88 has a significance to a ham (amateur radio operator). It means “love and kisses”. But the HH doesn’t mean anything, AFAIK. It could be a love note to someone whose initials are HH.
Howard Hughes, I love you.
Couldn’t find the article, which I think was on NYT, but here is the Snopes on it:
Wouldn’t it be a great way to become immune to the tickets you actually earn?
A friend of mine had a similar idea when odd/even gas lines were required. First, get a vanity plate like “GAF 333”. If odd plates could fill up on M-W-F, and evens and vanities on T-H-S, no one would challenge him on odd days. But if challenged on even days, he would say, “but it’s a vanity plate, and I can prove it.”
My first car’s license plate was MY66MGB. When rationing came around, even-numbered tags could fill up on even-numbered days, and odd-numbered tags and vanity plates could fill up on odd-numbered days. Since I had an even number I could fill up on even days, and since it was a vanity plate I could fill up on odd days.
So did anyone challenge you on odd days? 
You see a lot of vanity plates in Atlanta. My favorite so far is PSSYCHSR. Not very inscrutable.
Hehe. That wouldn’t surprise me. Of course, I might be biased towards thinking that because a few months ago I saw a white PT Cruiser with a vanity license plate that had some variation of “White Power” on it (minus a few vowels) and had a “did I really just see that?” moment.
One of the rules for vainty plates in all jusridictions I’ve dealt with are that vanity he plates cannot be in the same letter/number pattern as the normal plates they’re issuing.
So the only way somebody could get GAF 333 is if that was not the pattern in use in that state. And if not, it’s clearly a vanity and so ineligible for odd-day gas. Folkswho live near state borders could maybe play games with the differences between plates on this side & that side of the border …
My job involves listening to scanners a lot. Recently on Md State Police in Frederick, MD.
1st officer calls in plate on radio: “I need a 10-28 on a tag. It reads 1080”
2nd officer excited “How fast is he going?”
1st officer “Speed limit, turn light out.”
2nd officer “Darn!”
10-80 is code for high speed chase…
Many years ago, in NC I saw MUFFDIVR and more recently MERDALOR, but, to the OP - maybe, if Mass. plates use the pattern of 2 letters then 2 numbers, then 2 letters, maybe it was just his/her turn to get HH88HH. As mentioned in my post #26, I did just spot a Mass. plate with 2 numbers, then 2 letters (DD) then 2 numbers.
I think it would be widely recognized among the faithful in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. It is about the power, mercy, and faithfulness of God. One key verse (9) is:
In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
So how was she?
Last I heard, she’d missed a period.
Uh oh. Disavow any connection you’ve ever had with her, traffic or otherwise.
Hmm. I was wrong in my past posts. It’s not an SUV.
88H H88 is on a PT Cruiser.
I saw a weird one today: An Ontario plate with BBII8888. And of course I immediately thought of the SD and this thread.
My favorite license plate is the Florida one that (unintentionally) appears to read “ASS ORGY”. Linky-loo.
Another favorite is 3M TA3.
I vote for the “Lucky Chinese” interpretation.
I live near Monterey Park (huge Chinese population) and it sometimes seems that every other store is named 88 something. Apartment #8 very often has a higher rent (because of being more desireable) than the other apartments, etc.
Also, given that Chinese-American immigrants have a strong culture of encouraging their children to succeed academically (almost as competitive about it as Koreans), that would fit with it being spotted at Harvard.
OK, I’m probably dense, but yesterday saw a Porsche Carrara with: XI IX.
If it wer IX II I’d get it
Clear that up for me?