Sunday, December 03, 2006

The documented ones are sillier than made up ones

The Phobia List

JR was reading off some joke phobias that he stumbled on; so I decided to google phobias and came on this site. It alphabetically categorizes a list of phobias that the author has tracked and documented since he got interested in this as a hobby. I'm not quite sure on some of them, as it seems you can take any word, add phobia, and voila--you have a fear. Some of them are pretty silly of course; here's some from his list:

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body
Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.

Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms

Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women

I have a bunch of these fears---I wouldn't particularly care to get tapeworms, scabies or rectal diseases.
Here's a few others that he missed---

wristsweataphobia---fear of wrist sweaters
wellstoneaphobia---fear of lunatic Minnesota liberals
bleskachekaphobia---fear of extremely ugly,lesbian,fire chiefs
britneyaphobia---fear of seeing or reading anything related to Britney Spears (similar to parishiltonaphobia)
krameraphobia---fear of being scathingly called names by washed up comics
Aeroimamaphobia---fear of flying with psychotic Muslim holymen
hillarobamaphobia---fear that a democrat is going to win the 2008 presidential election
keeganstrivaphobia---fear of competing against Uncle Ben in a trivia contest
ginophobia---fear that Gino is hunting you down like a deer in Georgia
nonsenseaphobia---fear of reading The Far Wright


4 comments:

Mercy Now said...

So what's the term for a phobia of reading about other phobias?

imfreenow.blogspot.com said...

Hi kingdavid,

You can learn of my frustrations with doing new stuff on my blog, at that same post. I just bookmarked your page. The phobia list is hilarious! Thanks for listing my blog.

W.B. Picklesworth said...

No need to fear Gentle Ben. ;)

Anonymous said...

*Gasp!* Finger-wag