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Vanity Plate for the Day – 47C5UME

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

Okay, this plate was on the back of new, black Audi.  I am not sure what state as all of the plate except the 47C5UME was covered up by the license plate holder.  I knew it was not Missouri or Illinois, so I randomly picked California as it comes up first on my list of possible states on the little app I use to generate these plates.   Just as an aside, at one point, years ago, I could get the barest of glimpses of a license plate and tell you what state.  All those years as a kid, traveling across country, playing license plate bingo had some value? Now there are so many specialty plates that I am frequently clueless.

I have been pondering for a day or so now trying to finger this one out. Frankly, I have not had a lot of luck.  I suppose this could be a standard plate from whatever state the car was actually licensed in.   Looking up the format of a standard California plate it is 7 characters that include 3 numbers and 4 letters with no break between characters.  So this fits.

I have been trying to make something out of this plate as it started with 47, a number that now refers to El puta pendejo naranja,  Since 5s are sometimes used as Ss in this game, I was trying to make something out of that.  Best I could come up with was 47 SCU ME or 47 EXCUSE ME.  If the 5 and C had been reversed I would have read it as 47 SCUME.

I am beginning to believe it is just a standard plate.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – ILVCOPS

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This was on the back of black Buick SUV, one of the small ones.  While I did not see the driver, for some reason I always think of this vehicle as a chick car. That is neither here nor there, except my stereotype explains my following comments.

When I first saw the plate, my first random thought was that I thought solicitation was illegal.  Then I thought, “well that is a somewhat small target market.”  Then I thought maybe she had a kink about men in police uniforms.

I am sure the reality was much more mundane than that.  She mostly likely has a loved one who is involved in police work… I hope!

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Vanity Plate for the Day – MRS 4TH

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This was on the back of a very new looking Cadillac Escalade.  I found it interesting, but I am still trying to figure out the meaning.  Is this the fourth wife? I am not sure I would be bragging about that. Perhaps her last name is Forth or some variation thereof?  Could she be a big fan of the Fourth of July… born that day?

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Vanity Plate for the Day – Cremate

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This was on the back of a – new or nearly new – Lexus SUV.  I did not catch the model number, but it was one of the BIG ones.  It had an Arizona Plate.   Looks like the cremation business is good in Arizona.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – HEYALL

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

This one was on the back of a big, black SUV.  I did not catch the make or model.  Obviously a jammed up Hey Y’all.  I wish I had thought of it.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – 6I JOE

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

6I JOE

This was on the back of an army green Jeep Wrangler.  Since they used “6” instead of “G”, there must be another vehicle with a similar Missouri plate.  “GI JANE” was also taken, but not “6I JANE”.  Nothing wrong with being proud of your service.

But then again, they could have just been big fans of the action figure…

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Vanity Plate for the Day – GRAZI

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

GRAZI

This was on the back of an almost new Audi A5, not an inexpensive ride.  Of course, grazie is Italian for thank you… or bless your pea-pickin’ little heart.  I never remember exactly. They went with GRAZI I am betting because GRAZIE was probably taken.

Going with thank you, one wonders what the owner was thankful for, perhaps the luxury vehicle, perhaps a man bought this car for his wife and this was her way of expressing gratitude, perhaps…

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Vanity Plate for the Day – KTYWMPS

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

KTYWMPS

A reference to catawampus which is commonly spelled katywampus.

This was on the back of a  Jeep Rubicon that was so highly detailed I had a hard time imagining it being in a situation to get askew or awry, let alone katywampus.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – LTR G8R

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

LTR G8R

If you are of a certain age – a child of the 50s – you will recognize this as “Later Gator” with the usual response being “After while Crocodile.”  It was on the back of a bright blue Corvette convertible, one of the new models with the very European styling, driven by an older gentleman with very white hair.

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Vanity Plate for the Day – WLKABT

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.

WLKABT

This was on the back of  yet another Subaru Outback, this one an army green Outback in our neighborhood.  The Outback name is inspiring all sorts of Australian themed vanity plates. I read this as the Australian aborigine custom of taking a walk-about, on the off chance you have not figured it out.

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