ve had California plates that say UPWIND since the mid '70s. Leftovers from my days sailing little sailboats and flying little airplanes. Originally, I had yellow on blue ones, now they’re blue on white.
I didn’t see any. And there’s none in the picture showing the entire back end.
Just today I saw PHO REAL. Do they really like Vietnamese food, or something? 
Also saw, though not for the first time, HER-5TORY on my drive this morning.
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Been a busy time for plates for me. Here’s a couple from the last few days.
Mercedes convertible coupe with THE⎵BENZ. Ref @Raza’s thoughts upthread.
The FL surfer-themed plate only has room for 5 characters. Saw one a couple days ago with INFNT. Which I interpreted as “infant” and was baffled. Just now as I’m typing I had a lightbulb moment and maybe it’s “infinite”.
Today I saw all these:
INS⎵LIFE on a raggedy car with an “AMERILIFE” license plate frame. Amerilife’s website seems like a legit insurance and investment advice firm, but there’s a creepy almost MLM-like vibe to it. Judging from the car the owner has not in fact made a killing as an advisor / insurance salesman. Yet.
Another surfer plate saying IMUNE on a Volvo SUV with a smug-looking 50-ish couple driving.
An SUV with Quebec plates reading GOLF.
3 others I’ve already forgotten but might recall later.
And the day’s winner:
A Ford F-450 monster crew-cab pickup truck with the dual rear wheels. In the top of the line “Platinum” trim level. Plus custom wheels and tires. And a lift kit, but not a huge one. And some other customizations. Overall effect is “looks pimped”, not “looks coal-rolling MAGA”. Truck is shiny & clean, no work-box or construction stuff in the bed, etc. The plate: WRYT⎵OFF.
And in a sad note I found out about a plate I didn’t actually see. On the electronic message signs along the freeway they were advertising a “silver alert”. If those aren’t familiar to you, they’re an alert to look for a senile person driving while lost and to call the highway patrol if you see them. We have several of these every day around here. Usually with a vehicle make, model, and plate.
The plate they were asking us all to look for was LT⎵COLS. Even the mightiest of warriors is eventually drooling in their oatmeal. Poor bastard; hope they find him / her / them both.
I just saw IM ALPHA on a white Nissan Rogue. I’m not sure if they feel they are the Alpha in the room, but if so I hope they don’t run into B1GCHEF who I saw on the road a few minutes later.
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CHR_27 was actually my first preference, from way back in olden times1 . It seems more modern languages use the CHAR function; I leaned to the more common modern use (obviously varies by language), if only because it makes it more obvious that the letters aren’t a person’s initials.
Now I gotta get off my ass, get the emissions tested, and visit the tag office in time for my birthday in January (in GA, for the initial custom vanity plate submission, you have to hand the completed form to a human).
1BASIC on the IMSAI 8080 was my first exposure
FYI, I have a couple of neighbors who have those plates. They don’t care about racing, let alone a particular track. They’re paying an extra $25 to get a black license plate.
No white background, no barns or geese or sailboats… the black does look a lot cleaner. People in Iowa can get a plain black one, Wisconsinites have to cope with a white squiggle on theirs. But the standard one IS pretty damn busy…
WRGLR JK — not very imaginative, for a 3d-generation Jeep Wrangler. The Jeep JK Wrangler was produced 2007-2018. In my ‘24 OBW today, I parked right next to it.
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S733H 09 In NC.
(Read it upside down!)
Clever!
Yesterday, I saw someone that figures they eventually will do more than just try: JEDI⎵2B. At first I thought that JEDI 1 through 27 were taken until realized what it really read. And then a few minutes later I saw RIP⎵GAS on a Tesla of course.
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60 Heels?
Go Hells?
Or “Go Heels”: North Carolina is the “Tarheel State,” and the University of North Carolina’s sports teams are nicknamed the “Tarheels” (or, for short, just the “Heels”).
Ah. Thanks for info. I figured it was some reference I wasn’t getting.
– thorny who doesn’t follow sports
You do now! LOL
I pick up a reference now and then to use in crossword puzzles. I don’t think that counts as following sports.
I’m sure I’ve occasionally followed a sports car in traffic; but only until one of us turns off for whatever reason.
I don’t think I will be sharing any personal information with whoever was driving MAGGPIE, but if I want someone to tell me the truth the Tesla driver of ENSERIO* would be a good one. I would guess nothing phases the Mercedes driver who has BENZ⎵THR and probably got the t-shirt too. I definitely do not want anything to do with the white audi that had WPI⎵88
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* En serio is spanish for seriously (not in the sarcastic way). If someone where to tell you si, en serio, they would saying yes, truthfully.
Thanks for the Spanish language reminder. Yesterday I saw CHEEKA‑1. Indeed she was. 
A few days before that I saw AUTISM.
I suppose that’s better than BLIND
