# World's longest tongue **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824 "2001-11-11T23:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/1 "2001-11-11T23:38:37Z")
According to this [BBC story](http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_1646000/1646912.stm) (with pictures!) > [@](#): > > \*\*German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue. \*\*You gotta wonder about parents encouraging their 12-year old to become famous for her long tongue. The article goes on to quote her: > [@](#): > > \*\*My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day. \*\*Little does she know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/2 "2001-11-12T00:03:53Z")
Goodness gracious me. I’m speechless. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/3 "2001-11-12T00:10:07Z")
I would like to point out that she’s 12 years old. **Twelve Years Old**. Stop it. Stop it now. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/4 "2001-11-12T00:20:49Z")
**Frannie** is a party pooper. Maybe she can donate that tongue to someone who’s older, and male, and preferrably wants to come to Canada? ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/5 "2001-11-12T00:22:51Z")
I think it’s scary. If someone came at me with a tongue like that I’d run away. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/6 "2001-11-12T00:26:41Z")
Well yeah…but can she [spit](http://www.genesimmons.com/) blood? ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/7 "2001-11-12T01:17:22Z")
P’shaw. That [ain’t nothin’](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/bizarre/bizarre.cfm?instanceid=12271) [sub](Actually, I wanted to link to an article that was in WWN a few weeks ago, about Hilary Clinton having an affair with an alien. There was one picture with the alien’s foot-long tongue wrapped around Hilary’s chin. It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately (?) it’s not online…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-tongue/92824/8 "2001-11-12T01:29:34Z")
Seven **centimeters**? That’s under three inches long. How can that possibly be a record?