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  • dwboyd
    Now I fear you will never be back to pleo land! I'll miss you...
    by dwboyd at 02/28/10 9:07PM

Panophobia (Fear of Everything)

"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

The trump card of everything fearful: fear itself.
  • yoda
    How did I miss yall are having a kid? Congrats!
    by yoda at 05/05/09 9:21AM
  • justjen
    Hmm, I like that quote, and the pre-picture of the munchkin beside it. Yay!
    by justjen at 05/23/09 2:44AM
  • fullofgrace
    counterphobia (a phobic who prefers fear-inducing situations)


    ... :)
    by fullofgrace at 05/26/09 11:06PM
  • fullofgrace

    happy
    holidays!
    by fullofgrace at 12/24/09 3:10PM

Pedophobia (Fear of Children)

Top 10 Things Kids Stick Up Their Noses
1) Crayons
2) Beads
3) French Fries
4) Fingers
5) Marbles
6) Spaghetti
7) Tissues
8) Cheerios
9) Small Toys
10) Beans & Peas

Just think...in 7 months I'll need to teach my child how to do these... ;-)
  • marla
    :) :) Congratulations, BenBen!!
    by marla at 01/25/09 1:00AM
  • onelittlecandle
    AAHHH!!! Ben, that's wonderful! Congratulations! :D I think you can add hair to that list; mom and I were just discussing that very topic last night. :-)
    by onelittlecandle at 01/25/09 12:46PM
  • justjenn
    Congrats!!!
    by justjenn at 01/25/09 2:56PM
  • dwboyd
    Congrats ben!
    by dwboyd at 01/25/09 3:55PM
  • bsautter
    all smiles here :-)
    by bsautter at 01/25/09 9:02PM
  • matthew_and_brooke
    Congratulations. :) I"m sure you'll teach your child well in such important topics.
    by matthew_and_brooke at 01/25/09 11:16PM
  • azuresky42
    lol...hey what about chopsticks? I guess only asian kids do that ;)
    by azuresky42 at 01/26/09 12:12AM
  • razz
    wow- congrats!
    by razz at 01/26/09 5:31PM

Photophobia (Fear of Lights)

Don't look at the lights...they're so pretty...

  • azuresky42
    niice. I'm jealous---with a righteous jealousy.
    by azuresky42 at 12/09/08 2:50PM
  • livi
    Fear of hanging lights might be more accurate. ;)
    by livi at 12/09/08 11:01PM
  • dwboyd
    I'm scared to know how long that took!
    by dwboyd at 01/06/09 1:18PM
  • dwboyd
    Ben, I feel like I'm a year behind the times. Thanks for the updates below. Congrats on the wedding, the job, the house. I really enjoyed the CompUSA pics. Later!
    by dwboyd at 01/06/09 1:42PM

Bureauaphoia (Fear of the Government)

As of May 2008 I was officially hired on as a government employee. Since then I've been assigned top secret clearance to work on various projects. My work this past week:

Monday I got to listen in on citizens' personal cell phone calls in an effort to root out terrorists. Hey, somebody's gotta listen to Aunt Bertha to make sure her apple pie isn't a bomb waiting to happen. One guy mentioned the word "terr...ain" when referring to his last hiking expedition. Almost got him on that one.

Tuesday, I get flown to a top secret military base at Cheyenne mountain (SW of Colorado Springs) to work on a solution to mass transit. It has to do with charged neutrinos, naquadah, and ring shaped transportation devices. It's all hush hush. Colonel O'Neill is in charge of the base. Funny guy.

Wednesday was alien day. I drove down to the "real Roswell" in Fort Collins. If you didn't know, the one in Roswell, NM is to throw everyone off the track. I got to analyze some charred remains of an alien monkey. Apparently, it got sent on the first interstellar space flight from another planet, burned up in our atmosphere and fell to earth. Ironically, they look just like our own monkeys, and the ship looks like a weather balloon. But it's gotta be alien...

Thursday I got to speak to reporters about their latest theories on 9/11 being a hoax. Generally it's an hour or so of them saying "where's the remains of the plane that hit the pentagon"? and "who planted bombs in the towers?" I get to deny everything. Boring stuff. The rest of the day I got to visit with the people that set the bombs off in the towers, the people that would been in the planes (had they never got on, and the plane not been remote controlled), and the missile launch crew that targeted the pentagon. Nice folks. They're in a secret military installation on an island in the pacific to protect their identities and keep it a secret (video phones are wonderful). But shhh! don't tell the reporters!

Friday, I got to do some minor tweaking on the CO2 generators that we stuck outside Al Gore's office. You see his carbon dioxide detectors are tied into the global warming monitoring system. As long as his system detects CO2, then he can keep claiming we're all gonna die. We have an agreement: He doesn't look outside his window at the generators, and all we know is that the devices needs to be there for "national security" reasons.

Saturday, I rest. If it's good enough for God, it's good enough for me.


...or you could believe that I'm monitoring a satellite data storage facility for NOAA in Boulder, CO. But the first one is more fun!
  • behemoth
    nice buddy! Glad things are going well
    by behemoth at 07/28/08 12:37AM
  • melusine
    lol! The first description is, indeed, more fun. But the second one, if you phrase it just so, sounds all top-secret. I won't tell any reporters anything - it's part of my philosophy.
    by melusine at 08/01/08 8:58PM
  • cblair
    http://www.johnmccain.com/involving/petition2.aspx?guid=4160d817-603f-4803-8ef7-d83dee46c731
    by cblair at 08/11/08 9:43PM
  • cblair
    for some reason it put a space in that link but if you delete it out it will work
    by cblair at 08/11/08 9:43PM
  • stephiblair
    Thank you for your comment! I completely agree! I don't know why Bush was backing this thing. I just think the less the government is involved the better (well, in general). Which sort of goes along with your post, haha. I just may be bureauaphobic... :)
    by stephiblair at 09/30/08 11:16PM
  • stephiblair
    thanks for the input, but I woul still feel better if it was disassembled and cleaned completely and then put back together. But since I don't know that much about it I'll take the advice from you experts ;)
    by stephiblair at 11/30/08 10:14PM
  • moocow
    Thanks for the e-card!
    by moocow at 12/04/08 11:43AM