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| Thread ID: 34439 | 2003-06-13 04:22:00 | WFTWE #54...Mysophobia...Double-dip on fears you didn't know you had.... | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 152247 | 2003-06-15 04:01:00 | Aha! Do I detect a Mad magazine afficionado Epsilon? :D Takes me back, but I always wondered what was the significance of the name Alfred E Neuman. Maybe it was an American thing? If it was meant to be funny in itself, it didn't quite gel with me. Perhaps it was all in the what me worry thing. ?:| Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 152248 | 2003-06-15 04:12:00 | > I always have suspected that Windows XP suffers from > a mild form of this. It is a neat-freak the way it > wants to go around and clean up desktop icons and > hide half your menu's from you just because you > haven't looked at them for a while. > Windows' own mess and slime (unemptied caches, multiple index.dats clogged memory etc) is another matter. Microsoft only suffers from *surface* MySophobia. I sometimes have an attack of MS-ophobia. My favourite is pongophobia - the fear of beards. And phobophobia. Argus The opposite of a phobia, of course, is a philia (though that word is puzzlingly never used on its own). "The philatelists, who collect stamps; the philumenists, who collect matchbox-labels....and the philopantopholists, who collect collections." Jean LeClezio; "Le Proces Verbale" |
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| 152249 | 2003-06-15 23:12:00 | Mad afficionado I am. Only the earliest mags though. As for Alfred's name or namesake, never bothered to find out what that was all about. | Epsilon (2806) | ||
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