Unique Number Plates

Because his license plate is APRIST — short for apiarist, a fancy word for beekeeper.
“Lots of people don’t get it, because it’s not a very common word,” said Clark, who keeps honeybees in the backyard of his Old Louisville home. “Every once in a while, somebody sees is and asks me about beekeeping and honey. But the whole point of a vanity plate is to create a word which is just like the real words but is itself a puzzle, so when you’re driving down the road, it’s ‘Oh, yeah, I got it!’”

You see them everywhere, on passenger cars, pickups and SUVs — those deeply personal, sometimes-cavalier but often-encrypted messages on vehicle license plates. And perhaps you’ve wondered, who are those people so determined to use their number plates to tell us something about themselves.
Like Mary K. Fields Korfhage, who is known for producing Thunder Over Louisville TV coverage and the Kosair Charities commercial featuring Mitch McConnell and John Yarmuth. She advertises her passion for rescuing Dalmatians on her number plate, SPOTS.
“I volunteer for Second Chance Dalmatian Rescue, mainly based in Ohio, and Dalmatian Rescue of West Virginia,” Korfhage said in an e-mail exchange. “I drive transport missions and help in promoting homes for needy dals, and work with Shamrock and Humane Society. I have had the ‘SPOTS’ number plate for over 10 years.”
Vanity, personalized or custom number plate — different from specialty tags for sports teams, hobbyist organizations, fraternal or charitable groups — consist of a letter and/or number combination of the vehicle owner’s choosing that creates an evocative word or phrase number plate.

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