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Jokes aside, if your spokes are too long they are almost certainly going to need their threads extended in order to work. Chopping off the excess length is the easy bit, sometimes horrible OEM wheels built with single wall rims get the projecting ends of the spokes ground off flush with the nipple heads.
This is a motorcycle wheel, but you get the picture:
http://www.wheelfanatyk.com/store/morizumi-sct-machine/