Logged in to my yahoo mail account this morning and got this message.

Yahoo! is changing the way you can recover your account in case you forget your password. We recommend that you provide an email address, but you must select two secret questions and answers in order to continue.  

So I was OK with the first secret question and answer, then …

What was the make of your first car?

It was a MG  was my first car so I put that in and got the following …

The answers to your questions must be 4 to 32 characters in length, and may only contain letters and numbers.

But my first car only had 2 letters!! (yes it was quite small) My current car only has 3 letters and is considerably longer!!!  Alas not long enough.

My sons first car, currently being paid for from his paper round!!!! Is a Kia, that’s him goosed as well if he had a yahoo account.

I predict millions of frustrated car connoisseur yahoo account holders all over the world (son and other Kia owners apart, who are obviously not automotive connoisseurs, who will consider this something else that just doesn’t work as it should)!

I also applied to join a swingers club on line.  It asked for a password and I thought use pen!s, you know kinda related, regrettably it said what I had entered wasn’t long enough!  Back to being an Iocusologist then.

Jack735 wrote: I predict millions of frustrated car connoisseur yahoo account holders all over the world (son and other Kia owners apart, who are obviously not automotive connoisseurs, who will consider this something else that just doesn’t work as it should)!

Non connoisseur's and techies will probably change their two and three letter brand cars for something with a longer alphanumeric name.  Could be a whole new marketing angle for those in the trade, while the values of the brands with shorter names plummet.