STICKS AND STONES

Jason posted this link to a list of phobias. I lost about half an hour to it. There’s a fear for everything (panophobia). I’ve categorized a few of the better ones.

Fears that amuse me:

• peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth (arachibutyrophobia)
• fear of Bolesheviks (boleshephobia)
• fear of the pope (papaphobia)

Fears that make a lot of sense:

• being severely beaten by a rod (rhabdophobia)
• rape (virginitiphobia
• pain (odynophobia)

Fears that have applied to me at one time or another:

• dark (nyctophobia)
• injections (trypanophobia)
• oral surgery (odontophobia).

What-the-hell fears:

• chins (geniophobia)
• flutes (aulophobia)
• objects on the right side of the body (dextrophobia)

Sucks-to-be-you fears:

• music (melophobia)
• poetry (metrophobia)
• wines (oenophobia)
• kissing (pilemaphobia)
• falling in love (philophobia)

Good-luck-with-that fears:

• time (chronophobia)
• thinking (phronemophobia)
• gravity (barophobia)

But my favorite fear of all time is hippopotomonstrososesquipedaliophobia. Fear of long words.

3:25 p.m.