[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/2/21 7:27 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:21:30 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
>> On 12/31/20 9:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2020-12-30, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, they most certainly do.  "King Philip fried a pheasant on
>>>> Friday!"
>>>> is much easier to remember than "ud58{>!1&R17h7uo" and has 189 bits of
>>>> entropy compared to 72 bits.
>>
>>> What happens when culture gets in the way ?
>>
>> In the way of what?
>>
>>> For example, how much entropy is there in "Listen very carefully, I
>>> shall say this only once" ?
>>
>> If there is a cultural reference in there, I'm missing it. In any case,
>> I just don't understand what your question is.
> 
> It's a British and (arguably) French cultural reference. A short Google
> will inform you.

OK, so it is a well-known sentence for watchers of a particular TV show:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%27Allo_%27Allo!_characters#Michelle_Dubois>

Obviously, don't use a well-known phrase or sentence: make up your own
nonsense phrase. Or better yet have your password generator give you a
truly random sequence of four words as XKCD recommended.