# Yet Again: Weird License Plates
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695 "2007-09-19T02:32:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/1 "2007-09-19T02:32:29Z")
I’ve seen some odd ones lately:
1.) **Treker** – Not enough room for that second “k”. I guess. Six Character Limit.
2.) **AALICE** — What made this one wonderful was that it was on a Mini-Cooper.
3.) Just today, I came up behind a “disguised” police cruiser on the interstate. I wouldn’t have known it was a police car, were it not for the flashing red and blue lights behind the structure in the back (and, presumably, behind the grille in the front). There were no obvious antennae, extra attachments, or obvious police fittings on the inside visible.
Being a nice guy, and deferring to the cops, I slowed down and let them re-enter the flow of traffic from the shoulder they’d been on. Only then did I notice the license plate.
If you went to all that trouble to disguise a police car, you’d give it a pretty ordinary, non-descript license plate, wouldn’t you? That way it would blend right in and not call attention to itself. That’s just common sense, right?
So tell me why this one’s license read:
**666**
(If you’re driving in Massachusetts, now you know. Use this knowledge wisely.)
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/2 "2007-09-19T04:33:26Z")
Once, on the freeways, I saw the following license plate: IMINMY
I couldn’t understand it at first. But then I realized that it had some common information about the car written on the license plate frame, and I understood. And chuckled.
Can you guess what the make and model of the car were?
Answer:
It was a Honda Element. Get it?
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### Author:  [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/3 "2007-09-19T06:02:10Z")
Saw this in Nevada: AKQJTEN Perfectly appropriate. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/4 "2007-09-19T10:07:51Z")
I once knew a guy in the Navy whose MOS was Russian linguist. His plate read **MATPOC** , and means “sailor” in Russian. It was fortunate that the Cyrillic letters in the word were all also in the Roman alphabet, although not pronounced the same.
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/5 "2007-09-19T11:35:57Z")
In the UK the standard number plate format is 2 letters, 2 digits, 3 letters. A while back I saw “WU55 SEY” on a big BMW.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/6 "2007-09-19T12:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=kferr]
In the UK the standard number plate format is 2 letters, 2 digits, 3 letters. A while back I saw “WU55 SEY” on a big BMW.
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Using the previous format (1 letter, 1-3 digits, 3 letters), I saw a fully chavved up motor – tinted windows, spoiler, shiny alloys – with the number plate X4 SBO, spaced, and with strategically placed bolts, to read **X ASBO**. :rolleyes:
I wonder how often he got stopped by the rozzers.
(Note for non-Brits: [ASBO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbo).)
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### Author:  [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/7 "2007-09-19T12:34:04Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Using the previous format (1 letter, 1-3 digits, 3 letters), I saw a fully chavved up motor – tinted windows, spoiler, shiny alloys – with the number plate X4 SBO, spaced, and with strategically placed bolts, to read **X ASBO**. :rolleyes:
I wonder how often he got stopped by the rozzers.
(Note for non-Brits: [ASBO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbo).)
[/QUOTE]
I’m still waiting to see a car with [this](http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/CarGallery/?plate=P4+EDO&m=2&v=56) number plate.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/8 "2007-09-19T12:36:35Z")
[QUOTE=Szlater]
I’m still waiting to see a car with [this](http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/CarGallery/?plate=P4+EDO&m=2&v=56) number plate.
[/QUOTE]
Ha. I’ll have [this one](http://www.dvla-som.co.uk/home/en/CarGallery/?plate=P155+OFF&m=2&v=56).
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/9 "2007-09-19T12:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
If you went to all that trouble to disguise a police car, you’d give it a pretty ordinary, non-descript license plate, wouldn’t you? That way it would blend right in and not call attention to itself. That’s just common sense, right?
So tell me why this one’s license read:
**666**
(If you’re driving in Massachusetts, now you know. Use this knowledge wisely.)
[/QUOTE]
One of the cop cars in my home town has the tag number “187” - which is the police code for homocide.
Just the other day I saw the license plane " TIDE10S". I would have figured it out sooner had I noticed it was from the state of Tennessee
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/10 "2007-09-19T12:53:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> Just the other day I saw the license plane " TIDE10S". I would have figured it out sooner had I noticed it was from the state of Tennessee
???
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/11 "2007-09-19T13:10:08Z")
It would make more sense without the D. Tide Tens = Titans. Tennesse’s NFL team.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/12 "2007-09-19T13:17:22Z")
Someone on my block has THETAN.
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/13 "2007-09-19T13:45:05Z")
Just last week I saw this one (I tried to PM **kurilla** , but she has PMs turned off):
D20 2HIT
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/14 "2007-09-19T13:53:56Z")
In the suburb across the road from where I used to live, there was a car with the plate TELXON–one of the competitors to the company I worked for. It didn’t seem to help; Telxon is no more. The place I was working at at the time is still going strong. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/15 "2007-09-19T14:04:30Z")
I saw one this morning - **SHRKB8**
I spent a good minute going over the movie “Shrek” before I caught on.
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### Author:  [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/16 "2007-09-19T14:17:51Z")
There’s one I see every day – it reads “BELCH.” I don’t think I want to know.
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### Author:  [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/17 "2007-09-19T14:19:29Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV]
I saw one this morning - **SHRKB8**
I spent a good minute going over the movie “Shrek” before I caught on.
[/QUOTE]
\*sorry for the double-post, but…
A long time ago, when I worked at McD’s, I had a customer come through drive-thru with a plate that read **G8RB8** – she said she had gotten it a few weeks after she had been attacked by an alligator on vacation in Florida. She showed me the scars. I thought it was hilarious.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/18 "2007-09-19T17:14:06Z")
Was behind this yesterday afternoon:
H10SLVR
Just way too obvious.
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### Author:  [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/19 "2007-09-19T17:44:54Z")
[This is still my favorite.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp)
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### Author:  [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/20 "2007-09-19T17:50:33Z")
I used to see this one in downtown St. Louis, on my way to the office: **C9C2D4**
EBCDIC for ‘IBM’
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