h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Someone had to add this place to the guide sooner or later.

Just give it a couple of weeks!!

knowing the researchers prediliction for one-upmanship, someone from N.Z is going to do a piece on Tamateaturipiku......................................................................................................................................Tamateatamateatamatea.

Its about three times as long as Llanfairpwll!!!!!!!!
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Still it does have a website about the town.
[Broken link removed by Moderator]

which must rank as one of the longest domain names around.

I have (seriously) heard that there's a football team there, whose supporters sometimes embark upon a very long chant.
It begins: "Give us an L..."

I thought you were going to say, "Give us a 'T'.................."

I have another interesting factoid. The town's name was used in the sci-fi B-movie Barbarella starring Jane Fonda. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was used to humerous effect as the secret word for the resistance movement on a planet governed by evil forces.

And I'm sure Jane carried it off woth great ablomb. Well maybe they should cast Catherine Zeta Jone's in a remake.

They are hoping to do a remake, and the most common rumor is that Drew Barrymore will star. (Sorry for straying off-topic, folks)

Cast Catherine Zeta Jones into a deep well and the Douglas creep with her

I thought we were talking about place-names?

Tauma whakatangihangakauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu - "The hilltop, where Tamatea with big knees, conqueror of mountains, eater of land, traveller over land and sea, played the koauau to his beloved".

I used to teach near there - and it IS just a hilltop.

"It was only a matter of time" ? Astoundingly, about six and a half years. I know Phil and I are still here. Will just have to try the others

And the Demon Drawer is still around also.

Only Gandalf gone. Llanfair PG was obviously a sticky subject as the rest of us still post.

*cough*