Posted on 07/11/2008 5:21:09 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
For example:
Apimania - Excessive interest in bees
Monophobia - Fear of being alone
Bibliomania - Excessive interest in books
Neophobia - Fear of anything new
Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women
Pyromania - Excessive interest in fire
And of course, there's Luposlipaphobia, the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. (Ala Gary Larson and The Far Side.)
For more, visit the Indexed List of Phobias or the Corrected List of Manias.
What are your fears or manias? Ladies, perhaps you are in keeping with the stereotypical suriphobia (fear of mice) or guys, perhaps you lean towards pyromania (like me!). Maybe you have a twinkimania (excessive interest in Twinkies) or chimniphobic (fear of chimneys).
If none of the above fit your criteria, or you can't think of any based on this thread, make your own up!
you can add the reaction to the “subprime crisis” to the list of manias, if it’s not there yet. It’s fittin’ 2 b.
I have a fear of spiderwebs.
Bonus Questions:
1. Sweet or savor?
savory
2. Firefox or Internet Explorer?
IE
3. Board games or card games?
video games or jigsaw puzzles....leaning more toward the puzzles these days.
4. Mac or Windows?
Windows
I also have mild manias about roads and Free Republic.
1. What th’heck is savor in this context?
2. Firefox, definitely. IE6 is a piece of crap.
3. I’m happy with either one.
4. Definitely windows, since that’s where I got most of my computer experience.
It's hugh. I'll explain it to you.....but only if you're series.
1. Savory
2. IE
3. Card Games
4 Windows
As an avid poker player, I go with card games. :)
Well if this doesn't explain male Democrat voters, I don't know what does...
Tough choice. Probably savoury.
2. Firefox or Internet Explorer?
Any questions?
3. Board games or card games?
Either/or.
4. Mac or Windows?
Linux.
I'm headed to a party tonight, so you ladies and gentlemen behave yourselves. I'm driving so I won't be having too many, but maybe I'll join the thread when I post-game.
I think that might be me. When I moved about 2 1/2 months ago, 85% of my things were books and shoes.
1. Savory
2. Firefox
3. Board
4. Windows, but I've never used a Mac
Lately my phobia is heights. At work I ride the train to work and one entrance to the train station is this super steep escalator. It freaks me out to go down it. I always choose an alternative entrance.
***Monophobia - Fear of being alone****
Quite frankly since I have a co-worker who just yaps and blabbers all day long 2 days on the weekend of peace and quite is just fine with me.
***Bibliomania - Excessive interest in books****
I might have that one. I have a ton of books I need to read. ***Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women***
Is it fear or is it just low expectations. LOL!
I never favour sweet or savoury I like both and can often eat mixture of the 2.
For example supper (British name for snack before bed) the last few nights have been 2 slices of bread and butter one spread with marmalade (sweet) and one spread with marmite (savoury).
Depends what site I am visiting whether I use IE or Firefox.
Not really into either board or card games apart from trival pursuit
Windows
Have also been known to freeze crossing the road and only like to cross when cars are stationary either side of traffic lights.
Used to have a fear of wasps and bees until I was stung after being stung the fear has gone somewhat.
Worms and spiders do not worry me and can easy pick up either in fact I used to chase my dad with worms as a child as he has an irrational fear of worms and snakes.
What’s on the reading list?
I just finished “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne (NOT coinciding with the lame-looking movie that’s coming out) and “The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain. I’ve begun reading The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, and I’m also reading The Tolkien Fan’s Medieval Reader, which is a compilation of ancient mythology.
I used to be terrified of bees and wasps, even after being stung. Then I got a little bigger and realized that they’re all just a pack of tiny bugs that deserve annihilation. (The bees I let live, they’ve never bothered me. The wasps and bumblebees on the other hand...)
In fact, just the other day I used a pressure washer to jet away a wasp’s nest under the gutter of the second floor. ‘Twas a thing of beauty...
But not spiders?
Bees you do not hurt (nor do I) but bublebees you do I thought bees and bumblebees were the same.
Or do you mean blowflies?
Snugs, I have an English to American question for you, if you don’t mind. The other day I was watching “Notes on a Scandal” and Judy Dentch says, “As my mother used to say, ‘The boy done her like a kipper’.” What does that mean? I hope it’s not something dirty, because I will be really embarrassed. LOL
Savor meaning something spicy or salty or otherwise flavorful. Cake is sweet, beef jerky is savor. Chocolate is sweet, salted nuts would be savor.
Traditionally smoked kippers
The saying means to be conned or framed
I think I would actually prefer savor, although sweet is OK.
I just finished reading David McCullough's 1776 and so I thought I would start reading John Adams. I also started reading a book on Teddy Roosevelt called Lion In The Winter. This book in kind of a short book. Also with the election and all I thought I might read Unfit For Command. I bought this book when it came out in 2004 but I never read it.
Thank you!
I’m also reading thru the Pope Benedicts book on Jesus.
Probably the saying comes from being hung out to dry like the kippers are after being smoked.
Ooooh...okay that makes sense.
By the way a naturally smoked kipper like most natural smoked fish is lovely but so many these days are coloured and flavoured not true smoke fish.
By the way a naturally smoked kipper like most natural smoked fish is lovely but so many these days are coloured and flavoured not true smoke fish.
The Swift Boat book? I’ve got two copies, let me know if you need extras. :-)
Dave Barry is confusing the Latin word for wolf with the Greek word. The Greek word (anglicized) is lycos, as in lycanthropy. But it can also mean “spider” — but so far as I can figure, it is specifically a hairy spider reminiscent of a wolf.
The folks at Lycos.com used to have a spider on their site...then at some point they added a dog...not sure if someone pointed out the thorough meaning of lycos.
The more common word for spider is “arachne,” whence “arachnophobia.”
It looks like there are three Greek words for “spider web” — chiton, theratron, and histos. My Greek is a bit too weak to recommend any of them.
Why not both?
2. Firefox or Internet Explorer?
ie
3. Board games or card games?
Is alcohol consumption involved?
4. Mac or Windows?
With the errors I get on Windows Vista, next one is gonna be a Mac...I'll also be resetting my Gateway back to factory specifications to get back to XP and then spend a month getting all of the patches for it. Vista disks may be good for skeet shooting.
She quit working the poverty sector because the nuts took over and we are getting peer supported, client centered and directed, recovery based treatment. At that center she treated everyone like they were dumb as a box of rocks and all crack addicts.
Recovery works well enough for me to shop for a shrink in the private sector and found a mighty genuine and compassionate one about the same week she got hired.
On my second visit there was an "error in scheduling" and I could see the "new NP."
She treats the private sector like they are humans. I did my best to be polite, but I will be prepared to NEVER see her again and stay with someone I am comfortable with.
savor, firefox, windows (dont have a mac) and cards (love bridge, canasta & pinochle although dont play much!)
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Phobias and stuff?
Definitely pyromania - I like to play with fire probably more than is good for me. Interestingly, I’ve never been burned playing with fire, just trying to do things in the kitchen.
And... caterpillaraphobia? I don’t like caterpillars, slugs, or any sort of worm-like insect or insect larva. Earthworms, however, I do not mind.
Bonus questions:
1 - Sweet. I love sugary things.
2 - Safari. Yes, we all have a third option now... but Firefox is faster for streaming video.
3 - Either one... usually board games.
4 - Mac all the way, especially cause the Apple Developer Kit comes with this gorgeous little graphics program called Quartz Composer.
1. I like both but I prefer sweet.
2. IE
3. Both-I love card games and board games.
4. Windows
As far as phobias go, I hate spiders...unfortunately so do my daughters so whenever one is spotted in the house, I'm the person who has to get rid of it. Also I have a phobia about calling people on the phone...I don't mind them calling me but I just really hate to call others for some reason...if I need to talk to someone, I'd rather go see them in person or email them versus making that call...
And what about soaring gas prices?
Well obviously if they lived really far away, I’d do the email thing...I guess I was mostly thinking about people in my locale. I’d rather talk to them in person than via phone. It’s weird I know since everyone and their brother seems to have a cellphone attached to their ear these days.
Do you only fear touching them or does just seeing them cause the fear? Is the fear equal when you see them in your house versus running into one in the woods?
I hope the party went well. That’s a lucky kitten in the photo, but I can imagine that not all of our hosts are very happy about that picture.
Books and shoes? What can you do with that many shoes?
The party did go well. A little strange, but hey...what do you expect from a bunch of engineers?
If anyone is really offended by the pic the moderators will remove it, but there are much more racy photos posted in various other threads.
Went out 2 nights this week, tonight is a night in. Anybody play poker online? Or, failing that...anyone have anything interesting to do online? I’m already halfway through my novel for the month.
Bill
Those look delicious.
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