Angoraphobia: A fear of soft fuzzy sweaters.
(not necessarily their contents!)
Triscuitneckophobia.
Fear of getting cracker crumbs down your collar.
Doperphobia.
Fear of message board retribution.
Let us say, “spirited debate.”
Answering machines, and it’s NOT silly. I think that after you leave a message, you should have access to your own message for the next hour and be able to erase it.
Clausophobia - fear that a fat jolly elf will break into your house in the middle of the night.
MS Phobia 2000 : The fear of Microsoft.
When first purchased by Microsoft in the early 1980’s, it was known as CPM Phobia. While in beta, it was not taken seriously and only looked upon as an insignificant phobia. It first was utilized as part of the IBM corporate business strategy for selling its 1st first personal computers. Of course once their pc’s became a hit, it was a just matter of time before it would become a world-wide problem for over 90% of the irrational fear population.
Now up to version 2000, MS Phobia is being marketed as the all encompassing irrational fear, replacing MS Phobia 98 and 4.0, as the irrational fear of choice for all who wish to stay competative in todays cut-throat market.
Though it is claimed to be completely downward compatible with previous versions of MS Phobia, it does appear to show some compatiblity problems:
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Those able to reasonably work their way out of an irrational fear in versions 95 and 98 via 3rd party utilities such as Norton Head Doctor, Head Shrinker 2.0, and Symantic PsycoTherapy, will find that their software no longer works in version 2000. Upgrades have yet to be announced.
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MS Phobia 2000 will not run anything written for MS Phobia 3.1 and below.
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It will not run properly or not run at all on older people with less memory capacity.
Service Pack 1 has been released, but still has not fixed many of the bugs that showed up in 2000, 98, and even 95, including the urge to stop screaming and yelling, resulting in a complete reset of brain.
Celophobia–a fear of cel phones.
Fillerupophobia–a horror of gas pumps.
Celofillerupophobia–a fear of using a cel phone near a gas pump.
Grabophobia–a fear of reaching a hand into dark enclosed places.
Cyanophobia–an unreasonable obsession about cyanide.
Hypophobia–an irrational fear of hypodermic needles.
PINophobia–a horror of ATM machines.
PINograbocyanohypophobia–a horror of reaching a hand into an ATM machine and encountering a hypodermic needle with cyanide on it.
Then there’s MickeyDeeoballpitocyanohypophobia…
personophobia - the fear of being someone other than myself
flyswattophobia - fear of flyswatters
forealdophobia - fear of something fake
i dunno if this is silly…i don’t have a fancyphobia name for it…but i don’t like cockaroaches…i hate cockaroaches…no, i actually HATE cockaroaches.
Thank you, Sands!! I’m so glad to know I’m not alone. I not only really, really HATE them, but as it turns out, I’m allergic to them too!
Actually, terrified SHUDDER might be a better word. :eek:
As to the OP: hmmm… does Celibacophobia count?
Bees… they freak me out. There are 3 bee hives in my back yard too. I don’t go to that part of the back yard, ever and completey go psycho when my kids even look in that direction.
~Tracie
Sands, you are suffering from blattophobia.
Tracey, you are suffering from apiphobia.
My favorite phobia is aibohphobia, fear of palindromes.
In my Abnormal Psych class my teacher gave us a list of cool fears, I recall santaclaustrophobia, fear of chimneys.
This is a real one (but I don’t have it):
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens
There are a lot more atphobialist.com including Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons. What’s a Walloon?
A Walloon is a type of Belgian. Southern Belgian, if I am not mistaken.
I have centidrainophobia (pede-o-drainophobia?) - the fear of a centipede crawling up out of the sink drain. This has happened to me twice, and I fear their return.
I’m afraid of the dark, and of stuff I don’t know about coming to get me in the night. I’m also afraid of people I don’t know. And grrls, sometimes.
I don’t know if this is silly or not, but I live in constant dread of being written up, fired, jailed for something I was falsely accused of.
I think it comes from a childhood of being punished for my kid sister’s misdeeds, reinforced by once being punished at school for making faces through a second story window at the kids waiting to come back inside after recess. A bunch of other kids had gathered at the window, I just wandered over to see what was going on.
Then at my old job back in Indiana, a co-worker once went to my supervisor and falsely claimed that I had sprayed Lysol in her eyes (we used it for disinfecting mouthpieces of wind instruments). It occured to several co-workers who had heard the complaint that if she had actually been sprayed in the eyes with a chemical, she would have been running for the bathroom sink to rinse her eyes out before going to the boss and demanding that I be fired.
So, anyway, that’s my fear.
clausophobia II - fear of poor sentence structure.
Singingshatnerphobia: Fear of commercials featuring William Shatner singing.