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* [[Isaac Hayes]]' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" ("My gastronomical stupensity is really satisfied when you're loving me...")
* Michael Nesmith's post-[[The Monkees|Monkees]] solo work is notorious for this, though his most verbose song, "Wax Minute" ("minute" as in small) was actually written by someone else.
* [[Bad Religion]], a punk band, seem to be quite fond of this. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100913074835/http://www.thebrpage.net/discography/song.asp?songID=24 Here] is just one example out of many. There is also a [http://www.thebrpage.net/lexicon/ fan-made lexicon], for use in all of your pedantic endeavors into abstruse grandiloquence.
** An immense plethora of the sesquipedalian tendencies of the lyrics can ostensibly be attributed to vocalist Greg Graffin, the band's resident "Master of Science."
* ''A lot'' of the super lyrical rappers in [[Hip Hop]] fall into this trope.
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*** I optically perceive the actions you have performed upon the above discussion.
**** I would like to relate to my compatriots above that i am currently revolving to and fro upon the coniferous foundation of my abode, exhibiting so much hilarity i am of the opinion my posterior is detaching from my frame.
* The title of [https://web.archive.org/web/20110824071720/http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/on_the_high_velocity_rotation.php this] blog post by PZ Myers.
* [http://www.textfiles.com/holiday/night.hum Twas The Nocturnal Segment of the Diurnal Period] (aka Twas the Night Before Christmas).
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Grace's attempt to make a bit of a political statement in the sketchbook resulted in a bad case of [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-12-09 this trope.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
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* Another U.S. Vice-President who engaged in this was Spiro T. Agnew. He also liked alliteration. Instead of calling the naysayers 'naysayers', for example, he called them 'nattering nabobs of negativism'. Many of these locutions were the product of the mind of his speechwriter William Safire, who would later go on to write the "[[Grammar Nazi|On Language]]" column for ''The New York Times''.
* Composer Igor Stravinsky lapsed into this sometimes; an example taken at random from his book ''Poetics of Music'': "The true hierarchy of phenomena, as well as the true hierarchy of relationships, takes on substance and form on a plane entirely apart from that of conventional classifications. Let me entertain the hope that the clarification of this thesis will be one of the results of my course, a result I greatly desire."
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20081010152748/http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ Postmodernist Generator] lets you generate random texts using complex but utterly meaningless vocabulary.
* The winner of the 2006 Ig Nobel prize in Literature was Daniel M. Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"
* Baseball Hall of Famer "Orator Jim" O'Rourke.
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