Don't know if anything has been posted about these before, but they always make me laugh. As it sounds - it's where you get long headlines that are entirely made of nouns or contain a long run of nouns in them.

Anyone else seen any of these? Post a link here to your favourites if you see any good ones!

This one's quite impressive: "Profit Distribution Plan share buy back offer acceptance notice" - although presumably "buy back" should actually be one word, so this comes in at 8 nouns long. Also it's not a headline, so perhaps it doesn't count.

Anyone top that?

Language Log often has fun with these.

In addition, these noun piles often end up as crash blossoms.

Hehe, I love the term "crash blossoms"! Adding that to the mental wossname.

Stanley noun pile conversation word game possibility wonder.

Isn't share used as a verb there?

No, Kalleh. It's a noun, meaning 'stock'. The fact that it looks like a verb adds to the confusion when trying to parse it.

Hmmmm.... redolent of "Odour of Chrysanthemums." by D.H. Lawrence. If one expires in a crash, aren't mums crash blossoms?

Of course, arnie. Now it makes total sense; last night it didn't. I must have been tired.