Long John

Long john, long johns or Long John may refer to:

  • Long underwear
  • Éclair (pastry), in some parts of the US
  • Long John (doughnut), a bar-shaped doughnut
  • Long-John, A type of freight bicycle, it has a low-slung basket for carrying heavy loads. Due to its low centre of gravity it can carry 100 kg
  • The Long Johns, a series of sketches by the British satirists John Bird and John Fortune featured on the programme Bremner, Bird and Fortune
  • Long John Nebel, American radio host
  • Long John Baldry, British-born Canadian blues singer and voice actor
  • Giorgio Chinaglia, nicknamed "Long John"
  • John Lennon, who went under the stage name "Long John" in May 1960
  • Long John (whisky), a brand of Scotch whisky

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or john:

    “It’s a tree on a riverbank: how long can it survive?”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon—but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx—the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)