Hello and welcome to Fibbing Friday.
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This week is a theme of phobias and I’ve given you 15 as there were so many good ones.
The idea is to have fun, be outrageous (but please keep it family friendly), silly, cheeky, or whatever takes your fancy as long as you fib your socks off.
So, what do you think these are phobias of?
Ablutophobia – fear of feeling bloated after a big meal
Androphobia – fear of anything that is not made by Apple
Ataxophobia – fear of being taxed
Autophobia – fear of cars
Bathmophobia – fear of taking a bath
Chromophobia – fear of anything not black or white
Ephebiphobia – fear of words with double letters
Genuphobia – fear of being honest
Heliophobia – Fear of floating
Nomophobia – fear of getting more of anything
Osmophobia – fear of inclusion
Podophobia – fear of tight places
Trypophobia – fear of attempting to pop balloons
Wiccaphobia – fear of witches
Zuigerphobia – fear of words starting with the letter Z
Stine Writing 
Not really. They hold auditions in several cities around the country each time, and the second time I auditioned was during COVID and the audition was done over Zoom. And the actual studio is still about 350 miles from me.
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Oh, wow! I don’t think I would know enough to make it.
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Ablutophobia – fear of Bluto, the villain from Popeye
Androphobia – fear of people named Andrew (I liked your answer)
Bathmophobia – fear of Batman; the “h” was added later through a common misspelling becoming standard
Chromophobia – fear of tricked-out chrome hubcaps
Genuphobia – fear of Gene Belcher, the kid from Bob’s Burgers
Heliophobia – fear of spirals
Nomophobia – fear of eating loudly, nom nom nom (I liked your answer)
Osmophobia – fear of wizards living in green palaces
Podophobia – fear of the thing that peas grow inside
Zuigerphobia – that’s a typo, it’s actually Luigerphobia, fear of always having to be player 2 in video games
I skipped a few, I couldn’t think of anything better than yours
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Heliophobia – good one, your nomophobia is great, Osmophobia – never would have thought of that!, Podophobia – very clever! All of yours were good! 😅
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Thanks… yours were too! If these were serious questions, I would guess fear of the sun for heliophobia, fear of men for androphobia, fear of feet for podophobia, fear of color for chromophobia, and fear of oneself for autophobia, all going by Greek root words. I don’t have any guesses for the others. (I looked them up; autophobia is more specifically fear of being alone, but I was right on the others.)
Several years ago, I was watching Jeopardy, and there was a category like this, where they said a phobia and the contestant had to say what it was the fear of. One contestant got the Daily Double in this category, and the clue was “Selenophobia.” (I play along out loud at home while watching Jeopardy, and by the same logic that I used in the previous paragraph, I said, “What is fear of the moon?” I was right.) The contestant didn’t know, and time was running out, so the contestant said, “I don’t know. What is fear of Tejano singers?” 😂😂
I shared that story on Facebook, and I added, “‘Selenophobia’ is not to be confused with ‘Célinophobia,’ which is the fear of French-Canadian pop singers. I definitely have that.”
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I was going to ask “what is a Tejano singer?” But now I see the Selene and Celine…Doesn’t it kill you when you win double jeopardy but get nothing for it??!!??!!
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Haha yes… I especially love it when I’m playing along at home, and I get Final Jeopardy right and none of the three contestants do. It makes me think I might actually have a shot if I ever get on that show. I’ve tried out four times, and two of those four times they called me back to audition, but I didn’t get on. It’s been long enough ago that I’m eligible to try again, I just haven’t gotten around to it
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Wow! I guess that is a perk of living in CA!
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Good answers Christine. Thanks for playing along.
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This was a fun one! I like when you have to guess what things mean!
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I’ll try and find more of those as they are quite popular.
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