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A song Luke, a song.

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AAAAHH, I should have guessed.


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Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

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Of course! Because I'm actually…Sally Vaiting.

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Poor Pavlov.


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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
Of course! Because I'm actually…Sally Vaiting.


smile

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You know what its like on Wall Street, business are taken over or merge all the time and have to be renamed......sometimes with humours results: laugh


Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace.

Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge to become Polly-Warner-Cracker.

3M and Goodyear merge to become MMMGood.

John Deere and Abitibi-Price merge to become Deere Abi.

Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining merge to become Zip Audi Do Da.

Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil merge to become Honey I'm Home.

Denison Mines, and Alliance and Metal Mining merge to become Mine All Mine.

Federal Express and UPS merge to become FED UP.

Xerox and Wurlitzer will merge and begin manufacturingreproductive organs.

Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will merge and become Fairwell Honeychild.

3M, J.C. Penney and the Canadian Opera Company will merge and become 3 Penney Opera.

Knott's Berry Farm & National Organization of Women will merge and become Knott NOW!

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Adding to your 'sally vaiting', I see. These are clever.


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Not my 'original thoughts' I just found them somewhere.....but I thought them well worded.

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Originally Posted By: Candy
Not my 'original thoughts' I just found them somewhere.....but I thought them well worded.



I sent them to one friend who said "SCROAN" - It's her
word for Screech and Groan. Loved it, she meant.


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Thanks Luke....its good to hear words are spreading.


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Just a quick quiz.....either check answers yourself or I can mark your reply for you smirk

1. The obsessive fear of tight, enclosed spaces is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. acrophobia
C. claustrophobia
D. klaustrophobia

2. The obsessive fear of open public places is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. acrophobia
C. klaustrophobia
D. xenophobia

3. The obsessive fear of foreigners is called:
A. acrophobia
B. xenophobia
C. agoraphobia
D. claustrophobia

4. The obsessive fear of high places is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. claustrophobia
C. hippophobia
D. acrophobia

5. The obsessive fear of the French is called:
A. Hellenophobia
B. Gallophobia
C. Francephobia
D. Frenchyphobia

6. The medical name for rabies is:
A. homophobia
B. hypophobia
C. hyperphobia
D. hydrophobia

7. The obsessive fear of Greeks is called:
A. Hellenophobia
B. Grekophobia
C. Athenophobia
D. Greekophobia

8. The obsessive fear of animals is called:
A. hippophobia
B. animophobia
C. xylophobia
D. zoophobia

9. The obsessive fear of deep water is called:
A. dipsophobia
B. acrophobia
C. bathyphobia
D. hydrophobia

10. The obsessive fear of horses is called:
A. equinophobia
B. hippophobia
C. bovinophobia
D. orsophobia

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Originally Posted By: Candy
Just a quick quiz.....either check answers yourself or I can mark your reply for you smirk

1. The obsessive fear of tight, enclosed spaces is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. acrophobia
C. claustrophobia
D. klaustrophobia

2. The obsessive fear of open public places is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. acrophobia
C. klaustrophobia
D. xenophobia

3. The obsessive fear of foreigners is called:
A. acrophobia
B. xenophobia
C. agoraphobia
D. claustrophobia

4. The obsessive fear of high places is called:
A. agoraphobia
B. claustrophobia
C. hippophobia
D. acrophobia

5. The obsessive fear of the French is called:
A. Hellenophobia
B. Gallophobia
C. Francephobia
D. Frenchyphobia

6. The medical name for rabies is:
A. homophobia
B. hypophobia
C. hyperphobia
D. hydrophobia

7. The obsessive fear of Greeks is called:
A. Hellenophobia
B. Grekophobia
C. Athenophobia
D. Greekophobia

8. The obsessive fear of animals is called:
A. hippophobia
B. animophobia
C. xylophobia
D. zoophobia

9. The obsessive fear of deep water is called:
A. dipsophobia
B. acrophobia
C. bathyphobia
D. hydrophobia

10. The obsessive fear of horses is called:
A. equinophobia
B. hippophobia
C. bovinophobia
D. orsophobia


My answers checked in white. Mouse over to see.

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bathophobia. My friend Phoebus says so.

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I remember that list of phobias somewhere on this sight
or was it WOTD? Baffling.


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hehe and my personal favourite phobia name

arachibutyrophobia

and guesses as to what it is a phobia of? laugh


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Originally Posted By: Faldage
[quote=Candy]....
My answers checked in white. Mouse over to see.


Well done Faldo 100%, but then thats to be expected.


re-arachibutyrophobia, Bex...I don't know....something to do with arches and butter.....maybe walking through butter with bare feet?

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arachibutyrophobia = fear of flaming spiders?

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Fear of spiders eating peanut butter? wink

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Fear of treatment for schizophrenia by immersions in arachide oil. ????

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Eeeuuuuuu! ! !


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haha you are sorta close wink but not


arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

nothing to do with spiders I am afraid...hehe


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Considering how many meals I make of Peanut Butter, it is
a good thing that is not one of my phobias.


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haha yes indeedy!
My all time favourite sandwich

roast chicken and peanut butter

mmmm laugh


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I'll have to give that a try: new one to me.


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How about pb and banana?

Sandwich.

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Oh, no--no, no, no. We will NOT have another thread about sandwiches! Been there, done that, and it was awful.

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Sorry, Jackie; musta been before my time, huh? Or have I been (heh, heh) loafing?

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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Oh, no--no, no, no. We will NOT have another thread about sandwiches! Been there, done that, and it was awful.
mmm...salads?

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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
How about pb and banana?

Sandwich.




Heard about that all my life, have never done that. But have a
friend who makes PB and dill pickles.


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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Oh, no--no, no, no. We will NOT have another thread about sandwiches! Been there, done that, and it was awful.


Sorry Jackie, as Trom says, it must have been before my time too.
and you know how things go, cycles. The discussion was about
phobias and the word for the fear of PB stuck on your palate
before it evolved/regressed.


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hehe before myn too wink
to drag it back on topic...any guesses as to what

Cibophobia
is a phobia of?


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Fear of sandwiches? of digressions?

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well, cibus is L. for food..

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I wish I'd learnt Latin. I think you must be correct Ts.... Cibophobia might be the fear of food!

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Because "cibus" is food (from my Latin days), I'd say
something related to food, but being a fear, is it related
to fear of food? Like Anorexia? Some sort of food-related
disorder.

I confess, because honesty is important, that I looked it up
in my dictionary, but it is not there. (It is not on the
scroll down list, that is.) And that is as far as I looked
and had it been I would not post.


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phobia

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Originally Posted By: Candy
I wish I'd learnt Latin. I think you must be correct Ts.... Cibophobia might be the fear of food!


it should be noted, at this point, that phobia is being too narrowly defined as 'fear', to wit (from AHD4):

2) A strong fear, dislike, or aversion

so cibophobia is more likely defined as :dislike or aversion to food: link

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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
Because "cibus" is food (from my Latin days), I'd say
something related to food, but being a fear, is it related
to fear of food? Like Anorexia? Some sort of food-related
disorder.

I confess, because honesty is important, that I looked it up
in my dictionary, but it is not there. (It is not on the
scroll down list, that is.) And that is as far as I looked
and had it been I would not post.


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phobia


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He doesn't see your posts Luke but point taken.

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Thanks, Olly, very much.
I did not know how the "ignore" works. Seems like he misses
out on a lot. Must be difficult living that way.
Thanks, again.


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