# Yet Again: Weird License Plates **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/21 "2007-09-19T18:30:13Z")
[QUOTE=ftg] Was behind this yesterday afternoon: H10SLVR Just way too obvious. [/QUOTE] Not so obvious to me. Someone toss me a clue, please. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/22 "2007-09-19T18:35:51Z")
As I am a “kite person”, my license plate displayed KYGHTS. (There’s only so many ways you can spell “kite” in English.) ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/23 "2007-09-19T18:36:49Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] 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 [/QUOTE] Would it be totally nerdy of me if my first guess was that it was a misspelling of Tidus, and Tennessee was relevant because of the “Ten” in it? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/24 "2007-09-19T18:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] Not so obvious to me. Someone toss me a clue, please. [/QUOTE] Hi Ho Silver? and one just the other day: **URNDWAY** (dislexia kept trying to make it under) ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/25 "2007-09-19T18:40:13Z")
[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] Hope they’re from [Iowa](http://www.dot.state.ia.us/mvd/ovs/plates/kid.gif). ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/26 "2007-09-19T18:44:14Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] Not so obvious to me. Someone toss me a clue, please. [/QUOTE] Hi-Ho Silver. Quote of the Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/27 "2007-09-19T19:51:07Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed] Hi-Ho Silver. Quote of the Lone Ranger. [/QUOTE] That’s what I thought it might be, but I was reading the “10” as “ten” and wasn’t sure. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/28 "2007-09-19T20:25:16Z")
Best one I’ve seen recently was **B UNIQ 1**. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/29 "2007-09-19T20:45:07Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] 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 [/QUOTE] I’m reading it as ‘tedious’. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/30 "2007-09-20T00:02:48Z")
At a classic car show last weekend, one of the nicely restored (all the chrome spiffy and shiny, paint without a scratch, etc.) cars had this plate: **8MYCASH** * * * \<\< Universal Solvent Corporation, Container Research Division \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/31 "2007-09-20T01:25:48Z")
I see this on a car in my workplace’s parking lot: **4MYX2C** Bitter much about a former marriage, are we? (Can’t remember exactly what brand of car it is; possibly a Mercedes-Benz.) ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/32 "2007-09-20T01:26:43Z")
Last time I was to home in Texas, we went past a huge beast of a car with its older guy owner, who looked pretty close to Sam Elliot with a hat on. The plate said **BUYOIL**. If that wasn’t the picture of stereotypical, I don’t know what was. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/33 "2007-09-20T03:17:54Z")
Down the street from my mother’s place in PA, there is a red Ford Focus with the vanity plate: BUM HIP No clue why the owner wants everyone to know about that. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/34 "2007-09-20T03:49:52Z")
A guy who owned a grocery store in my town had a Datsun 240Z back when that was a desirable car, nicely tricked out with the plate **RUNVS** Which took me a long time to decipher ("Are you envious?) ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/35 "2007-09-20T04:22:20Z")
I once saw a license plate that was UBRGEEK. The funny thing was, it was on a beat-up, rugged old pickup truck. Not exactly what a pictured as the typical Ubergeek-mobile. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/36 "2007-09-20T04:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=Desert Nomad] Saw this in Nevada: AKQJTEN Perfectly appropriate. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/37 "2007-09-20T05:57:44Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Don’t get it. [/QUOTE] Ace King Queen Jack Ten is a winning hand in poker. As often played in Vegas ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/38 "2007-09-21T00:53:45Z")
[QUOTE=LSLGuy] Ace King Queen Jack Ten is a winning hand in poker. As often played in Vegas [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/39 "2007-09-21T12:44:32Z")
There’s a car in my neighborhood with this one. I wonder who the hell the owner knows to actually get it: **BALZBUB** ---
**Author:** ![coop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@coop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coop)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695/40 "2007-09-21T13:32:44Z")
My neighbour’s son 2 doors up has: **UNI 46X** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-weird-license-plates/419695.md?page=3)