Post throwdown for WARJLords!

[Lepi]

Pedophobia- Fear of children.

They have really tiny hands. It's unsettling.

 

[Vanyanka]

Deipnophobia is the fear of dinner party conversations.

Who isn't?

 

[essjay]

Cleopatra kept it in the family, marrying her younger brother (Ptolemy XII) before moving on to Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

I've always thought that "Antony and Cleopatra" is one of Shakespeare's most underrated plays.

I read what I thought was a marginally fictional book about Cleopatra in high school, which turned out to be a historical romance, but I still carry a lot of those notions about her.

And, yeah, the brother marrying was in there.

 

[Vanyanka]

Have you ever orgasmed in a dream?

 

[essjay]

Oh, hey, high school!me! I didn't see you there.

 

[Lepi]

Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.

Damn bald people with their shiny heads.

 

[Vanyanka]

Ancient Greeks believed that wearing amethysts would help prevent a person from getting drunk.

 

[essjay]

 

[Lepi]

Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)

 

[Vanyanka]

Sleeping through the winter is called "hibernation," while sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer is called "estivation."

 

[Lepi]

Roughly 1/3 of my total posts on the forum have been in this thread.

 

[Vanyanka]

Queen Victoria used a tincture of marijuana to relieve period pains.

 

[Lepi]

Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.

 

[Vanyanka]

Not a single witch was burned at the stake after being convicted in the Salem witch trials. (Most were hanged.)

 

[essjay]

Queen Victoria used a tincture of marijuana to relieve period pains.

She knew what was up.

 

[Lepi]

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

 

[Vanyanka]

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

 

[Lepi]

Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.

 

[Vanyanka]

Symbols such as "!#@%" that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips are called grawlix.

 

[Lepi]

Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

Yep, got this one too.