Friday, October 31, 2008
Kind of interesting but lame and hilarious lahs.
Welcome to the 21st century Fear has a new name.
Readers of new scientist magazine recently discussed a list of phobias found at http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/.
Here's a sample of some of the most bizarre ones :
Lutraphobia : the fear of otters
Nucleomituphobia : the abnormal fear or hatred of nuclear weapons
Odontophobia : the fear of dental work
Octophobia : the fear of the figure eight
Globophobia : the fear of ballons!
Ablutophobia : the fear of bathing ?
Rhytiphobia : the fear of wrinkles
Telephonophobia : the fear of telephones
Pupaphobia : the fear of puppets
Pentheraphobia : the fear of your MOTHER-IN-LAW