Did you know that.. a.k.a Useless facts part ?
 

The official longest city name


Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Nosparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit

don't count there are 164.

due to the fact that tourist where having trouble pronouncing the name and it didn't fit on any roadsigns
they changed it to

Spoiler: bangkok, thailand

Pah!

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgoger...ogogogoch.com/

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll Llantysiliogogogoch

whose name means St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio of the red cave

i doubt Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Nosparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit was named as a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok

"The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (unlike Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn."

Isn't it the point of naming things that it abstracts into a usable form the description of the said thing. And in time the name of it becomes so ingrained that the meme becomes the decription also.

El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula
(The Town of Our Senora Reina of Los Angeles of Poriuncula)
aka

L.A. (los angeles)

And why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?

:blah: I remember that episode! :D

Mia:)