The sketchy and inconsistent blog of Bethie Engstrom...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Oddities in this world

Honestly, who comes up with this stuff?!

Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing
Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers   {Mawhaha - feel the power!}
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.  {"ah, yes, that explains it."}
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting
Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother  {I could understand that}
Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.   {"oooookkkkaaaayyy...?}
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias {!}
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat

4 comments:

Celtic Traveler said...

How can anyone be scared of a BELLYBUTTON?!!!

Thanks, these made my day:)

Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHA, that's HILARIOUS!!!!!
ROFL teenagers. rooms? stepmother XD

Fear of phobias was AWESOMENESS. all of these are so funny.

thanks for sharing!!!

Cassandra said...

Those are so bazaar. The person who thought all of these up has WAY too much time on their hands...

Love ya!
Cass

P.S. Have you ever read 'The Book of Useless Information'? Look it up. It's pretty funny.

A Reformed Hippie said...

The fear of books, I shall never get!

But I mean some of these are ridiculous! Are you sure you are not just making this up?