5th Grade School Bus Chatter

So, in the middle of giving a canned final exam on XP this afternoon, I noticed this gem of an answer:

The first thing that came to mind was an insult exchange heard back in elementary school.

"Yo momma wears combat boots!"

"Oh yeah? Yo momma's like a machine gun. She shoots out stuff."

And before you all start asking what the correct answer is I'll break it down for you:

6345789

  7 characters using only numbers = 10000000 combinations

  Not enough.

PaSsWoRd

  8 characters using lower and uppercase letters = 53459728531456 combinations.

  Common dictionary word.

8hG

  3 characters using lower and uppercase letters AND numbers = 238328 combinations.

  Too few characters.

Your mother wears size 12 Army Boots!?!

  39 characters using lower and uppercase letters, numbers, AND special characters =

  1.3527595427905617188002050084675e+77 OR a little more than 132 Quattuorvigintillion.

  This is the correct answer. (Yes, Windows XP allows the space character in passwords.)