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| Thread ID: 31179 | 2003-03-14 09:09:00 | WFTWE.....Anatidaephobia......Life is short, time for a little frivolity... | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 128025 | 2003-03-14 09:09:00 | Anatidaephobia The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you :D (A Far Side original) Cheers Billy 8-{) :D You won't be able to sleep at night now ]:) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128026 | 2003-03-14 09:16:00 | Could be a new form of the Trueman Show? Makes you wonder why we would have a word that means 'The fear that a duck is watching you' By the way, where do you get all these words from?? CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 128027 | 2003-03-14 09:29:00 | Well cyberchuck, Anatidaephobia is the only overtly made-up word I have ever used on WFTWE ,but then all words were made up or developed at some time or another. Where do I get them? I originally started with words I knew, but now I collect them on my travels through dictionaries and around the web. I think this is WFTWE #40 or thereabouts, I must check so that I can celebrate the 50th with a real doozy. :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128028 | 2003-03-14 09:34:00 | actually i remmember reading that joke.... ...aint it cool! I get such a laugh from gary larsen, the more i read the more i laugh!!! :^O |
onlyme (2934) | ||
| 128029 | 2003-03-14 09:35:00 | I have long suspected that Billy has a copy of the "Chambers Words for crosswords and wordgames" - and refers, with uncontrollableness, to the last three pages. | Heather P (163) | ||
| 128030 | 2003-03-14 09:43:00 | Nope, not that way Heather. I have a list of words that I have collected sitting in my computer, roughly in alphabetical order. I get them all over the place. Cheers Billy 8-{) :8} |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128031 | 2003-03-14 09:54:00 | Then I shall have to apologise for the unthoughtfulness of my misinterpretation of the facts. Good book by the way. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 128032 | 2003-03-14 21:15:00 | No need for apologies Heather, my search for words goes on interminably as I have a morbid fear of anomia.* I constantly seek new sources of unusual and interresting words, but it sounds like I would need money for that one.:( I am always afraid I might run out of new ideas before the PF1 team gets tired of their Friday word games. I try to keep them topical whenever I can too, so that required a fairly substantial resource. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D * Anomia: Difficulty in finding the right words |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 128033 | 2003-03-14 21:25:00 | The concise oxford dictionary has let me down. You don't by any chance have a fear of anoxia? Or the possibility of suffering from anosmia? Or do you resent being anourous? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 128034 | 2003-03-14 21:33:00 | Mrs Byrne's Dictionary of Obscure, Unusual and Preposterous Words | mark c (247) | ||
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