Friday, March 9, 2012

All Together, Now--Panic!

We are in a kind of panic because we have just learned that March 9 is International Panic Day. Here it is half over, and we haven't panicked once.

Well, there's still time. We have trotted out some of our favorite phobias, in hope of creating serious panic. Here is aeronausiphobia--fear of airsickness. We fear being stuck in the centre seat between two people who are rapidly turning green and crying "Where's that bag?"

Then there is neophobia--fear of anything new. And ablutophobia--fear of bathing. And cyberphobia, which is, of course, a morbid fear of computers.

Some phobias come in pairs--among them peladophobia, which is a fear of bald persons (comes from watching "Kojak" at an impressionable age) and phalacrophobia, the fear of going bald oneself.

International Panic Day is co-sponsored by the Sky is Falling Committee.  Chicken-licken says "Have a scary day."

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