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A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo. Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/ (Nb: I’m sure this doesn’t work great on some devices)
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It just always says scram no matter what I do, I can record a single knock and it will still say "scram". Latest Safari on latest macOS.
I couldn't get it to pass on my phone, but "scram"/"get out of here" is equivalent to a password rejected/401 response. A single knock does not match the expected pattern, so you would expect it to be rejected.
> The former prisoner of war and U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl reports fellow U.S. captives in the Vietnam War would authenticate a new prisoner's U.S. identity by using "Shave and a Haircut" as a shibboleth, tapping the first five notes against a cell wall and waiting for the appropriate response. With the mass export of western culture, I wonder if there are any songs, tunes, or patterns like this that would still…
Related: "na-na na-na na-na" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/na-na_na-na_na-na I always wondered if anyone else noticed, how the Jackson 5 smuggled it into ABC. https://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U?t=01m24s
“Batman!”
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“Batman!”
No, Batman is an ostinative "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na" . Completely different from the melodic "na-na na-na na-na" .
(na na)+ [two bits|Batman!|(hey ){3} goodbye]
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The pronunciation of Chili, NY is an immediate way to ID anyone from the Rochester area.
...of course it's pronounced "Chye-lie". I can't talk, though, I come from Ohio where we have a city named "Versailles" that's pronounced "vur-SAYLES".
Indiana has one too. I found this out when my wife kept using that pronunciation while touring the namesake French palace on our honeymoon.
Wow, so this is the where Nardwuar's "Doot doola doot do..." comes from! I always wondered how it was so ubiquitous that even people unfamiliar with his interviews knew how to respond. Very interesting.
For Nardwuar fans (and those who've never heard of him), this talk is amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678512 He is 100/100 for initiative. Surprisingly relevant to HN'er folks like ourselves.
Serendipitous connections like this are what make HN so magical for me, so I thought my appreciation warranted more than just an upvote :D
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I once interviewed a candidate for an engineering position in Seattle. It quickly turned out that he had fabricated his entire work history and education. My first clue was that he claimed two years of work experience at Costco HQ in Issaquah, Washington but he pronounced it as "Is-ACK" (the local pronounciation is "IS-uh-kwah"). No one who spent two years in Issaquah would ever pronounce it that way, regardless of t…
I'd say the Washington shibboleth should be "Puyallup"
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For the US, "where does the shortstop play" is a pretty good one. Some people might get through K-12 without learning that, but surely not many.
During the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans infiltrated the American lines with ersatz officers sowing confusion by giving conflicting orders in perfect English. The GIs hit on the idea of asking them baseball questions. Failing to answer them correctly got the fake officers shot on the spot. My dad (WW2 vet) told me I would have been shot on the spot. My utter disinterest in baseball distressed him.