Monday, May 16, 2005

Quaking in Terror

Here's a list of some honest-to-goodness, real phobias. I kiddeth not.

Anthrophobia- Fear of flowers

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes

Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern Lights

Barophobia- Fear of gravity (In all fairness, if I fall off a building or my ripcord malfunctions while skydiving, I, too, shall wax terrified of gravity).

Bibliophobia- Fear of books (Many in our culture suffer from this one).

Blennophobia- Fear of slime

Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman (Didn't we all have this one, as children? Hopefully, you grew out of it!).

Cnidophobia- Fear of string

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom (The Soviet Union collectively suffered this for, oh, 70 years, or so).

Geniophobia- Fear of chins (No wonder I can't watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno).

Helmintophobia- Fear of being infested with worms

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words (AKA Supercalafragilisticexpealadociousophobia).

Octophobia- Fear of the number 8

Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th (AKA JasonVorheesophobia).

Phobophobia- Fear of fear

Panophobia- Fear of everything

So what makes your knees knock?

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