The thing is is that ...

[Angle]

Said the inn-keeper to the signwriter, "You have not left a space between 'The Dog and and and and and Gun'."

[Nick Armstrong]

... as if "the thing is" were the subject of the sentence.

It is extremely annoying.

Oh yes. Anyone who perpetrates the ludicrous "is is" in my hearing loses a lot of points...

[french frank]

Going off topic as usual, I am reminded of learning the pluperfect in Latin at the age of about 11, and the whole class being convulsed with laughter at 'had had', which the more you said it the funnier it became.

And then there is the sentence with the word 'and' used 5 times consecutively. Anyone know it?

I know the 'had' one (unpunctuated):

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner's approval. Forgotten the 'and' one: I did know it once (I see Angle has done it).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh yes. Anyone who perpetrates the ludicrous "is is" in my hearing loses a lot of points...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNnQIaRG1k

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNnQIaRG1k

Touché, Fernet Branca!