is the bleeding spiders. I'm trapped in our dining room by a massive, hairy-legged tarantula that is standing guard by the door. Does anyone know whether Rentokil work on Bank Holidays?

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

Answers

Eeek, it's moving.

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

It's just run out of the kitchen door so I'm safe. Anyone else got any phobias?

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

heights, urrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhh

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

Anyone else got any phobias?

Yes - Agrophobia (fear of skinheads)

Seriously, my phobia is poverty - and the door to my Room 101 is opening ever wider.

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

Heights(when there's no rail or other safety device), crowds, small window/door-less spaces, speaking in front of groups, math, earthquakes, bugs and vermin that are big enough to make noise when squashed, bees and other stinging insects...

Other than that, not much. ;-))

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

Moths and Mackems.

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

enclosed spaces, the thought of being caught with the floosie

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

lets see....

theirs the red issue... yes can't handle the colour red, never saw a red thing I liked, I was a kid... wanted a blue bike not a red one...had a red shirt once, couldn't wear it, died it pink. Yes red is bad...very bad....

oh and heights....

and brussel sprouts (what's the use)

Ummm...ok ok ok.... I don't like roller coasters, and any ride where you spin round.

is that enough???

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

1) claustrophobia - in particular a fear of those bloody MRI Scanners.

2) skintophobia - a morbid fear of the Nationwide Div.1

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

Ladies scratching their nylons, well tights then , gans reet thro me, much like a pint of Bass from the wood.

Recurring dream , not phobia , keep leaving car and forgetting where!!

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2001

I have a fear of the Sea (particularly whitley bay). A bit worrying as i live near it and drive past it a lot. I also have a major phobia about Moths - i don't know why they are just annoying and in your face little creatures...

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

help!!!!!!!!!!

i found a cockroach im y shoe this morning...how the hell do i get rid of these evil beasts?

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

Keraunothnetophobia, Hyalinopygophobia :o))

See if you can work out what they are! (Spelling may be dodgy).

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

Damn - answers can be found on the web! Spelling is OK btw.

Check out:

http://phobialist.com/index.html#K-

amongst many others.

I quite like Arachibutyrophobia - That's funny!

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

I'm not so sure about Allodoxaphobia, what do you think ?

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

and Sesquipedalophobia is just magnificent

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

Ermmm!

Hope the boys have Kakorrhaphiophobia.

I wonder what the fear of relegation is - Mackemophobia?

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

Psellismophobia is a good one. I wonder which B@stard thought that one up!

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

And the answers are:

Keraunothnetophobia - Fear of falling manmade satellites.

Hyanilopygophobia - Fear of Glass Bottoms!

Oh, and Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of defeat.

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

i found a cockroach im y shoe this morning...how the hell do i get rid of these evil beasts?

Sleep wiff ya shoes on Swift, in a hammock with greased suspension wire & a net. OTT, not where cockcroachs are involved, have you seen MiB.

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001

Just as well they aren't NYC roaches. They live for the challenge. ;-)

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2001