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by 0x0539 3892 days ago
I know you're making a joke but a passpoem or a passstory for lack of a better word is usable and something I do.

I take a passage of reasonable length from a book that I've memorized, could be song lyrics or anything though. Then to create a password I take the first several words to make a password roughly the length I want, do a standard transformation on it that results in a string with numbers and special characters and use that as a password.

When I need to change my password, I just take the next phrase from the passage and apply the same transformation. This has the distinct ability of letting me go back in time and remember what password I would have used at a certain time which has come in handy for remembering the root password on an old server.