Blackberry’s odd list of forbidden passwords includes characters from Winnie the Pooh and more

Electronic Products ^ | 12/17/12 | JEFFREY BAUSCH

[null and void]

The Won can't use "Batman", fortunately for him his actual password - "Buttman" - is OK...

[Red_Devil 232]

and the Moose can’t use # 59! I guess she could use moose?

[Hardraade]

Michelle???

We knew Obama had a blackberry-fetish, of course. Quick, someone dig up his traffic.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

They prohibited Butthead but not Beavis?

[bgill]

Chelsea and Michelle but not Bill, Hillary, hussein, wideload or wookie

[DManA]

I’m luck that it takes DManA123 because I use that everywhere...............................

DOHHHHH!!!

[Fiji Hill]

Spring and summer but not fall and winter? Jordan (the country), but not Syria or Iraq? Jordan (the river) but not Yarmuk, Orontes or Litani? Odd.

[Responsibility2nd]

What’s a Blackberry?

Oh wait. I remember those things. From the last century.

[grobdriver]

0bamasuck$ works just fine. Alphanumeric, special character and all...

[FredZarguna]

That’s right — from “poohbear” and “piglet” to “rabbit”, “eeyore”, and “tigger”.

First, those are all proper names, so they should be capitalized. Second, in this house, we say "The T-word."

[gov_bean_ counter]

wideload or wookie

That one got a LOL!!!

[FredZarguna]

What about “ObamaPhone!”?

[Fast Moving Angel]

I’m luck that it takes DManA123 because I use that everywhere...............................

That's OK, you're safe, it showed up as ******** on my screen :-)

[Covenantor]

Am I ever relieved.

Humongocoldsore is still good to go.

[DarthFuzball]

gandalf is forbidden but fladnag is not?!?

[Axenolith]

It’s probably just the list of top percentage passwords as utilized in brute-force dictionary hacks...

[KrisKrinkle]

I don’t change my password anymore. I’d renamed the dog so many times he was getting confused.

[JCBreckenridge]

http://xkcd.com/936/

This should be password gospel.

[Merta]

So I guess #19 is Joe Biden’s password for his blackberry device.

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I don’t change my password anymore. I’d renamed the dog so many times he was getting confused.

When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, the standard rule concerning edible livestock was that any critter that has a name is safe from becoming Sunday dinner.

My sister and I had a pet turkey named "Tom" (how original...hey, we were kids) that we raised from a 'chick' and he was imprinted with the image of us being his mom.

He followed us around constantly like a spare shadow and always came out to meet us, getting off the school bus each afternoon. He'd come out and fan out his feathers and strut around a bit. It was his main, possibly only, talent.

In early November, word leaked out to us that he was going to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. The old rule had been over-ridden and Tom was about to be "axed" literally.

Come the day before Thanksgiving, we all dreaded what was about to happen and nobody would volunteer to be his executioner. Just thinking about it spread through the family to where we were all nearly in tears.

Happy ending:

We couldn't bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the dog.

If only we'd named the dog, just once, he'd still be alive!