January 12, 2008

Game Time!

The set-up: I'm going to list 30 terms. 30 phobias, actually. You're job, either through comments, or on your own, is to see if you know what they are. No cheating! Monday, I'll will post hints for each, and then Wednesday or Thursday or some such, I'll post the answers in a backdated post and give you the link (so you can still play if you get behind in your readings).
Disclaimer: I in no way intend to make fun of anyone with any of the listed phobias.
Oh, and when I post the answers I'll post the website I got them from (it has many more), in case you aren't sure these are real.
Ready?

  1. Alektorophobia: think the evil penguin from Wallace & Grommet: the Wrong Trousers
  2. Alliumphobia: Good thing dad doesn't have this... or spaghetti's favorite side. 
  3. Asymmetriphobia: see # 29
  4. Aulophobia: good thing Mike doesn't have this, although you may experience it if you work with beginner band members
  5. Automatonophobia: my least favorite Twilight Zone episode may be the cause of this
  6. Barophobia: What goes up...
  7. Catoptrophobia: Who's the fairest of them all?
  8. Chionophobia: Move south if you've got this one!
  9. Consecotaleophobia: I wonder if they mean the utensil or the music?
  10. Ecclesiophobia: bad for me! probably goes with #17
  11. Ephebiphobia: why I will never teach high school
  12. Eremophobia: Might be a cause to believe in a higher power
  13. Geliophobia: fairies are born from the source of this fear
  14. Geniophobia: Big Bad Wolf may have had this
  15. Graphophobia: perhaps doctors are to blame
  16. Hellenologophobia: you'd even be afraid of saying the name of your fear
  17. Homilophobia: bad for me! probably goes with #10
  18. Lachanophobia: many children suffer from this
  19. Limnophobia: Don't go to Minnesota!
  20. Lutraphobia: Don't go to our farm, or watch Bear in the Big Blue House
  21. Mageirocophobia: Might be solved by eating out
  22. Melophobia: don't go to the FAC!
  23. Myrmecophobia: Bear has this
  24. Nomatophobia: Don't read Chronicles!
  25. Ouranophobia: Do you have a problem with cream cheese?
  26. Phronemophobia: I suffer from this occasionally, and children suffer from it especially during the summer
  27. Pteronophobia: see #1
  28. Sinistrophobia: they do it backwards!
  29. Symmetrophobia: see #3
  30. Xenoglossophobia: hope you don't ever travel
And I'll give you four bonus phobias that I named myself, using real Greek and Latin:
  1. Concerophobia: you'd be afraid of me me
  2. Mosticophobia: this game would scare you
  3. Pleximophobia: mom's food and hand might have this, although my warm ears don't!
  4. Portocaliphobia: don't come to Wartburg if you've got this one!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Panda! Aunt in Kansas here. *waves in roughly northerly direction* Just wanted to welcome you back to the midwest.

I've been having an enjoyable several minutes reading your latest blog entries, all while making soup. (Here's why I love making soup. You do all the prep work and put it in the pot, and then all the while it's simmering, you can be doing other things, like reading blogs, and yet you can rightly claim that you are, in fact, preparing dinner.)

Jane Austen's "Persuasion" is on Masterpiece (formerly Masterpiece Theatre) in less than an hour. Yay!

Must start corn muffins now.

Anonymous said...

And I had to leave one more comment because it says "1 comments" at the bottom, and that's going to bug me all night, so I will make it correctly plural.

No, I'm not related to anyone you know; why do you ask??? :)

Anonymous said...

Guesses:
3) Asymmetriphobia- fear of asymmetry
5) Automatonophobia- fear of dummies and dolls
6) Barophobia- fear of... pressure?
10) Ecclesiophobia- fear of church
12) Eremophobia- fear of being alone, also known as autophobia
15) Graphophobia- fear of writing
16) Hellenologophobia- fear of Greek
17) Homilophobia- fear of sermons

#16 and #17 would be kind of unfortunate for you, wouldn't they?

24) Nomatophobia- fear of names
28) Sinistrophobia- fear of left-handed people
29) Symmetrophobia- fear of symmetry
30) Xenoglossophobia- fear of foreign tongues?