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cuffy 02-03-06 08:58 PM

Malcolm Lowry had pnigophobia—the fear of choking on fish bones.

Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.

Androphobia is a fear of men.

Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.

Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

fizzwheel 02-03-06 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cuffy
Scoobsophobia is a fear of being looked at.

:shock: I always thought he liked the attention

valleyboy 02-03-06 09:15 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol:



I feel sorry for whover has this:
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women



I thought this was normal with married men??
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law


Again, thought most men had this as well:
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

tricky 02-03-06 09:44 PM

Some bike related facts:

Suzuki started out making looms for the textile industry.
BSA started out making rifles
Jaguar cars started life as Swallow Sidecars.
MV Agusta started out making Aeroplanes, the first MV bike was called the "Vespa" but was later renamed after it was discovered Piaggio made a scooter of the same name.

Stingo 03-03-06 10:25 AM

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The word "queuing" is the only word in the English language to have five consecutive vowels.

Erm...u...e...u...i....hmmm, why does the number 4 spring to mind?

:-k :lol:

Euouae has six consecutive vowels and, yes, it is a real word.

Correct spelling of queueing.

Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice.

Eunoia, six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.

Caesious, eight letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels in alphabetical order.

More here


http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml



How about 'Flooooozy'?! :lol:

cuffy 03-03-06 10:56 AM

Animal facts from me today :D

Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

Deer can't eat hay.

The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Giraffes can't cough.

Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

K 03-03-06 11:36 AM

As the season is upon us - Oscars from me:

Vito Corleone is the only role to achieve two oscars - Marlon Brando (Best Actor) in The Godfather and Robert De Niro (Best Supporting Actor) in The Godfather Part II.

The only films to win 11 Oscars are Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings; Return of the King - the last being the only film to have won in all the categories for which it was nominated.

The only twins to win Oscars were Julius and Philip Epstien for Casablanca.

The only actor to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year was Al Pacino in 1992.

The only person to ever open the Oscar envelope to find their own name inside was Irving Berlin for Best Song (White Christmas, 1942).

Actors whose only Oscars have been awarded for Directing; Robert Redford (Ordinary People), Warren Beatty (Reds), Richard Attenborough (Ghandi), Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves) and Mel Gibson (Braveheart).

Scooby Drew 03-03-06 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sharriso74
Fanta was originally invented by Max Keith in Germany in 1940 when World War II made it difficult to get the Coca-Cola syrup to Nazi Germany. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam production. The name comes from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from the strange mix.


Can of cheese anyone?

Fanta contains more sugar than Coca Cola...

mysteryjimbo 03-03-06 01:11 PM

On the subject of oscars

James Dean is the only person to receive 2 posthumous Oscar nominations

cuffy 06-03-06 12:30 PM

Food n Drink today :D

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

The first U.S. consumer product sold in the old Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.


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