A few weeks ago the 21st Century Clown World's Newspaper of Record, the Babylon Bee, had this clever gag posted:
KHAZAD-DÛM — A local man suffered from an embarrassing "boomer" moment today, as Gandalf the Gray experienced great difficulty remembering the password to unlock the Doors of Durin at the West-gate Moria.
"Oh dear me," Gandalf was heard grumbling to himself as the party he was traveling with arrived at the hidden entrance. "What is my password again? I know it was something easy that I knew I could remember. Great elephants, this is embarrassing!"
The group accompanying Gandalf on the trek — consisting of two men, an elf, a dwarf, and four hobbits — collectively rolled their eyes as they realized the old man had forgotten his password. "May his beard wither," Gimli the dwarf reportedly muttered out of frustration as he and the others sat down near the locked door.
Funny thing is, I actually have a story related to this. Last month (I believe it was during the Fringe) I saw a Lord of the Rings inspired Wifi network. Well as you can see from the screenshot, when you see the Wifi name "Speak Friend and Enter", the only proper nerdy password you can have is either:
- mellon (best)
- friend (distant second-best)
- (there is no third best)
No. Just no. This isn't like the classic names of "Pretty Fly for a Wifi" or "FBI surveillance van #6557" or "pennygetyourownwifi" where you have carte blanche authority to pick your own password. The moment you make "speak friend and enter" the name of your Wifi, your choices are limited. I've since heard somebody suggest "friend and" likely was the password, with "enter" being a homonym for <Enter>.
No, this is too cute (and probably not even true) so you get no points for this.
