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    I'm more interested in why 'a sudden need has arisen' .
    
    Where did they say the party *was* ?
    
    John J

    solophobia?
    
    As opposed to soloflexophobia, which is fear of exercize machines. 

Primaphobia

    re .0
    
>    (Sorry for the new topic, but I couldn't find the other phobia notes -
>    if somebody knows where they are, please let me know and I'll relocate
>    this.) 
    

    The "phobia" note is 470 (reply .21 is particularly frightening).
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    roger
    

    I think `protophobia' might please pedantic neologists a bit more
    than `primaphobia', as both roots are Greek (not that this has to
    matter, cf `television'). But both words might reasonably be
    interpreted as `fear of first ones' or `fear of being first 
    [in the sense "taking first place"]'. I have a vague memory
    of a Greek verb `molein' being something to do with arriving
    (though maybe you have to be on a horse to `molein' properly -
    that's the only context I remember it in): so `protomolophobia'?
    

    What's wrong with English?
    
    b

    protomolophobia sounds good - confusing but good.
    how about prototypophobia - no that's fear of not FRS slipping...
    
    how about primoxenophobia - fear of being the one of the first ones 
    there and not knowing anybody else.
    
    tardyphobia - fear of being so late that everyone's gone by the
    time you get there....as opposed to tardysphobia, fear of time travel
    in telephone boxes....
    
    

    
    And what about fear of entering another note on the same topic
    because your note searches failed to find matches on the "keywords"
    that you used. This fear is most oft symptomized by the introductory
    lines:
    
    " Sorry if this has already been discussed before, but..."
    
    jc 

    At the risk of being overpleased with my own cleverness, I still
    like the one I came up with in 470.19.
    
    --- jerry

    Fear of being overpleased with ones own cleverness -
    autowithubrisphobia!  Y not?
    

 But there's already a perfectly good word for "fear of peanut butter
sticking to the roof of one's mouth." The following appeared in "Trivia"
several years ago.

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UCOUNT::SYSTEM "Bill Lynch"                           3 lines   4-JUN-1986 22:40
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    What is arachibutyrophobia?
    
    -- Bill
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NERSW5::MCKENDRY "King of Rumania"                    6 lines   4-JUN-1986 23:56
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    Isn't that the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
    one's mouth? I think it's already in here somewhere.
     You don't suppose there's only a finite number of trivia questions,
    do you? Frightening thought.
    
    -John
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UCOUNT::SYSTEM "Bill Lynch"                           6 lines   5-JUN-1986 23:00
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    You are correct that it is the fear of peanut butter sticking to
    the roof of one's mouth.
    
    You are also probably correct that it is in here somewhere else.
    
    -- Bill
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VENTUR::PREVIDI "Glory Jee to Besus"                  5 lines   8-JUN-1986 20:18
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    Sorry guys,you're both wrong. 
    It means the fear of rubber spiders. ;-)
        
      Jack
    
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NERSW5::MCKENDRY "Medium John"                       11 lines   9-JUN-1986 03:17
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    .3 echos a common misunderstanding, attributable to the
    similarity of the Classical Greek words for "peanut butter"
    and "rubber spider", particularly in the Attic dialect. In fact,
    most scholars now believe that transpositions of the two words
    by semi-literate Mediaeval monk-scribes (familiar with one word
    but not the other) account for numerous bewildering passages in
    Homer and the tragedians, especially Aeschylus, and translators
    routinely substitute "peanut butter" for "rubber spider" and vice
    versa in these works when it improves the sense.
    
    -John
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NERSW5::MCKENDRY "Medium John"                       14 lines   9-JUN-1986 12:31
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 For example, in the Odyssey, it's now accepted that the ploy by
which Odysseus got past Cerberus and into Hades involved a large
plate of peanut butter, not rubber spiders. On the other hand, in
the Iliad, the attack which created such panic among the Achaean
camps in the seventh year of the siege is now generally accepted
to have been a catapult bombardment of rubber spiders, not peanut
butter (Titian's famous painting of this scene, while certainly of
great artistic merit, is not historically accurate); and understanding
that Hektor's shield was blazoned with the device of a rubber spider,
not covered with peanut butter, explains both how it was said to
"cause great fear among the Achaeans" and why Athene was so affronted
by it.

-John
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STAR::BECK "Paul Beck"                                3 lines   9-JUN-1986 22:50
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    Just to illustrate how confusing things got, some scholars now
    believe the great Trojan Spider which brought about the fall
    of Troy was actually constructed of peanut brittle.
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NERSW5::MCKENDRY "Kind of Cute, For a Dweeb"          3 lines  11-JUN-1986 19:17
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    Gee, I wasn't aware of that...
    
    -John

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 (After this the replies began to drift from the topic, so I've removed them.)

    Thanks to all for your suggestions re my original question (and
    for the entertaining stream of consciousness that resulted, especially
    .11 - an excerpt from the salad days of TRIVIA!). 
    
    I came across a new one recently, and thought it might be of interest.
    
    ANATIDAEPHOBIA: 
    
	    The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
				    [Courtesy of Gary Larsen]
    
    I *knew* there had to be a word for that.
    
    Now - how about the fear that the contractor is never going to show
    up again, and you will spend the rest of your life with random piles
    of dirt and lumber scattered over your property?
    
    -b

    That's not fear. That's today! (Come see my yard.)

    A phobia is an unreasonable fear.  .12 was simply a realistic
    assessment of reality.
    
    -dave

        "The unreasonable fear of or the aversion to computers."

    I didn't make this one up. It's in the books (don't ask me which ones)
    as announced on a TV news program this Thanksgiving weekend.

    Last time my co-workers went out drinking, we ordered phobia and
    two sake*.
    
    
    
    
    *Japanese rice wine.