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#201402 - 07/27/11 05:10 PM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: olly]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	Originally Posted By: olly He doesn't see your posts Luke but point taken. okay, as I've been clued in by Olly (thanx), I see what happened now, and I'd sum it up by saying I didn't see Luke's link (which defined phobia, as did I, although I explained why I did). I really can't see the "point taken", I guess, since I also defined cibophobia with my link, so it's not like I totally mantled him, even though I'd not seen his post. I'd also posit that the chances of my actually mantling Luke are slim, at best.
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#201405 - 07/27/11 06:17 PM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: LukeJavan8]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Cibophobia is a phobia of? _________________________ ONIONS, a fear of onions, cibus, cipolla, cebolla, in O.H.G. zwibolla.
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#201445 - 07/30/11 10:42 AM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: BranShea]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	it's a phobia of food in general well done to you translatey people another one if you want: Omphalophobia _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#201451 - 07/30/11 11:49 AM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: bexter]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5279 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	Just guessing here, from my Latin days: Omphales, Omphalos or something of the kind was an ancient queen, of Lydia or some such place. She had a god (Hercules????)serve her while wearing a dress. So Fear, aversion to cross-dressing????? _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#201454 - 07/30/11 11:58 AM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: LukeJavan8]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Isn't omphalos navel?
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#201455 - 07/30/11 12:04 PM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: BranShea]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	Originally Posted By: BranShea Isn't omphalos navel? sure, like in omphaloskepsis
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#201457 - 07/30/11 12:25 PM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: BranShea]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5279 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	Originally Posted By: BranShea Isn't omphalos navel? Sure, I was just remembering the laugh our class got out of the story of that queen. But that was many decades ago. And it is a phobia: so not contemplating one's navel, but an aversion of some sort. Many people today pierce their navel, no aversion there, rather attraction. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#201466 - 07/31/11 08:16 AM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: Candy]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	I can't see how being omphalophobia would be a problem ....unless they had a lint problem they had to attend to on a regular basis.
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#201471 - 07/31/11 11:39 AM Re: Know your phobia's [Re: Candy]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	excepting the last, these are 'real'.
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#201482 - 07/31/11 04:37 PM FDR said it [Re: tsuwm]
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3782 Loc: Worcester, MA	(...mixing his languages maybe) "PHOBOPHOBIA - res ipse loquitur" -- "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself ." In a manner of speaking... (Does that sound like the germ of a double-dactyl to anyone else?
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