Saturday, April 02, 2005

Movie list

I was researching Phobia's on the net for my tuition students... you wont believe some of the phobia's out there...

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions. (I think I know a lot of people suffering from this :p)
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold. (Are you kidding me?!)
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks. (After studying them for history.. ya I might have)
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting. (What are the poor sobs supposed to do then?)
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. (You have got to be kidding me!)
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed. (What are the poor sobs supposed to do then?!)
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. (We were all suffering from this at some point in time man!)
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (Wahahahaha!)
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion. (......)
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing. (What Thomas does not have ;P)
Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking. (What ELKS definitely does not have)
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother. (Go Cinderella!)
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams. (What Eka most certainly does not have)
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven. (So dance with devil instead?)
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating. (......)
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

*shakes head*