Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Gandalf ( Got my own Comp Now!! Still Redundant!! )
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!!!!!!!!
'G'
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Phil
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.
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Ormondroyd
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..." 
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Gandalf ( Got my own Comp Now!! Still Redundant!! )
I thought you were going to say, "Give us a 'T'.................."
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Fragilis - h2g2 Cured My Tabular Obsession
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.
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Demon Drawer (Really wishing he could put what he wants in here, but he's not upst with hootoo)
And I'm sure Jane carried it off woth great ablomb. Well maybe they should cast Catherine Zeta Jone's in a remake.
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Posted Aug 15, 2000 by Fragilis - h2g2 Cured My Tabular Obsession
They are hoping to do a remake, and the most common rumor is that Drew Barrymore will star. (Sorry for straying off-topic, folks)
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Posted Aug 16, 2000 by Wand'rin star
Cast Catherine Zeta Jones into a deep well and the Douglas creep with her
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Posted Aug 16, 2000 by Gandalf ( Got my own Comp Now!! Still Redundant!! )
I thought we were talking about place-names?
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Posted Feb 24, 2007 by DyddDewi
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.
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Posted Mar 2, 2007 by Wand'rin star
"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 
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Posted Mar 2, 2007 by Phil
And the Demon Drawer is still around also.
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Posted Mar 2, 2007 by Wand'rin star
Only Gandalf gone. Llanfair PG was obviously a sticky subject as the rest of us still post.
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