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Click the topics below to reveal some random facts that I either found funny or that have earned there place here on laazy. These facts come from a number of sources. One day, I'll cite everything. Enjoy!

 

Phobias

Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Microphobia- Fear of small things.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Technophobia- Fear of technology.
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons. (I don't know.)
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

Quotes

"I'd rather be a failure than a Bureaucrat!"
- Matt Peterson

"I posses no postulation regarding that of which you speaketh."
- max_altitude (from macrumors.com)

"We goin' downstairs and tellin' them we had accidents."
- Terri

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, except mine is the only right one."
- Drew

"I'm forced to rate the bogosity of this slice at 53.7."
- Chris

"My driving style does not revolve around driving slow and trying to catch yellow lights."
- Kevin Pavesic

"Proofs - The staples of math."
- Me

 

Thought provoking questions

1.) Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?

2.) How come we say 'It's colder than hell outside' when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?

3.) Why are the commercials for cable companies on cable but not on regular television? Don't they want the people without cable to buy the cable?

4.) Why do you get in trouble for blocking an exit when you're standing in the doorway? In case of an emergency, wouldn't you run out, too, therefore NOT blocking the exit?

5.) Why is snow white and ice clear? Aren't they just different forms of water?

6.) If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?

7.) If you don't pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed?

8.) If your name is Mr. Crunch, and you joined the Navy, would you eventually be Captain Crunch?

9.) Why do you have to "put your two cents in" but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going too?

10.) Do stuttering people stutter when they're thinking to themselves?

11.) Are children who use sign language allowed to talk with their mouth full?

12.) What happens when you say “hi” to your friend on an airplane who's name is Jack?

13.) Why is it illegal to put money in other people's parking meters?

14.) When lightning strikes the ocean why don't all the fish die?

15.) Why do bullies always ask, "What's your problem," when they are obviously not going to solve it.

16.) Do stairs do up or down?

17.) If the sky is the limit, then what is space, over the limit?

18.) What happens if you put this side up facing down while popping microwave popcorn?

19.) If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel though time, wouldn't we now be seeing people from the future?

20.) Why do people say PIN number when that is truly Personal Identification Number number?

21.) Can a person choke and die on a Life Savor?

22.) When you snap your fingers, does the sound occur when your middle finger releases from your thumb, or when your middle finger hits the palm of you hand?

23.) When you put "THE" and "IRS" togeter, it forms "THEIRS." Coincidence? I think not.

24.) If anything's possible, then is it possible that nothing's possible?

25.) Have you ever thought what life would be like if your name was Anonymous? You'd get credit for everything nobody wanted credit for.

26.) If you decide that you're indecisive, which are you?

27.) If you drop soap on the ground, is it dirty? You can't clean it off, its already soap.

28.) If your friend says, "I'm going outside to get some air," what was he breathing inside?

29.) Why do we close doors and windows to reduce noise, considering that sound travels better through solids?

 

Thou droning, rude-growing giglet!
You rotting, rectangle nut cracker!

 

Way to annoy someone (11): Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

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