Conference thebay::joyoflex

    One of my favorites, from "Get Smart":
    
    	"The blue sun melts the red snow."
    	"And the purple water runs uphill."
    
    There were lots of other classics from this show, but I can't seem to
    remember them.
    
    Or, from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?":
    
    	"Walt sent me."  -to gain entrance to the Ink & Paint Club.
    
    -Tom

             ... from an old Mike Nichols & Elaine May bit ...

    	The Morris worm contained about 400 words that he considered likely
    passwords. I don't have the list on line at the moment, but one of them
    was "albatross".

    
    	Biblically:  Shibboleth
    
    
    	Or one of my favorites from a series of Rowan and Martin
    	routines:
    
    		"I've got the yo-yo."
    		"I've got the string."

    	Dante has several formal conjurations. One of them is given in one
    of my translations as :-
    
    "You that within one flame go two as one,
    By whatsoever I merited once of you,
    By whatsoever I merited under the sun
    
    When I sang the high songs, whether little or great my due,
    Stand; and let one of you say ...."

From a zany in "The King of Hearts":

	Le merlot aime la friture
	(The mackeral likes frying)

    Ah, "The King of Hearts".  I first saw it in Aspen--it just happened to
    be showing at the local bijou when we decided to go.  Then it played in
    Central Square, Cambridge, for ten years.  Wonderful.

    Thanks for the answers. King of Hearts is one of those few movies
    some of us can't stop watching (along with Harold and Maude.)
    
    Whence xyzzy?

    
    	Re: .8
    
    
    	Xyzzy is from the grandfather of all interactive computer
    	games, Adventure.
    
    	For that matter, how about plugh and Y2?  (Don't want to
    	give away the whole game.)

    G'day,
    
     Then there are the well worn ...
    
    
    Do you come here often?
    
    and
    
     Have I seen you somewhere else?
    
    
    ;-)
    
    
    derek

    "Swordfish."
    

    	"Mellon", with which Gandalf opens the doors of Moria.

    I was going to say:
    
    Say Friend and enter.
    
    "Joe sent me." is from `The Pajama Game'.  Among other places.
    
    "Lollapalooza" was common on the Allied side in the Pacific campaign
    during World War II.
    
    "Open sesame" is from the 1001 Nights.
    
    "Fair is the day." has personal associations for several of my friends.
    "But dark and storm the night." is one of the correct countersigns,
    but, since almost no one ever recognized the sign, it isn't as well
    known.
    
    						Ann B.

    	There is a list of a few hundred passwords which is being passed
    around hackers in ULTRA::SECURITY note 511.5.
    
    	Unfortunately,
    1) The note is very long, and contains a lot of material of no interest
    in JOYOFLEX.
    2) It contains a copyright notice forbidding anything but complete
    reproduction.
    3) The ULTRA::SECURITY notes file is restricted.
    
    	For these reasons I do not care to copy any of it here, but the
    author of the base note could very likely get membership of that notes
    file. The list claims to be taken from the passwords in the Internet
    worm plus a few additions.

    The passwords in the Internet worm look like a list of machine names
    rather than security-oriented choices of passwords.  In some informal
    environments, it used to be convenient to set each machine's root
    password to be the same as the machine's name.  (Just like in some
    environments, houses don't need doors that can close, let alone lock.
    Sigh....)
    
    >The ULTRA::SECURITY notes file is restricted.
    
    Now I know why no one answers questions in two other security
    conferences.  (Sigh....)
    
    -- Norman Diamond

    	I was rather surprised at what was and wasn't included in the list.
    It doesn't include "xyzzy", though it does include "plover". It does
    include "temptation" which is too long for most Unix systems, and in
    spite of the fact that it also includes "sex" and "Virginia" it doesn't
    include "virgin". Many of the words are common (U.S. culture) first
    names.

    Well, "virgin" could hardly be a root password  ;-)

	Well, from maybe the only person in the USA who laughed at ISHTAR,
		"I want to buy a blind camel."

From an ancient edition of Mad Magazine:

    "My uncle is sick, but the highway is green."

This allowed a properly-sized group to begin a game of 43-Man Squamish.


Dave C.

    I knew a bloke who's password was "I'm not telling you" so he
    could say that to people when they asked what it was. No-one ever
    cottoned on. He was a *very* slow typer though and when someone 
    watched him enter it and messed around in his account he changed 
    it to "different" so he could say when asked "it's different". 
    Still no-one cottoned on.  Have I missed the boat?
    
    
    Jerome.                  

	Our system managers get a huge kick out of coming up with dial-in
	passwords like "idontknow," "asksomeoneelse," etc.  Techy humor,
	don't you know?

		-- Cliff

    ... called "Not Much" so that when the Sales Folks asked what we were
    working so hard on in Engineering, we could truthfully answer, ... q.v.
    
    TRUE techy humor, I thought then & now.
    
    And no the project was NOT called "q.v.," Jerome...  :-)  :-)

    I once hacked the password checking of an "older" O/S so that deletes
    were valid characters in a password. Then, you didn't care if care when
    someone watched you type 
    
    XYZ<del><del><del>ABCDEF. They would think that the password was
    ABCDEF, when in actual fact it was 
    XYZ<del><del><del>ABCDEF
    
    q
    
    

    I got to use the password!
    
    I said "Fair is the day" to my contact, and he replied!  Correctly!
    With "But the night is dark and stormy."
    
    						Ann B.

Last week, on National Public Radio, I heard a report about the 
CNN coverage of the (Persian) Gulf War on 1991.  The CNN 
interviewee claimed that "all the other kids" and television 
corproations had been told that they would receive a secret code 
phrase to indicate that some (next) phase of the American war 
strategy was about to begin.  I have obviously forgotten most of 
the details, but the code phrase has stuck:

	Everybody's fine, but the kids have the sniffles.

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