VanityPlate Filter
December 3, 2015 10:01 AM   Subscribe

Driving home last night, I saw a vanity license plate reading "RJS SPQR". What does it mean?

The 'SPQR' I get, but what's the 'RJS' about, and how do they relate? Any guesses?

(Ontario plates on a BMW SUV, if that matters.)
posted by Capt. Renault to Society & Culture (12 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
"Righteous speaker"?
posted by Mayor West at 10:09 AM on December 3, 2015


RJS means React.js in web development circles. It's a JavaScript framework for building dynamic web pages.
posted by JawnBigboote at 10:14 AM on December 3, 2015




Rejectatus SPQR? I reject the Senate and People of Rome?
posted by bdc34 at 10:35 AM on December 3, 2015 [4 favorites]


Guessing it's related to this Ontario Italian restaurant, named after the Latin acronym mentioned above.
posted by michaelh at 10:39 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


Is there a local (i.e., from around there, not necessarily low-level) politician whose initials are RJS?
posted by Etrigan at 10:40 AM on December 3, 2015


RJ's Sportscar? (With a creative spelling for car being quar).
posted by littlesq at 11:01 AM on December 3, 2015 [6 favorites]


FWIW, this Government site is not able to identify the license plate either.
posted by JimN2TAW at 11:12 AM on December 3, 2015


SPQR is what all Roman money had printed on it. (Like "In God We Trust") It's fairly unlikely to be the restaurant and more likely to be a Latin teacher/history buff.
posted by maryr at 11:15 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


I say it's someone's initials followed by "The Senate and People of Rome"
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 11:21 AM on December 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


There's a professor emeritus of Latin at McMaster with the initials WJS. It could have tied it up nicely if his name had been Ron instead of William.
posted by Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown at 12:36 PM on December 3, 2015


It looks like Regis SPQR, which given the declension, would roughly mean 'King of The Roman Empire.'
posted by yellowcandy at 3:52 PM on December 3, 2015 [4 favorites]


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