You should all be proud of what you've accomplished! I have 'LEET followers! :)

There's this thing called "1337-speak" ("leet-speak") where you write with numbers instead of letters. @otage has gotten good at this, if memory serves (which it often doesn't...). "Leet" is short for "elite", as in, a step above.

I managed to capture this just now:

All y'all are 'leet, I tell you what! :)

I regularly "read" license plates this way:

0 = O (oh), or sometimes D
1 = L or I (capital i)
2 = Z
3 = E
4 = A
5 = S
6 = G, or sometimes b
7 = T
8 = B
9 = G

As you can see, there are many more "G"s than other letters, since both 6 and 9 make them -- although recently, I decided that 6 could be a lowercase "b", so now there are fewer. :) I also added the "D" for zero recently as well.

Often I will "insert vowels" (without having to purchase them :) ), and I try to make each six-letter license plate into two or three words, usually three. So something like "76MY87" could be three words, "tag my butt". I remember having seen a "53XB46" before, "sex bag", as well. I'm sure there are some other unfortunate license places, once translated this way!

I think it's neat as there are so many that are amusing -- and, some which could tell, or be part of, a story. I think that's really cool, and actually I had the thought within the last year that if I was a writer, and I had writer's block, I could go for a drive and get some inspiration from "reading" the license plates.

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