22nd July 2012 Doctor, Doctor! - A Phobia Story

'Doctor O'Hara,' Ranjit pleaded, 'I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. You gotta help me, I'm going crazy.'

'Just put yourself in my hands for two years,' said Dr O'Hara, the psychiatrist, 'Come and see me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears.'

 

'How much do you charge?'

'A hundred dollars per visit.'

'In that case, I'll sleep on it,' answered Ranjit.

Six months later the doctor met Ranjit in the street.

'Why didn't you ever come to see me again?' asked the psychiatrist.

'For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars,' smiled Ranjit.

'Is that so! How?'

'He told me to cut the legs off the bed.'

List of Unusual and Strange Phobias ~

* Pteronophobia - Panic when tickled by feathers.

* Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.

* Russophobia - Dread of Russians.

* Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.

* Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks.

* Eleutherophobia - Strange phobia of freedom.

* Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge.

* Ereuthrophobia - Dread of blushing.

* Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.

* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words. (This one would scare anyone for sure!)

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22nd July 2012 Funny, Strange Or Bizarre Book Titles

The Diagram Prize is awarded each year to the oddest title presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Several of these books fall into the 'must read category'.

Bizarre Book Titles:

** Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself [A book for woodworkers]

** Knitting with Dog Hair

** Wood Carving with a Chain Saw

** Drying Flowers With A Microwave

** Nuclear War: What's In It For You?

** How Green were the Nazis?

** Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them

** How to Avoid Huge Ships

** Bomb Proof Your House

** Waterproofing Your Child

Strange Book Titles:

 

** May Flowers by April Showers

** Cheese Problems Solved by P.L.H. McSweeney

** How to Write a How to Write Book by Brian Paddock

** I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen by Jasper McCutcheon

** If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs by Big Boom

** Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon

** People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond by From King Canute to Doctor Feelgood by Dee Gordon.

Amusing Book Titles:

 

**The 120 year diet

** Detecting Fake Nazi Regalia

** Foundry Work for the Amateur

** Versailles by The View from Sweden

** Oral Sadism and the Vegetable Personality

** Theory of Lengthwise Rolling

** The Potatoes of Bolivia by Their Breeding, Value and Evolutionary Relationships

** Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry

** The Interpretation of Geological Time from the Evidence of Fossilised Elephant Droppings in Eastern Europe

** Big and Very Big Hole Drilling

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