Talk:Floccinaucinihilipilification

I've 'harvested' all these quotes from various sources on the web. Not sure where to draw the copywrite line with quotes from public figures. --justfred

You're fine - you've identified your sources, and press statements have been quoted well within the "fair-usage" and "proper-attribution" guidelines. - Manning Bartlett

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... as well as Cliff Claven of Cheers: (found reference but can't find actual quote!)
Does anyone know where to source this from?

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Where does Sen. Moynahan fit in? Verloren

Should be noted, but he apparently uses it regularly, supposedly Helms learned it from him.--justfred

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I removed this section from the article:

Fun

• What would happen if one were to convert the classic "wood chuck" toungue twister by appropriately changing the words to the correct forms of floccinaucinihilipilification? It might go like this:

How many floccinaucinihilipilifications would a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator floccinaucinihilipilificate if a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate floccinaucinihilipilifications?

Why, a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator would floccinaucinihilipilificate as many floccinaucinihilipilifications as a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate if a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate floccinaucinihilipilifications.

I didn't know we could really edit someone else's work... Fascinating! so if I wanted to, I could delete this whole page! I don't want to thought. It's kind of funny. Go grasshoppers!

• Oh what a beautiful morning...oh what a beautiful day...I got a beautiful feeling...Every floccinaucinihilipilifacater is so floccinaucinihilipilifatious that I feel like bursting into song!! 'thank you, thank you, thank you very much'
• Please do not erase this... I know it's almost as irrelivant to the general topic of this wepage as it can get, but I believe it has a right to lie on as a documentary of the past, far out into the distant future. Go grasshoppers! ~GrshpprGrl360
• Oh and by the way, what do you guys think of the name "Guenavieve"? I want to name something that. My friend can't remember that my dog's name is Genevieve, and always calls her Guenavieve... oh well...

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Kingturtle 18:08 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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We shouldn't use Merriam-Webster's weird pronunciation thing. It is better to use SAMPA. SAMPA is less complicated and fully documented on Wikipedia itself. I would convert it, but I don't know how to pronounce that word :) LittleDan 18:52 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Removed the section, preserved below. This has nothing to do with the subject.

Possible Consequences of Floccinaucinihilipilification

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost,

For want of the shoe, the horse was lost,

For want of the horse, the rider was lost,

For want of the rider, the battle was lost,

For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost,

And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!

For want of a rivet, ... the airplane was lost.

For want of a tile (or tiles), ... the space shuttle was lost.

For want of a species, ... the ecosystem was lost. (See biodiversity.)

For want of a comma, ... the text was misunderstood.

For want of a character, ... the computer program malfunctioned.

For want of a job qualification, ... the job prospect was lost (from the candidate's standpoint) and the job candidate was lost (from the employer's standpoint).