The Mystery of Sadclown12 (Hopefully Lighthearted)

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DP is in IT, and was recently asked to do a password change for a client.
Pretty standard, right?

So, DP gives the client a temporary password and tells them that once they sign in using that temp password that they will be prompted to do a password change.

He randomly generates a password, using a fairly benign word/number formula. (The internal system the client is using does not allow copy and paste and DP found that sending someone a 30 digit randomly generated password that people had to type was just too much for them.)

Thinking the problem is fixed, DP goes to lunch. When he is gone... shit hits the fan.

Basically, the password-change client decided that DP's random password was ^"completely and utterly inappropriate and offensive"^ and escalated a complaint to her manager, then DP's manager (external contractor).

When DP came back to his desk, he was met by several stone-faced managers who took him aside and told him that he was not to use "suggestive" passwords for clients.

The password?
Sadclown12

DP asked how it was suggestive but no one will say. He asked me, and fuck if I know. His managers don't seem to have an ounce of common sense know, but are taking the complaint "very seriously".

I honestly don't see what the problem is? Was DP being U?
Is sadclown some sort of slang for a "suggestive" activity that I am just not aware of?

I have some theories:

1. Client may have run away from the circus.

2. Client may have had a tawdry affair with someone from the circus, and is paranoid about people finding out.

3. The client's CEO is secretly Pennywise.

AIBU to ask for your help to solve the mystery?

The only thing I can even begin to imagine is a clown phobia?
Batshit tho I have to agree.

This is brilliant and I'm going to follow it to the end.

Urban dictionary suggests this :

Sad Clown:
The act of a female performing deep fellatio on a male while wearing heavy mascara and/or eyeliner. The depth of the act may initiate the gag reflex causing her eyes to water, resulting in her mascara to run down each cheek; thus, resembling a sad clown when she looks up at you.

I had personally never heard of it until Googling just now.

Does the client think your DP is calling him a sad clown? Clown as in fool rather than circus entertainer

Does the password reset person have a resting sad face and a red nose?

Or maybe its what screamingvalenta said 😂

When the client was young he had hoped and dreams. He wanted more than anything to be a clown but his evil parents wanted him to have a stable desk job in a faceless organisation. Every night he snuck up to the attic, donned his clown shoes and nose and practiced long into the darkness. One night his father found out and burned all his clown paraphernalia in the back garden.

Omfg. They all knew about the porn thing. Thats why they were so angry.

It’ll be the Urban Dictionary ref. Bit niche, though, not what would leap first to the minds of most people. They’d have a point if it were ‘MunterFelch69’ or something.

Hahaha this is bloody brilliant.

What have other passwords been, OP? AngrySeagull84? BlueWaffle69?

I dont think that's real slang. Theres loads of fake slang on the internet that no one has ever used.

I was doing a presentation on intellectual property case law which mentioned kit kats which prompted a male team member to say that mentioning kit kats was all kinds of wrong. It was him thinking of a dirty joke or slang that i didn't know.

OMG. I am all for learning something everyday.

Yesterday it was how to pronounce Schiaparelli properly.

The day before it was there is no K or X in Welsh.

Today that sadclown had an innings on the urban dictionary.

HA

How ridiculous. Soon there will be no words left at all that we can use safely.

I thought I was fairly liberal, but at what ScreamingValenta found on UD!

Couldn't get over 'MunterFlech69'!

Normally the passwords are things like 'Gardengate15' or 'Cheeseboard101'.

I suggested Dutchoven21

I think it says more about his client and managers that this obscure piece of slang (it's not even the first meaning listed on UD!) was what leapt to mind at this phrase . Saucery is spot on - it's niche, not mainstream.

You can pretty much type any word into urban dictionary and get rude slang

I think he should complain right back tbh. He has no idea what it means but he’s just found out he works with and for a whole bunch of people who do! Eww.

I laughed out loud at the Pennywise comment

Maybe he should complain they cannot remain professional ??