Today is the 83rd birthday of Soupy Sales. I wrote all sorts of gushy things about Soupy in this article (most of which he reprinted, with my permission, in his autobiography) so I needn't repeat them here. I'll just wish that his day — hell, the rest of his life — has the kind of happiness that he brought to so many of us with his TV appearances.
And I'll favor you with this video of Soupy at a comedy club appearance a few years back, telling the infamous story of how he was suspended from his New York show for telling kids to send in money...
Back in this message, I revealed that back when I ran my first computer bulletin board, an amazing percentage of users picked DRAGON as their password. Well, our pal Vince Waldron found this list of the 500 most common passwords...and sure enough, DRAGON is #7, beaten out mainly by things like 123456, PASSWORD and 12345678. You might want to check out the whole list and if you're using anything on it as a password anywhere, change it.
January 7, 2009
