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What Really Scares People: Top 10 Phobias
livescience ^

Posted on 10/30/2009 10:31:19 AM PDT by JoeProBono

10 - The Dentist

9 - Dogs

8 - Frightful Flight

7 - Thunder and Lightning

6 - The Dark

5 - Harrowing Heights

4 - Other People

3 - Scary Spaces

2 - Creepy Crawlies

1 - Slithering Snakes

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: halloween; jpb; napl; phobias
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To: Daffynition
Carnophobia:

if it meant fear of carnies, then yeah--i have that...

121 posted on 10/30/2009 9:21:03 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: latina4dubya
A compromise............


122 posted on 10/30/2009 9:27:17 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: latina4dubya

The best policy is to make friends with the monster under the bed.

Feed it one of your enemies every so often. ;-)


123 posted on 10/30/2009 9:50:20 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree...or TWO, if they're UN meddlers.)
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To: BigIsleGal

“OH?
I hear tell you have other “skeletons” in your closet.
Closets can be very scary....”

Nope, not me. no. never. (I don’t have any closets):>)


124 posted on 10/31/2009 6:53:28 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: JoeProBono

Anyone else scared of these?

125 posted on 10/31/2009 7:01:02 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: Allegra

I’m afraid fo heights, yet wil clamber up rock faces.
I know, I’m an idiot.


126 posted on 10/31/2009 9:58:37 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Darksheare
I’m afraid fo heights, yet wil clamber up rock faces.

Actually, I think that's pretty cool. ;-)

127 posted on 10/31/2009 10:01:15 AM PDT by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: DocRock; JoeProBono
What is a fear of furniture?

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128 posted on 10/31/2009 10:01:55 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Despite the cries of the left, homophobia did NOT make the top 10.


129 posted on 10/31/2009 3:55:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I'm phobiaphobic.

There's nothing to fear except FEAR ITSELF!

130 posted on 10/31/2009 3:56:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: a fool in paradise

You’re scaring me.


131 posted on 10/31/2009 3:59:25 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: newfreep

Chicago’s “skywalk”

Oh, screw that!


132 posted on 10/31/2009 4:36:23 PM PDT by PLMerite (Speak Truth to Stupid.)
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To: SonnyBubba

Snakes, No 1.


133 posted on 11/03/2009 2:49:39 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m sure I’m not the first and I’m too lazy to read on down the thread...

What about Obama?He scares the H E double hockey sticks out me!


134 posted on 11/03/2009 2:51:24 PM PST by Rightly Biased (If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
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