That which is boredom results in:

Well as previously mentioned I am bored.

So I hopped onto the SNEG geocachers forum where someone mentioned something about local Native Americans centered in Worcester. This led me to Wikipedia. What you need to realize is that when I click on anything in Wikipedia I always end up nowhere near any topic to which I started on.

So I ended up looking up long English words. I was brought to this page by a lake in a town we have friends in named Lake Chaubunagungamaug. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the proper Native American spelling...now you can see how I ended up bridging the gap between Native American (I was looking at the Nipmucs) and "long English words". The name of the lake is actually the longest place name in the US.

So, the longest place name in the entire world is a Maori hill called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu . WHAT?

What's the longest official English word in a dictionary? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I don't have enough tiles to play that one in Scrabble!! That word is called a "technical word" so some people don't recognize it as a common word according to what I read. The longest non-technical, non-coined term in the dictionary is supposedly antidisestablishmentarianism. (Jeeze, isn't is just easier to say "anti seperation of church and state??"

We have a much bigger winner in the word game for the geeks, however! If you consider a "word" to include technical jargon then here's one for you: Titin. Lol, that's just the common phrase for it. Titin is the largest known protein. As usual, any good scientific descriptor defines itself by it's name by taking a bunch of latin terms of whatever it is and squashing them together. Large protein = large word! Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglut-
aminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalyl-
prolylphenylalanylvalythreonylleucyl....and so on and so forth for supposedly 189,819 characters.

In case you are wodnering, Titin is a staple protein in the operation of your muscles. Super important.

What I'd really like is to have my old Chem teacher Mr. Sarnelli draw up a model of it's chemical formula. What is it? C132983 H211861 N36149 O40883 S693. Yummy carbony-watery-nitrogeny-sulfury component.

/endGeek