On a new Black Porshe Boxter in San Bernardino, California.
CHP SHY
Friend says it took him a bit to get it, but I can’t figure it out. Anyone?
Afraid of the California Highway Patrol, since the car may be a ticket magnet?
Yep, I think that’s it…California Highway Patrol SHY.
Baker one niner to seven mary three, come in.
Better than FU CHP, I guess.
I read it as “chip shy”, as in ‘one chip shy of a cookie’.
One of many expressions meaning not quite all there, i.e. mentally deficient.
Like ‘one bushel shy of a wagon’, ‘a bale shy of a load’, etc.
So I expected it would be a joke plate someone would get for their spouse’s car!
Maybe it was owned by a couple whose names were Catherine Hannah Potter and Steven Henry Young?
Hah! And I was thinking, “Maybe it belongs to a CHP officer whose initials are SHY.” But that was my 2nd thought. My 1st was, “Shy of the California Highway Patrol.”
GQ SHY
-xash
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I agree, it’s California Highway Patrol shy.
That’s ok; I saw AUI LOX on a acquiantance’s license plate for months before figuring it out. She was a blonde, a factor I should have picked up on sooner.
I assume “LOX” is “locks”, as in “hair”, but I’m not getting “AUI”.
As a side note, does anyone else remember that old game show where you had to guess what license plate numbers meant?
Cheap and Shy.
That dude only asks girls out once a year and takes 'em to McDonalds.
Think Periodic Table and the Three Bears.
Daniel
AU = Gold + I = Goldi(e)
There’s an eight-character plate on a car I see at times parked in my neighbourhood. It’s something like BE3NTB3A, a string of characters that make no sense in English, but which I suspect are an approximation of some Cyrillic word in Roman letters. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it since I wanted to post it in the last license-plate thread.
(There are a LOT of Eastern European people in this neighbourhood. I went googling for a local credit union, and found maybe a dozen. Half were Ukrainian, one Lithuanian (I’d walked by it a dozen times and from the name I’d thought it was a Spanish-speaking temp agency), one Polish, one Croatian, and one was a descendant of the old hydro-workers’ credit union. I guess it makes sense. When I lived in Oshawa, a huge GM town, we used to bank at the Auto Workers’ Credit Union.)
I always liked 3M TA3
It looks better in the rear-view mirror!
Well, there’s always HIHOAG which lives a couple of streets along, and never fails to raise a smile {I used to have C2H5OH when I was young, drunk and stupid}.
Try this one, folks:
GDSRSRC
A friend and I saw this one a couple weeks ago. We pronounced it as “gidserserk” but we could not figure out what it possibly could mean. Now we call any indecipherable license plate we see a “gidserserk”.
I see it as shorthand for “God’s Resource”, implying the driver is a religious sort.
I was thinking the same meaning, but figured the owner was a kick-ass Mac programmer. 
Years ago, I remember a fool who drove his big black Cadillac (that his baby’s momma was paying for) with the plate “ON WLFR”. Talk about just asking for it from the cops on patrol.
I never actually saw the car; I noticed it because of the large number of tickets that were coming thru the traffic court computer system issued to this car (and unpaid). These stopped after a few months; I never did find out just what happened there.