To be a glutton for punishment is an idiom that means to willfully take on difficult or disagreeable tasks that may be very uncomfortable. The word glutton tends to mean overeating, and originates in Latin with the related words gluttus which means greedy, and gluttires which is translated as to swallow. The word gula may be similarly related and translates as throat.
The Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. Taken together, they form the largest river system in North America. If measured from the head of the Missouri, the length of the Missouri/Mississippi combination is approximately 3,895 miles (6,270 km) long.
The Mississippi River, the second largest river in the United States, stretches 2350 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, where it forms the Mississippi River Delta. More than half of the delta region is made of coastal wetlands and marshes, an important resource for animals and humans.