It's Always Swordfish
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It's Always Swordfish
As you're farting around on the Poop Deck (huh huh) a wary-looking pirate rushes up to you and grabs you by the shoulders.
"Avast," he growls. "What be the password?"
"No," you reply, "'swordfish' be the password."
"Aye. That it be." he replies, and winks at you as he unlocks a padlock on a trap door leading deeper into the ship.
Occurs at The Poop Deck.
Notes
References
- The use of 'Swordfish' as a password may be a reference to either the 2001 movie, Swordfish or to a scene in the much older Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers which inspired Swordfish's title.
- Swordfish references the book "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. After Vimes discovers that a secret group is using swordfish for a password, he thinks, "Swordfish? Every password was swordfish! Whenever anyone tried to think of a word that no one would ever guess, they always chose swordfish. It was just one of those strange quirks of the human mind."
- The '"What be the password?""No," you reply, "'swordfish' be the password."' is a possible reference to the Abbot and Costello "Who's on first" routine, where they exchange banter on various positions in baseball, an the player's names who are on said positions. One of the lines is "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third..." talking about the players on said base.
- One of the passwords in the Impossible Mission game from the 1980's was 'swordfish'.
- For more swordfish-as-password references, see Swordfish (Password) on Wikipedia.
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