Thursday, July 26, 2007

Thursday Thirteen: Phobias that start with T

Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.

Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.

Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.

Thanatophobia - Fear of death or dying.

Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.

Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.

Teutotaurotoxithanataphobia - Fear of being poisoned by a bull with German measles, nearly dying and being buried anyway for good measure.

Technophobia- Fear of technology.

Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.

Trichophobia- Fear of hair.

Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.

Technotomotrichophobia - Fear of a new fangled hair club for men implant procedure.

and finally,

Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.

6 comments:

Alana said...

What about fear of making your blog public?

Anonymous said...

You forgot two of mine… uh, I mean, two of my favorites:


Theologicophobia - fear of theology

and…

Taeniophobia - fear of tapeworms

Chris said...

I was going to mention Theosanguitaeniophobio --- fear of theocratic red tape.

Anonymous said...

In case you didn't know, I love you man!

Chris said...

I love you too Rich. I also must confess I harbor some tinge of envy of your writing skills.

Janelle said...

Uh...don't mean to interrupt the "man love" but just wanted to say good list! Never knew people could be so messed up.

 
C