Phobias

[CajunCenturion]

Last Friday was the 13^th, and the fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia.

There are lots of phobia words, some rather esoteric.

Anyone who suffers from paronomasiaphobia should not participate in this forum.

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[HarleyQuinn]

How about Arachibutyrophobia:

[white]1 entry found for Arachibutyrophobia.
Main Entry: arachibutyrophobia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth[/white]

Without reading the hidden text (or using the web) can anyone guess what it is a fear of???

HarleyQuinn
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[SF0751]

I sometimes suffer from vacansopapurosophobia.

Susan
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[Zathras]

I often say "Let the punishment fit the rhyme."

 

[gmmastros]

Everyone has phobia's, right? Can you imagine this one?
Phobophobia

-George

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. - Fortune cookie wisdom

 

[AnotherHiggins]

=>Phobophobia

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[DrJavaJoe]

All of us here suffer a bit from Cyanophobia.



Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I'm not sure how many of these are real (and the spelling is wrong on some of them) but here is a list that I and my colleagues found quite funny (apologies if anyone suffers from any of these, especially the more amusing ones) Phobias

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[AngelB]

I don't know if this one is real, but it made me laugh. Can you guess what it is? You don't need to know a foreign language to get it.

Aibohphobia

Gez



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[Zathras]

They all appear to be quite real. See

http://www.fun-with-words.com/phobia_words.html

(if you're not afraid).

 

[sleipnir214]

Should you get a chance to at your local book store, check out The Pop-Up Book of Phobias, by Gary Greenberg.


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[DrJavaJoe]

But only if you do not have Bibliophobia.



Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'.

 

[Stella740pl]

The topics are going rounds! This one (thread1256-1000370) appeared in Wordplay forum very recently. Arachibutyrophobia has been mentioned there, too.

Here is a big list of the phobias:

http://psychology.about.com/library/bl/blglos_phobias.htm

Some of the them, though, appear to be hoaxes, not real psychological problems.
See this:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/category/Psychology/P7/

 

[Stella740pl]

Correction to the link above:

In "Museum of Hoaxes", go to P14

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/category/Psychology/P14/

and scroll down to "Bizarre Phobias

 

[tsdragon]

Aibohphobia

[white]Fear of palindromes?[/white]

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tsdragon]

phobolexicaphobia

[white]fear of not being able to figure out phobia words[/white]

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SilentAiche]

[blue]Foebia[/blue]: er, fear of one's enemies.

Or something.

Tim

Or

boB



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[AngelB]

tsdragon, correct!

[COLOR=white]Not derived from Latin or Greek, just arranged so that the word itself is a palindrome. A bit cruel if you suffer from it.[/color]

Gez



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[UniqueFD]

SilentH,
"Foebia" - nice one!

Tony
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[SilentAiche]

[blue]Phila[purple]Dell[/purple]phia[/blue]: "Sittee of Brotherly Love," where you fear for your [green]laptop[/green] (not to be crude, but protect your PC).

Saila "The Dread Pirate Roberts"




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