hahahahahahahahDoes something simple freak you out? If you dont mind everyone getting a giggle or two out of your phobia, post it here!
I'll go first and embarase myself:
I can't stand a fingernail file! I can't even pick one up, I can't stand it when my wife is using one....I freak, I really freak!
The odd thing is I can use sandpaper, until it gets near the top side of my fingernails, then I freak...
Now here is a strange one....My son can not stand the feel of R-TAPE CLEAR application tape! He freaks out when he has to use it!
He hates the "feel" of it, the texture. I have to get out the paper application tape for him to use, but thats impossible to see through as we do a lot of pecise alignment in graphics.
Well, how about you? Care to share? This should be fun if you are brave enough to tell us! hahahahahahahah
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Draper The Signmaker
Bloomington Illinois USA
Stop in and visit a while!
309-828-7110
signman@davesworld.net
Raptorman or Draper_Dave on mIRC chat
[This message has been edited by Dave Draper (edited January 06, 2001).]
Watching someone letter laft handed.
Wild dogs.
New building inspectors.
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The SignShop
Mendocino, California
"Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
Oh, for the faith of a spider! He begins his web without any thread.
[This message has been edited by Rick Sacks (edited January 06, 2001).]
the biggest phobias i have are...
those big brown spiders that look like they have two bodies and have a leg span that seems to approach 4 inches... and they always seem to be behind the signs that require extension ladders....
matte finish coffee cups. the feel just sends chills up my spine....
i have some lesser fears but i think they are more like dislikes than actual phobias.
have a great one!
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Bruce Bowers
DrCAS
Signtech
"how great are His signs..."
Daniel 4:3
i am a proud supporter of this website!
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PKing is
Pat King of
King Sign Design in
McCalla,Alabama
The Professor of
SIGNOLOGY
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Jerry Mathel
Jerry Mathel Signs
Grants Pass, Oregon
signs@grantspass.com
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Karen Tighe,
Strandhill,
Sligo in the Wild Wet West of Ireland.
mIRC = cafe_cruiser
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"surf" or "MoJo54" on mirc
Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
(206) 300-0153
Seattle WA.....!
signsbycheryl@hotmail.com
I had a life once. Now I have a computer. http://signsbycheryl.homestead.com/home.html
http://mojosignco.homestead.com/home.html
Really, the sound of fingernails down a chalkboard or a screen!
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Deb
Creative Signs
"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
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Roger Bailey
Rapid Tac Incorporated
Waikoloa, Hawaii
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Chuck Peterson Graphics
1860 Playa Riviera Dr.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif. 92007
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Don Coplen aka "SaintPete"
Coplen Designs
St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
13.7¢ a day to support this site that does so much for so many? Count me in! Another proud supporter of this great site and all it stands for!
Public speaking !! , just the thought makes me start running for the bathroom ! (SORRY LADIES )
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Dumb questions when I'm working.
Brushes, when the hair falls out in the middle of a 1/32" straight line.
Paying top dollar for tools that don't last.
Stupid people who open a door on a vehicle when they can see the tape running along the sides and you with a brush in your hand.
People who tap you on the back or shoulder to get your attention while you have a brush in your hand, I'm sure it would be alot different if you had a gun in your hand.
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HotLines Joey Madden
Pinstriper and designer of the Inflite'
See it go to work http://www.killerkoncepts.com
learning capabilities http://www.members.tripod.com/Inflite
I do have a phobia about heights..but it is more a phobia of "looking over the edge" when I am on a roof or "looking down" when I am on a ladder..so I avoid either situation if possible.
What I DO fear is that the Canadian equivalent of the IRS will want to know where the money comes from to go on vacation or to Letterhead meets!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahaha
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Dave Grundy shop#340
AKA "applicator" on mIRC
"stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!"
in Granton, Ontario, Canada
1-519-225-2634
dave.grundy@quadro.net
www.quadro.net/~shirley
"A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
No, really, bees, wasps, hornets, anything that flies around and can sting. That's the only thing that actually makes me unreasonably fearful. Second place would be heights - I can't stand to get more than 20 feet up a ladder.
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Brad Farha, owner
Farha Signs
Beckley, WV
304-252-3778
farhasigns@citynet.net
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Bill Cosharek
Bill Cosharek Signs
1031 Whitehead Lane
N.Huntingdon,Pa 15642
bcosharek@juno.com
I searched around for a stick to brush her off onto the ground so I could finish the job and get out of there.....finding a very small (very small) twig, I quickly brushed her off onto the ground where she lay on her back squirming (I swear she was hissing) with those long black legs waving in the air.
I raised my foot up to smash her and be done with it when somehow just at the point that I was to make contact something made me hesitate, just ever so slightly.
It was the thought that when I did step on it, it might make a 'pop' sensation which is one of those things that makes me freak!
Well, that very hesitation was what made it worse, for I tapped her with my tennis shoe just enough to make her marble size body pop like a boiled cranberry! And even worse.......
I LOOKED!!!!
Ohhh, MANNNNN!!!!!
What resulted was aprox 10 minutes of what I can only describe as a Heebee Jeebee dance!
Thank god no one was around to see me dancing around, squeeling in horror and shaking my hands as if I had a million spiders all over me!
THAT,...is what makes me come unglued!
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Oh, and worms...any kind of worms!
Adrienne
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
[This message has been edited by AdrienneMorgan (edited January 07, 2001).]
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Linda Silver Eagle
Silver Eagle Graphix Studio
Georgia, USA
ICQ# 60434646
Signwriters never die...they've always got 1-Shot left!
For years when I saw one in the house, I'd find a bowl, cover it and place books on top for weight so they couldn't get out. Hubby would come home to bowls and books here and there.
These days I'm much braver. I have a son now to protect ya know!
I don't like them, and I don't even like their name. And I don't like what an art teacher did to me one time. He held up a newspaper and opened it wide for the class. It was a huge 'you-know-what' covering two pages. Starts with a T. ECK!!!!!!! I freaked and hid my eyes and shook. He thought that was so funny, he'd do it throughout the lesson when he knew my eyes were on him. True phobias aren't a laughing matter and actually it was really cruel of him, but the rest of the class got a kick out of it.
And fingernails on a chalkboard.
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Graphic Impact
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
gisigns@sprint.ca
[This message has been edited by Donna in BC (edited January 07, 2001).]
"I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me...."
Is that how it goes???
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Deb
Creative Signs
"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
Joey, yours cracked me up.........been there done all of that. You did, however miss one. The guy with the wiping rag that can't keep from rubbing on the vehicle while you are working on it. The vehicle will ALWAYS be softly sprung to where it really moves a BUNCH 
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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
goatwell@ionictech.com
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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John Deaton III
Deaton Signs&Grafix
109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
johnd3rd@kih.net
http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/dsigns
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Dave Sherby
"Sandman"
SherWood Sign & Graphic Design
Crystal Falls, MI 49920
906-875-6201
ICQ: 21604027
sherwood@up.net
sharks! never seen one up close, but i spend alot of summer weekends swimming in the gulf, and i know there's alot of them swimming around only 10 or 20 yards from me. rumor has it that they don't go over the outer sandbar until the sun goes down.
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Don Coplen aka "SaintPete"
Coplen Designs
St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
13.7¢ a day to support this site that does so much for so many? Count me in! Another proud supporter of this great site and all it stands for!
You have to face it head on (or try a little bit at a time...).
I am not afraid of heights and snakes and critters per say, all of the time. I always try to get a little closer to the situation and it seems to work. I used to hate going up on bleachers at a football game for fear my foot would slip, but I could stand up in the Rockies thousands of feet up (Pike's Peak) and look down. Go figure. I don't think I could go rock climbing, but I don't fear scaffolds very much as long as they are balanced. I just keep trying something new.
and by the way, I think it did help that my dad used to tell us that the spiders don't each THAT much!
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Deb
Creative Signs
"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
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Kathy Joiner
River Road Graphics
Ponchatoula, La.
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist.
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
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joe pribish-A SIGN MINT
2811 longleaf Dr.
pensacola, fl 32526
850-944-5060
BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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Jackson Smart
Jackson's Signs
Port Angeles, WA
...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun"
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"If it isn't fun, why do it?"
Signmike@aol.com
Mike Languein
Doctor of Letters
BS, MS, PhD
___________________
You know what BS is, MS is More of the Same, and it's Piled Higher and Deeper here
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Si Allen #562
La Mirada, CA. USA
(714) 521-4810
ICQ # 330407
"SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
Brushasaurus on Chat
Gladly supporting this BB !
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Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.
jnsigns@onlink.net
Chapleau, Ontario home of "The World's Largest Game Preserve"
Spring is upon us,in Shania Country. Farewell Mosquito here comes the Snow!
"Go figure" got me 30 cords of wood and haven't seen a snow flake yet!
"I cut it twice and it's still too short!"
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
and the sight of my girl eating yogurt (bacterria - yeee-uuuck)
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Mike Duncan
Lettercraft Signs
Alexandria VA
" I set aside a few minutes everyday for myself, Then I am able to take off for a week at the end of the year"
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Michael Boone
Sign Painter
5828 Buerman Rd.Sodus,NY 14551
Ontime @localnet.com
I've been stung and I lived through it and I'm ok now, but DON'T TOUCH MY TOES!!!!!
I don't even like seeing people's toes do weird things. My sister, the younger sibling that she is, LOVES to mess with me. She does what she calls "Which Toes" and has taught my first born to chime in with her. She takes her barefoot and spreads her toes out in a big span, like opening your hand, and then sticks her foot as close to my face as she can get it singing "Which Toes!" I know, gross huh? If she can't reach my line vision she touches my leg or arm with them and I freak right up one wall and down another. What is worse? She grabs MY TOES and wiggles her fingers around in them. Oh MAN this unhinges every freak nerve I have.
Bridges don't thrill me either. They make my butt pucker every time we have to drive over one. My husband gets a kick out of letting me know that we are on a bridge every time we are driving down HWY 50 into Lake Tahoe. The HWY runs alongside a cliff. Heights don't thrill me either, but being on a bridge while on a cliffside with a drop of at least 1000' really freaks me out.
A message therapist was working on the tension knots in my back one day and made the mistake of picking up one of my feet and telling me about Reflexology while beginning it... pushing on the pressure points in the bottom of your foot. Well let me tell you, he only did THAT once. I levitated off that table and nearly knocked him on his arse. He decided I was not a candidate for Reflexology. LOL
The Don't Touch My Toes side the Moon
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The Moon
aka: Stefenie Harris
Moonlight Designs
Pollock Pines, CA
learnin' somethin' new every day!
IF I GOT TO PAY FOR INS. AND PLATES SO SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE !!!!!
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GSD SIGNS
Lewiston,Mi.
517-786-5226
My biggest phobia is ROACHES. When I was 8, and living in the Phillippines, my parents left me and my 11 & 14yo sister and brother home one night when they went out to the NCO club. First, let me tell you that the roaches in the PI were large, like Palmetto bugs. We had a torrential rainstorm and our kitchen began flooding from water pouring in under the back door. It had several inches of water in it and my sister and I were trying to push the water out with a broom while my brother went around back to try and block under the door. Suddenly we saw roaches pouring in under the door and they would try to climb up our legs to get out of the water, stinging our legs. At the time, I thought they were biting us, but I now figure it must have been the roaches spurs gripping our legs. Pat and I are screaming our heads off inside the kitchen, my brother begins banging like crazy on the locked back door. I was terrified to open the door, afraid of what was out there, even tho' I knew it was Mike. My sister finally forces the door open, and there was Mike beating at his arms, legs and chest, roaches swarming all over him. It's a vision I've never been able to get out of my head. To this day, I've never been able to kill a roach. I just know it's going to get me if I try to injure it. If I see one, I call in the swat team and I'm outta there.
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Kelli Cajigas aka Janda
Dolphin deSigns & Banners
“A satisfied customer will tell two friends, a dissatisfied customer will tell ten.”
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Ryan Ursta
Ursta Graphics
27 West Shenango St.
Sharpsville Pa. 16150
Call: 724•962•2206
"letters of Recommendation"
Known as "Ugraph" on mirc
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Mark Fair
Mark Fair Signs
http://www.markfair.com
Home of "Sign of the Month
http://www.markfair.com/signomonth.html
2162 Mt. Meigs Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36107
334-262-4449
"Mark Fair is a Proud Contributor to The Letterhead Site!"
A phobia is a deep, irrational fear of ANYTHING. Spiders, snakes and heights are the most common, along with claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces).
Back in my Clinical Psychology classes, I read a case study of a woman with a rodent phobia with psychotic manifestations - she hallucinated about rats and mice. She was in a session with a new therapist, who had a pet hamster that he carried around in a jacket pocket, and amidst her emotionally describing her horror of rodents, the hamster (which he had forgot about)crawled out of his pocket. According to the case study, the woman suffered "an immediate and very violent psychotic episode" and had to be physically restrained - strait jacketed, padded cell - and sedated for the next several months; or as our professor described it, "it blew all her circuits".
Personally, I don't like ladders. I can use them, but not too high. The idea of working off swing staging on a high wall makes me bug - but on the other hand, I don't mind heights if they're solid. When I visited the Grand Canyon my girlfriend freaked because I'd go past the railings to sit on a cliff edge and hang my feet over a thousand-foot drop.
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"A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)
Cam
Finest Kind Signs
256 S. Broad St.
Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379
"Award winning Signs since 1988"
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Brad Farha, owner
Farha Signs
Beckley, WV
304-252-3778
farhasigns@citynet.net
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Si Allen #562
La Mirada, CA. USA
(714) 521-4810
ICQ # 330407
"SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
Brushasaurus on Chat
Gladly supporting this BB !
Phobia -- Shopping in a mall during Christmas time. I almost go into a panic attack when I'm around that many people, all in the same christmas mind set.
Pet Peave -- Standing next to someone who, as they talk to you, proceed to scratch their crotch and shift themselves around. I don't need to see that.
That's about it,
Steve
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Steve King
Taylor Signs Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta
Hey, we just turned 100 Years old!
Melissa, my wife, goes NUTS when she hears, or even THINKS about silverware scraping together or on a plate, or worse yet, bumping into someones teeth. (which is an interesting way of getting even over dinner after a fight... )
I also get "panicky" in crowds, but I have no problem speaking publicly. Weird huh?
Barry
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Master's Touch Signs & Screenprinting
Clinton AR
5017456246
ICQ 17430008
"Imagine the Possibilities..."
ha ha ya missed me! Not a phobia, I can't stand the stuff.
Airplanes. I don't know about it being a phobia, I flew during the Navy, and hated it, but I did it. I won't get on an airplane now, though. I wouldn't paint a sign on one unless I had the ignition key in my pocket.
The story of the hamster brings up a bad memory; spiders are my big fear and I was over at a buddy's house when I was about 10. He had the things all over his yard big time and played with them. I wouldn't let him know about my phobia though. There was a giant black spider in a web one time and he reached out and picked it up and had it in his hand for a while and I was going nuts! He offered to let me hold it. I declined. Finally he put it back and we resumed whatever safe play we were doing before, like blowing up things, or jumping off the roof.
A couple days later we were playing some thing at his house and I saw those long black legs come crawling out of his shirt pocket and I hit the street running so hard I couldn't get on my bike. I was pushing it as fast as I could run for about 2 blocks before I gained the presence of mind to jump on. I never went to Donny's house again. That was 1955. It can be another 45 years 'til I see him and his bugs.
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"If it isn't fun, why do it?"
Signmike@aol.com
Mike Languein
Doctor of Letters
BS, MS, PhD
___________________
You know what BS is, MS is More of the Same, and it's Piled Higher and Deeper here
I am totally creeped out by bugs and filth...
Last year I visit a friend in Louisiana that I've known a long time. She has 8 kids, her husband is out of the country often and they asked me to come visit and drive her to do errands and help with the kids (she doesn't drive)
Her house is this wierd two story mobile home in very bad disrepair....It was even worse than the last time I visited 4 yrs prior.
The back bedroom floor is packed with old clothes and junk so you can't walk around the bed to get in it, you have to crawl over it to get to the other side where the closet is.
The walls have Rube Goldberg shelving with odds and ends covered with a good layer of
dust.
When I went to clear a small area off an old dresser in the 'closet' (no
doors on the closet) to put my suitcaes on I carefully (so's not to raise any dust). brushed the 1/2 inch layer of mouse droppings onto the floor..
As there is no screens on the front door, the mosquitoes would come in by the hundreds every night
and gradually make their way to the back bedroom... I am
terribly allergic to their bites and stayed up most nights till 3 am
swatting at them till I killed every one,
Most nights I lay there wide awake listening to the rustling of 'something'
in all that crap on the floor at the foot of the bed....I must have turned
on the light (a metal work light clamped onto a chunk of wood nailed
crudely to the wall) a dozen times trying to see what it was....then I see
it, something about the size of a mouse crawling along the top of the
curtains over one of the broken windows in the room......but it wasn't no
mouse! It dropped with an audible 'plop'! and dissapeared into the clutter at the end of the bed! I later learned it was what folks in the south call a 'Waterbug'!!
That's a COCKROACH!
I shuddered to think where it might have gone, and wondered if they crawl
acrossed you in bed....I woke up every morning exhasted and covered in bites.
If I know there might be a single mosquito in the room I can't sleep until I've seen it's dead body!
Adrienne ={
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
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Gray Hodge
celtman@ireland.com
Cam River Signs
Somerset, Tasmania,
Down Under
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
Amathophobia: The fear of dust.
Anananany: The inability to stop spelling 'banana' once you've
started.
Anatidaephobia: The fear that wherever you are, a duck is watching!
Androphobia: The fear of men.
Angoraphobia: The fear of soft sweaters and rabbits.
Anthropophobia: The fear of human beings.
Archibutyrophobia: The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
your mouth.
Eonaphobics: The fear of transvestites.
Friendorphobia: The fear of being asked "Who goes there?"
Friggaphobics: People who fear Fridays.
Genuphobia: The fear of knees.
Graphophobia: The fear of writing.
Heortophobia: The fear of holidays.
Iophobia: The fear of rust.
Katagelophobia: The fear of ridicule.
Lyssophobia: The fear of insanity.
Peniaphobia: The fear of poverty.
Phobaphobia: The fear of fear itself.
Phobia: What you have left over after you drink two out of a 6-pack.
Phronemophobia: The fear of thinking.
Pognophobia: The fear of beards.
Quadriphobia: The fear of 4-way stops and not knowing who goes next.
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The SignShop
Mendocino, California
"Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
Oh, for the faith of a spider! He begins his web without any thread.
PKingaphobia!
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Adrienne Morgan
Splash Signs
www.splashsigns.com
"Rainkatt'
Benicia, CA
707-746-7847 (shop)
707-550-4553 (voicemail)
adrienne@splashsigns.com
PKINGUNDERWEARAPHOBIA
LOL
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Mark Fair
Mark Fair Signs
http://www.markfair.com
Home of "Sign of the Month
http://www.markfair.com/signomonth.html
2162 Mt. Meigs Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36107
334-262-4449
"Mark Fair is a Proud Contributor to The Letterhead Site!"
