it could have been randomly generated also...
NY just started redoing their plates and I saw people recently with "BBW-####" and "ARF-####" and "AVN--####"


for the uninformed
BBW=Big Beautiful Woman
AVN= Adult Video News (I know this one because I used to work in a video store---not that I didn't read it for the articles )
ARF= the noise a small dog makes

Squiggy