Would you drive a car with the registration plate PEN1S or W1LLY?

Why not?

  Really, a guy like me doesn’t need that kind of boost. I have much more subtle approaches, and they have proven quite effective my entire life long.

  When a guy is secure about what he’s got, he doesn’t need to flaunt it, brag about it, or advertise.
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The full list of New York’s license plate rejections for last year:

https://pix11.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/Pulled-Plates-2022.pdf

Is everybody American here? Am I the only British person currently active on this site?

  Slartibartfast is an Aussie, Jaimie, Nanoose and two others are Canadian, Martina is Argentinian, there are others whom I can’t recall at the moment.
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The other two Canadians who were here recently are Amber and Franc.  Kittigate hasn’t been here in a long time.

 

  Thank you. I struggled to remember which other Canadians are or were on here. Kittigate served in the Canadian Navy (or Coast Guard).
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When I was scrolling back through the posts I noticed that our moderator has been missing for five days.  That’s weird.

We used to be British until they got carried away with taxes, a bunch of tea got dumped in Boston harbor, and General George Washington came riding along on his horse.

That was centuries ago. I live in the here and now.

True 

I guess it’s completely useless trivia time.  Yes, I scrolled back through Answermug to figure this out. 
People who posted on here in the last 30 days: 38

Where they’re from:
USA: 21
UK: 7
Canada: 4
Australia: 2
Argentina: 1
Serbia: 1
IDK: 2

Do all of your custom registration plates have to be four letters and one number?

No, I've seen a lot with two or three numbers.

Beyond including at least one number, I'm not sure what the requirements are. I've seen plates with just numbers, but you can't have all letters.

If there were two M1LFS in the Dodge Viper, they could just meet up with the driver who has 3SOME on their plates.  This post was edited by Livvie at August 14, 2023 5:07 PM MDT

 

(Cough, cough.)  I’ll need to know where that first vehicle was most recently sighted, please. Purely for research purposes, of course. 

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The UK number-plate regulations are quite strict.

They specify the overall design of the plate: the character font and size, spacing too I believe, background colour; and illumination of the rear plate at night. The characters are not supposed to be run together to form words, but have prescribed spaces.

DVLA will not issue a number that produces a rude "word", except perhaps by accident. Their policy is to avoid it, and the owner cannot invent the number.

At one time the number issued to a re-registered or custom-built vehicle also had a "Q" added, but I forget if prefix or suffix. That letter, and I think "Z", are not normally used to avoid confusion with similarly-shaped ones.

Note too the plates on battery-electric vehicles: a green rectangle on the end of the plate to show that fact.  

I just saw QQQQ on North Dakota plates a few weeks ago, lol.