Longest Worm

[sdbardwick]

Originally Posted by robreid

which translates to "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater,' played his flute to his loved one."

Did this phrase immediately remind anyone else of the ST:TNG episode "Darmok", famous for such phrases as Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. and Shaka, when the walls fell. ?

No? Ok, I'll try and further suppress my eccentricites...

[Mystwalker]

Of course I remember that episode.

[rogue]

I wish I could forget it. It was awful.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

I was going to say "several pints to help me get my nerve up," but your answer is much better.

Only your nerve?

Paul

[garo]

Paul,
Alcohol "increaseth desire but taketh away performance".

[xilman]

Originally Posted by garo

Paul,
Alcohol "increaseth desire but taketh away performance".

Of course.

I was referring to his success rate. What did you think I meant?

Paul

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by xilman

Of course.

I was referring to his success rate. What did you think I meant?

Paul

No need to be so hard on poor garo, Paul.

[mfgoode]

Originally Posted by garo

Paul,
Alcohol "increaseth desire but taketh away performance".

In "Higher Mathematics" if you plot the graph of consumption against performance the function reaches a maxima at two whiskeys chased down with beer!
Mally

[mfgoode]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

No need to be so hard on poor garo, Paul.

ewmayer:I would put 'hard' in inverted commas
Mally

[garo]

Originally Posted by xilman

...success rate...

Paul

I've never heard it being called that before.

[kelman66]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

The plural would logically be Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, but that has the same number of letters as the singular. Apparently just being diagnosed with the singular version is enough for most people.

I have the 1986 (old I know) Guinness Book of World records and it quotes the plural, 47 letter version from Webster's Third International Dictionary is the plural of a lung disease contracted by some miners. PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosISes

Also, it lists the longest regularly formed English word is
praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters)
used by Mark McShane in his novel Untimely Ripped, published in 1963.