Saw KD JOY this morning. The car had a sign in the back window advertising some sort of business by the same name but the window was so heavily tinted you couldn’t read much of the sign. Kind of defeats the purpose…
Last couple days’ haul
- COMISH4 on a generic car with no sign of what this person might be commissioner of.
- NAMYA on a generic SUV. What was interesting was that I first saw the NJ plate on the front. Then as they passed me I saw they had a FL plate on the back with the same letters. So whatever it means, they’re proud enough of it to have paid for it in two states. I also suspect displaying that front plate when the car’s not registered there is probably illegal in both NJ & FL.
- 88088 on a Tesla Cybertruck. The only decode I can come up with is rather unsettling: 88 being a common raging RWer code for HH = Heil Hitler. Anyone whose initials are innocently HH would be aware of that code already. And of the sensitivity of “HH” in general.
A maybe disturbing one yesterday. Cadillac SUV. 50-ish white professional looking guy driving wearing a white dress shirt and a bulky fancy watch. The plate? HRT⎵GRLZ.
My first thought was “hurt girls”, as in “I like to”. Then I thought maybe Hormone Replacement Therapy as in he’s a OB/GYN and doing HRT paid for his nice car. Eventually I settled on maybe “I ‘heart’ girls”.
Still left an odd taste in my mouth.
On a car actively trying to nose their way into the left turn lane, skipping multiple cars, no blinker, just stopped in traffic trying to move over…
OUR TURN
Fuck You.
Saw it again, almost exactly a year later. But this time, I had another thought, that she likes riding … horses.
Anyway, today, on a pickup truck: 4KIDS1DG.
MEYMEY with a Hello, Kitty license plate frame and many anime looking tchotchkes on the dash. I think Mey Mey is a character from the Pretty Cure franchise.
Also EMS 88, the first part is fine, I worry about the second part.
Meimei means “little sister” but maybe that was taken.
(w)EYENOT get a SUITE␣EV? I completely agree, it is a good idea!
The w for the EYENOT comes from the logo for the Washington Nationals baseball team, and you can get license plates with the logos of various teams. I think I saw one way back that was (w)INNER, or something of the sort, but I can’t remember. The EV plate was on a Mercedes, which I did not know made Electric Vehicles since I do not see them with any frequency around here.
//i\\
Darn near everyone has EVs in their model lineup the last year or two.
Some years ago, a Bears fan who lives in Wisconsin did something very funny like this, using the state’s Packers plates, which have the Packers’ “G” logo on the left side:
Too bad he didn’t live in Michigan. Then he coulda had
(D)A BEARS
Seen at the local horse race track:
RACEEM1
“Race 'em 1.” No idea about the 1, but the owner is obviously a race fan.
Possibly that “RACEEM” was already taken.
Probably not the case where you live, but here in Illinois, there’s a distinction between “personalized” and “vanity” plates.
- “Personalized” plates must contain both letters and numbers – and in that order, without mixing letters and numbers together. So, a personalized plate will always be in the format of [Letter(s)] [Number(s)]; “RACEEM1” would be a valid personalized plate in Illinois, though there would be a space between the “M” and the “1,” while “1RACEEM” would not be (because the numbers have to come after the letters), and “R4C3EM” would also not be valid, because the letters and numbers are intermingled.
- “Vanity” plates (which are more expensive) are numbers-only, or letters-only. So, “345” or “RACEEM” would be vanity plates here.
Wow, what an odd set of restrictions. Makes one wonder what legit goals the bureaucrats were thinking about when they devised that scheme.
I can certainly see prohibiting “individualized” plates (to use a neutral term) whose number/letter pattern matches the pattern of the serially produced standard issue plates. And with enough generations of standard issue patterns out there, that could get to be kinda restrictive.
But this seems like a whole 'nuther order of difficulty for no evident reason.
Different topic:
As shown by my posting frequency here, where I live in SoFL has lots and lots of individualized plates. I’m now vacationing in California, the SF Bay & wine country areas in particular.
Good gawd; I’ve seen more personal plates in one day here than in four at home. More than I can remember, & too hard to take pictures driving an unfamiliar car in unfamiliar surroundings. But boy howdy, do Californians love their individualized plates. I knew that from when I grew up out here 50 years ago and the idea of individualized plates first got going. That seed has sprouted into quite the mighty oak.
Saw HNRGRD on an American Legion plate in the Kroger parking lot today.
DREMGRL on a Mercedes EQS. There was room for one more letter so I assume DREAM, DREME, DRIEM, etc. were already taken.
That’s the second Dream Girl plate on a Mercedes we’ve had in this thread:
PAPADU, presumably a grandfather of some sort.
Or, perhaps, a fan of the restaurant chain Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. 
Saw PNGW1N while stopped by a train this morning. And I don’t think they meant the Pittsburgh Penguins by the cartoony penguin stickers on the back window. It was cute.