I just saw LAF (License Applied For). That seems like one of those plates that’s going to result in you getting mailed dozens of tickets. Like getting NONE or NO PLATE.
And, let me tell you, as someone that got mailed dozens of tickets (due to a dealership mistake), it’s a PITA to sort out.
Today I saw an Porsche 911 Carrera with 911⎵LYF.
I also saw a Miami Dolphins fan plate with 27⎵⎵⎵AJ. Or at least that’s what I thought I saw. But my hastily typed note says it was either 27 or 37 and either AJ or AF.
I did find one player with initials AJ who briefly wore #37. Maybe this was him. If the plate really was 27 AJ then I have no clue what that might mean.
Driving to dinner I found a Porsche with MY991 on a 5-character limited plate.
The 991 being a particular generation of Porsche’s venerable 911 series.
This morning I found ELL⎵UCE on an SUV driven by a 50-something white guy in a dress shirt & tie. Perhaps a re-spelled Spanish “El luz” = “the light”, a common Spanish idiom for god or jesus?
Although Jesus is male, Light is female in Spanish, so he would not be referred to as El Luz, it would be La Luz, as how it appears in the Reina Valera (Kind of like the Spanish KJV):
Juan 8:12 Reina-Valera 1960
Otra vez Jesús les habló, diciendo: Yo soy la luz del mundo; el que me sigue, no andará en tinieblas, sino que tendrá la luz de la vida.
For me the UCE sounds more Italian or Portuguese, but I can’t come up with a possible meaning.
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Thanks.
The “ELL” part might just be standing for the letter “L”. So the whole thing means “LUCE” which is a standard enough surname in the USA. As to the space, the graphic design of a standard FL plate background means the leftmost 3 and rightmost 3 characters are readily readable, but anything in the middle space and a half are pretty much illegible.
Saw PAOLITA on the way home today. When I Googled that I got lots of hits for swimwear…?
I haven’t been going into the office as much so not as many plates to report. The main road I take to work is closed for construction and the detour is a nightmare so I’m only going in when I absolutely have to.
Two easy ones; 18HOLES, and SCUBIE on an Impreza.
I had a good haul yesterday.
Yesterday I ran across EMPYR. The plate was not FL nor NY nor NJ, but I only got a quick look so I’m not sure where they were from.
Illinois. 
Before it became a national brand, Empire Carpets’ ads – and that earworm of a jingle – were omnipresent on Chicago television.
800-588-2300…Empire
Haven’t seen one of those ads in decades and that number is still burned into my brain.
I braved the nightmare detour today to go into the office and was rewarded with a nice variety of plates.
MYAH on the new Indiana “blackout” plate, I’m assuming someone’s name
BIZZLE ??
CALLIE7
NELLY1 - I might have these two backwards, it might have been Callie1 and Nelly7, I don’t remember
BZ LINKS in the parking garage, also on the new blackout plate
And finally MADHAVI on my way home. I think this could have been a former neighbor of mine, that was her name and I could see just enough of the driver to believe it was her.
I saw EZIII today. Might be “Easy 3” or some guy w initials “EZ” same as his dad and granddad. The driver was an upper 60s, maybe 70s, white dude in a suitably conservative sedan.
Seen today, on a dark blue C7 Corvette convertible, with Illinois commemorative “Route 66” plates: LSHARK. I’m going to guess “Landshark” rather than “Loan Shark.”
Down here we’d be thinking “El shark”.
R3DRUBY on a red Ford.
Saw JAWX and CRNCK on the way out this morning. The latter might be “crank” or “chronic” or a compressed last name. I vaguely recall “Chronic” was the name of some street drug a long time ago. :eek:
On the next leg of today’s peregrinations I came across MIAMI⎵MK. The plate was an FL standard plate but the frame was from suburban Chicago. I expect the driver’s name was Mike.
Slang for high-quality cannabis, as I understand it.