What’s in a name? Letters, maybe a number (that is if you’re Powerman 5000 frontman “Spider 1”). But sometimes length can tell the whole story. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Perhaps, just so long as its not like the World’s Longest Movie Title “Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D.”
Take a guess at what year this movie released. If you were aiming anywhere close to the 80’s, you almost got it: 1991 was the golden year of this gem. Nothing, however, can be quite as outrageous as the world’s longest name of a person. It’s almost hard to believe, actually… But if I’m going to take this at face value, I present you with a name encompassing every letter of the alphabet. It belonged to a German immigrant. He was known as:
“Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy Zeus.”
Here’s one not quite as unbelievable. It’s our nation’s longest name for a state! Ironically, it belongs to the smallest state in America. The official name is: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Take that, Texas.
More outrageously long names you almost can’t believe can be found here.
