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{{quote|''"Salacia Deloresista Amanita Trigestatra Zeldana Malifee..." He paused, turned over several pages, and said, "I think we can skip some of these, but they end 'von Humpeding'."''
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In the broadest sense, whenever a character has more than the usual (in the Anglosphere) first, middle, and last name, they are in possession of an '''Overly Long Name'''. Also included are people who have the right number of names, but one or more of them is absurdly long, for example Ulla Inga Hansen-Bensen-Janson-Tallen-Hallen-Svaden-Swanson in the remake of ''[[The Producers]]''. (This is actually ''just'' her first name. They "[[Take Our Word for It|don't have the time]]" to hear her last name.)
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* In [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''The Magic Faraway Tree'', Old Wathisname goes to a fortune-teller to ask her to learn the secret of his True Name (Koolamoolitoomarellipowkairollo, or at least, that's how it's pronounced). He tells the others to always request for his true-name, but by the end of the story forgets, because [[Status Quo Is God]].
* There are several examples from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'':
** "Sally" von Humpeding from ''[[
*** Apparently this habit carries over even to the ones who've sworn off Uberwaldean naming conventions, as the VP of the Temperance League's Ankh-Morpork mission (according to the relevant [[All There in the Manual|Discworld Diary]]) is named Ms. Jane Mary Betty Pamela Ann Peggy von Jones.
** ''[[
** ''[[
** C.M.O.T. Dibbler appears many times in the books, and the initials had been understood to stand for his nickname, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler, until in ''[[
** Omnian names like [[
** Nobby Nobbs is actually called Cecil Wormsborough St John (pronounced sinj'n) Nobbs, which is not just overlong but rather posh for Nobby Nobbs.
*** It's Nobby. He probably nicked those names off of someone posh.
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