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decklin:
Since no one has address the linguistic question yet (I think): "ass" modifies "long", not "time". It's an intensifier, although a peculiar one in English as we usually front-load our adjectives.

Contrast with "butt", which typically comes before whatever it's intensifying. See The butt crack of dawn.

(OK, this was entirely just an excuse for that link.)

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