As you've probably seen, cars that are driven in other countries sometimes sport little international license plates. On each, one, two or three letters denotes some code that indicates the country of origin for the vehicle. In the above three examples, "S" indicates a car from Sweden, "MC" indicates a car from Monaco and if you see "GBZ" on the back of an auto, you're following a car from Gibraltar. The codes are not always obvious, at least to those of us who speak English. For instance, "ROU" is Uruguay, "CH" is Switzerland and "CL" is Sri Lanka. I don't know those by heart. I got them off this list.
This afternoon, my friend Sergio and I were driving along and we were behind a car with one of those oval license plates on the rear. It said "DMB."
Now, Sergio has travelled the world over and speaks many languages including, on occasion, English. I have a pretty good memory. But try as we might, we couldn't figure out what country was denoted by "DMB." I kept thinking it was something like "Dominican of Milton Bradley" and that sure wasn't it. So finally, Sergio pulled up alongside the driver, rolled down the window and yelled to the guy to ask him…and the guy told us.
It stood for "Dave Matthews Band."