Odd Question

[TeenageRepublican]

Does anyone know if any Presidents had tattoos? It's a burning question and it concieved itself when I started to think what would happen if a Conservative Punk Rocker became President.

Conclusion: Best State Of The Union Speech Ever...

[Air Force Guy]

I prefer no tattoos on Presidents.

Kids should be spanked when they draw on themselves. Adults will spank themselves later when age and/or skin changes make their tattoos look like hideous bruises.

I would say MAYBE JFK had a Navy tattoo, acquired in a moment of drunken camraderie...LBJ would be 2nd most likely in my guess list. Most other Presidents thru the ages would consider such a thing undignified/trashy...as do I.

[TeenageRepublican]

Me too. But it's just a random thought. Kind of like what's the longest book ever written?

[mkafrica]

Me too. But it's just a random thought. Kind of like what's the longest book ever written?

I'm not sure which one is... but War and Peace is a contender....

[DoctorDoom]

What is the longest book ever written in the world?

Long long ago in a country far far away...

During the Ming Dynasty at least 3,000 scholars spent 4 years, beginning in 1403, to work on the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia with 11,095 volumes and 22,877 chapters.

There are an estimated 370 million Chinese characters used.THE LONGEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN (http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainn ameatlonglast.com/long68.html)

It seems like everyone has a different answer for this one, mainly because some hold the definition of "novel" to one intact book and not a series of books with a continuing story.

The "Guinness Book of World Records" says that Marcel Proust's "La recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past" or "In Search of Lost Time") holds the world record for the longest novel, at approximately 9,609,000 characters. But the novel is presented in multiple volumes, so sticklers don't always agree with Guinness.

"A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and approximately 3,374,000 characters. It's claimed to be the "longest single volume novel ever published" in English. Before Seth's novel, others turned to Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" as the longest novel with over a million words (and about 5,500,000 characters). This is where all the character, word, and volume counts blur and we begin to get a headache -- because sometimes "Clarissa" is published as one intact book, and sometimes it's in volumes.

For simplicity's sake, we'll go with Proust.What's the longest novel ever published? (http://ask.yahoo.com/20070409.html)

The longest book title from now belongs to Nigel Tomm. His new book title consists of 3,999 characters (with spaces) or 670 words. The full title is:

Selected Works of Nigel Tomm (2006/2007) (Shakespeare’s Sonnets Remixed 2006 / Shakespeare’s Hamlet Remixed 2007 / Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Remixed 2007 / Including Previously Unpublished Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender Remix 2007) Nigel Tomm is The Winner of The Anonymous Writers Club Award 2006 for The Best Anonymous Writer / Deconstructed Poetry Award 2006 for Innovations and Teamwork in Poetry / Decadence Prize 2007 for The Lifestyle / Flashy Rococo Coco Award 2006 for Flashy Thoughts / Baby Boomers Award 2006 for The Best Marketing / Anonymous Artists Prize 2007 for The Best Anonymous Artist / Life Academy Award 2006 for Ignorance of Some Aspects of Life / Graphomania Award 2007 for Writing / Formal English Institute Award 2006 for English Grammar Improvements / House of Original Remixes Award 2006 for Creativity / WordKillers Award 2006 for Killing Some Words Sometimes in Some Books / iStyle Award 2006 for Being Unnamed Style Icon / Librarians Under Sixty Award 2007 for Staying Young / Comedy Association Award 2007 for The Best Drama / Happy Dramatists Award 2006 for The Realest Reality Show / New Forms Award 2006 for Rediscovering Something Old / Best of The Best Award 2007 for Being The Best of The Bests / Alaska Lifetime Achievement Prize 2006 for Bringing The Sun to Canada / Flaming Unisex Award 2007 for Coming to Flaming Unisex Awards / Random Books Award 2006 for Random Words Which Sometimes Sell / Happy Housekeepers Award 2007 for Being an Example to Follow / Wild Foresters Award 2006 for Saving Trees from Book Lovers / Writing Bodybuilders Award 2007 for Keeping Nice Forms / Life Coaching Without Words Award 2006 for Bringing New Life to Some Words / Writing for Writing Foundation Award 2007 for Rewriting Some Writings / Speaking Parrots Award 2007 for Some Fresh Phrases / CopyPasters Award 2007 for Recopying Shakespeare / Silent People Award 2006 for Talking about Silence / Strange Books Award 2006 for The Best Back Cover Text / I Don’t Care Award 2006 for Something We All Don’t Care / Happy Clowns Award 2006 for The Biggest Sad Smile / Nonexistence Award 2007 for Trying to Believe in Existence / MTV eBooks Award 2007 for The Best Male Reader / Bicycle Fans Award 2006 for not Writing About Bicycles / Cool Firemen Award 2006 for New Flames in Literature / Penguin Lovers Prize 2007 for Being Vegetarian / Green Grass Award 2006 for Frustrated Ecology in Hamlet Remixed / Vintage Love Award 2006 for Writing About Old School Love / New Letters Award 2006 for Some Useless Innovations / Retired Encyclopedists Award 2007 for Universality in Rewriting / Nice Web Developers Award 2007 for Fresh Look / Space Lovers Award 2006 for Exploration of Literary Cosmos / Monotony Award 2006 for The Best Performance / Homemade Video Award 2007 for The Best Home Interior / Illusory Zoo Committee Prize 2007 for The Best Animal Character / Degenerated Politicians Award 2006 for Belief in Moral Norms / F***ing Teenagers Award 2007 for The Best Kiss / Tomorrow Morning’s Fragrances Association Award 2006 for Smelling Words / London Punks Foundation Award 2007 for Ultra Cool Book with Hip Ending / Pessimistic Bankers Prize 2007 for Fresh Ideas on Pessimism / Soft-Hardcore Erotica Award 2006 for Remixed Feelings / Slow Talking Runners Award 2007 for Some Sweet Chats about Nothing / Honest Jet-Setters Prize 2006 for Being Honest to Honest People / Good Looking Pop Stars Award 2006 for The Best Interview Act / Disorientated Literary Agents Award 2006 for Trusting Nobody / Archaic Victorian Baroque Award 2007 for Crossing Borders Between Borders / Multicultural Context Prize 2006 for Multiculturalism in Books / Two Happy People Award 2007 for Mixed Palette of Happiness / Fragile Machines Prize 2007 for The Best Text on Robotic Psychology / Passionate Red Cherries Award 2006 for Dynamic Use of The Word ‘Cool’ / Late 1950s Award 2007 for Neutrality on Some Remixed Questions / Classical Counterculture Award 2006 for Development of Remix CultThe Longest Book Title ... (http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/24845/)

As for Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace":

Published from 1865 to 1869. Original text has some 460,000 Russian and French words. English translation contains over 560,000 words and over 3.1 million characters; typically over 1400 pages as a paperback.List of longest novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels)

As really long novels go (500,000-plus words), it's on the low end. Same page:

Sohachi Yamaoka, Tokugawa Ieyasu

This 40-volume historical novel was serialized from 1950-67. The completed novel contains over 10 million Japanese characters. It is not just the longest novel in the Japanese language, but also one of the longest in any language.

[TeenageRepublican]

What a thread drift, in only 5 replies, lol.

[ColonialMarine0431]

Both Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were reported to have a tattoo of their family crest somewhere on their bodies, although the specific location is not known.

[TeenageRepublican]

Does anyone have a link on what marine just said?

I'm just making sure this isn't your typical false rumor. No offense to marine.

[DoctorDoom]

President Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's mother had something in common. They both wore tattoos. While Jennie Churchill's tattoo was allegedly covered for the sake of reputation, and Teddy Roosevelt's was simply in a location which was not readily visible, this caused quite a stir amongst most of their day as well as modern-day history buffs.

President Roosevelt's daughter Alice had a tattoo also in a concealed location. Neither Mrs Churchill nor President Roosevelt's artwork lent itself to gaining a sense of respectability amongst the average citizens. Even whilst such notable figures possessed tattoos, they were still found to be socially unacceptable.Tattoos Designs In History (http://www.bharatbhasha.com/arts-and-crafts.php/69991)

ROOSEVELT, Teddy - Famed American President had a tattoo of family crest in unknown locationCELEBRITY TATTOOS - R (http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/celebrity_tattoos_r.htm)

All you ever wanted to know about tattoos, and lots that you didn't:

Tattoos designs & meanings, celebrity tattoos, tattoo museum, photo galleries (http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/index.html)

I can't find a ref to FDR having one.

[Timberwolf]

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20070716121119AAC0xDQ

[TeenageRepublican]

It's amazing how many answers you can get with such a stupid question... lol.