# Quick riddle

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710 "2003-04-30T19:50:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/1 "2003-04-30T19:50:03Z")

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Whats the longest thing in “Life”

\*That wasn’t necessary. - Jubba

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/2 "2003-04-30T19:52:58Z")

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Life itself?

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/3 "2003-04-30T20:22:38Z")

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I dont know… but what’s the “longest” word in the world?

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/4 "2003-04-30T20:31:53Z")

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any language?  
I remember there was a 42-letter word in spanish… I think but I don’t remember it of cors!

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/5 "2003-04-30T20:33:08Z")

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the f?

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/6 "2003-04-30T20:45:03Z")

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I believe its:

Antidisestablishmentarilism…(spelling?)

in English anyhow…

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/7 "2003-04-30T20:48:14Z")

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nope - “smiles”

because there is a MILE between the “s” and the “s”

_dodges tomatoes and various other rotten fruit_

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/8 "2003-04-30T20:52:17Z")

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It’s antidisestablishmentariansm - meaning the belief in being against the people who are for the dismantling of law and order.

I always was good at English. :beam:

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/9 "2003-04-30T22:19:08Z")

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Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-scientific non-medical word in the english language.

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/10 "2003-04-30T22:22:34Z")

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Agreed. 🙂

And what about that village in Wales that you need about a pint of phlegm to be able to pronounce?

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/11 "2003-05-01T00:12:30Z")

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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

That is a facticious word… meaning it is a real word, but the definition is made up to be what it would be if the disease really existed. Oxford University compiled the word and determined it to be the longest legitimate word you could possibly make using the true rules of the english language.

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/12 "2003-05-01T00:14:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Phil Jayhan \*  
> \*\*Jubba,

Tuknuk didn’t speciphy non scientiphic, non medical; So I win;

Maaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

**lauphs psychotically in the background**

pj :P:P \*\*

but you didn’t…

Tuknuk gave the answer (smiles) … and just between you and me, a mile is longer than your made-up word…

:beam:

Rev

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/13 "2003-05-01T00:16:52Z")

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i bet my science teacher would know how to say it…strange i always thoguth stewardess was the longest word…it has some significance i just cant remember waht.

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/14 "2003-05-01T00:17:28Z")

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Philster:

Shame on you trying to cheat…

Tuknuk

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/15 "2003-05-01T00:18:16Z")

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another tuknuk?

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/16 "2003-05-01T00:50:03Z")

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who is this fake tuknuk!!!

Down with you!

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/17 "2003-05-01T00:50:39Z")

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i could help…please?

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/18 "2003-05-01T01:05:23Z")

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the word lost said is the longest i think  
every kid in webster new york can say it too… they all had to learn it in grade school  
so then when i came here from idaho and the biggest word was potato… wait, potatoes… i was blown away  
i still think its antidistablishmentarianism tho

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/19 "2003-05-01T01:06:34Z")

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haha idaho…potatoes…d’oh.

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-riddle/19710/20 "2003-05-01T01:07:50Z")

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i have a potato gun… dont mess with me

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