[78-L] Longest title

[Royal Pemberton]

It's 'I'm looking for a guy who plays alto and baritone and *doubles on a
clarinet and* wears a size 37 suit'.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
> > Patrick Feaster wrote:
> >> Steven C. Barr writes: "I shall try to see if I can create an EXTREMELY
> >> long
> >> German word based thereupon...?!"
> >> In the spirit of keeping things on topic: passengers aboard that Danube
> >> steamship who were kept awake at night by the captain's noisy talking
> >> machine, and who found him unwilling to "put a sock in it," might have
> >> asked
> >> whether he would at least consider some
>
> Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsphonographenmembranenschwingungsamplitudenverminderungsmaßnahmen!
> >>
> > Not the longest, but a few years back, Steppenwolf did a number called,
> > "Earschplittenloudenboomer".//
> > "Today I have good news und I have bad news...Die erste Hlfte wird nicht
> > verstehen, was ich jetzt gerade gesagt habe, und die zweite Hlfte wei?
> > noch immer nicht, was ein Earschplittenloudenboomer ist."
> > I think it has to do with the sound of an atomic bomb blast.
> > Translation?
> NOT needed...simply listen to music played by Led Zeppelin fans...?!
> >
> Since the German language creates "compound words" by stringing together
> all the applicable adjectives in ever-longer words...is there not no such
> thing
> as a "longest German word?"
>
> As far as ACTUAL "longest titles"...there was a c.191? title (with MANY
> sets of parentheses) which I used to cite; sadly, I can no longer recall
> the
> applicable tune! It was, IIRC, around the same length as a tune (with
> intended length) titled something like "I'm Looking For a Guy Who
> Plays...and Wears a Size 37 Suit"...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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