Thursday, October 25, 2012

Famous Fears and False Phobias

--C.D. Tolliver

Sinister sinusoidal slitherers:

Odious ophidiophobia.

Barking baleful beasts:

Syncopated cynophobia.

Mewling maniacal menaces:

Awful ailurophobia.

Fiendish finny phantasms:

Icky ichthyphobia.

Scorpizophobia:

Scary scatterings or scorpions?

Platypodophobia:

Fatal philosophical flat-footedness?

Pantophobia:

Dangerous denim dungarees?

7 comments:

  1. Is there anything you're not afraid of? :) Or are you too afraid to find out? haha really great work.

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    1. Pantophobia actually is the fear of everything.

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  2. Wow. I'm just afraid of getting noticed. I wonder what that is called. Psychotic, likely, especially as I seem to specialise in calling attention to myself. Haaaalp!

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    1. Er ... and what I really meant to say was that this was a pleasure to attempt to read ... and imagine what it would sound like if I were fluid enough to say all those words out loud. My imagination enjoyed the perfection of it very much.

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  3. Brilliant! I think you ought to submit a couple of these to have them admitted into the dictionary. Platypodophobia is a good one and scorpizophobia. So creative!

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    1. Platypodophobia could also be the fear of duck-billed platypuses.

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