fear of hollow stuff

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old tree trunks, cheap chocolate easter bunnies, the idea of wooden legs, mascots' giant costume heads, the too-light feeling of BIG WHEELS as a kid, non-inflatable plastic balls, habit of knocking on "world's largest" roadside attractions, smooth furniture etc - anybody have this?

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/LessonPlans/Storytelling/I_Crane/icrane.jpg

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.2012.com.au/Hollow_Earth.jpg

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

submarines?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Many of the operations they undertake are not official acts of war, so they aren't clearly covered by the international laws of warfare. For instance, on some previous counterterror missions, elta Force soldiers have armed themselves with hollow-point bullets and exploding ammunition, although these are expressly forbidden during war by international law.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Delta*

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

This is an awesome phobia.
Hollow things can be creepy, yes. Fear? I don't know, personally. However, all those things, listed together, made me shudder. But one at a time, well, not so bad.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

what could be a word to describe fear of hollow stuff : Cavophobia?
google give only a single use of it, and I think it may be a typo

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces. But it's not as exact as Caviphobia, which implies the shell and the hollow interior. Okay, now I'm creeped out again.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Ancient Earth work fort and barrow
Discreetly hide their secret abodes
The most fearful hide deep inside
And venture not there upon Yuletide

For invasion of their hollow hills
That music hold and Oberon fill
Is surely recommended not
For fear of death, in fear of rot

Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Hollow hills

Baleful sounds and wild voices ignored
Ill luck disaster the one reward
Violated sanctity of supermen's hills
So sad, love lies there still
So sad
So sad
Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Witches too and goblin too and speckled sills
Lament repent oh mortal you
So sad
So S. A. D.

(drun curl)

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

I have a problem with porous things, like sponges and especially honeycomb. Something about all those tiny, hollow spaces really, really gives me the creeps.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

As a child, I was -- for some reason -- deathly afraid of wiggly rubber toys (alligators, spiders, etc.) and....ummm..actor Gene Wilder.

http://www.jokeshopfun.co.uk/acatalog/176.JPG http://www.supermanfred.it/won1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.liabilitywebzine.com/images/elektrocution-vagina_dentata.jpg

― efil4zelffor (deangulberry), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

I would only be afraid of, like, five hundred vaginas all clustered together. It's the CLUSTERS OF HOLES that bother me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

No, that sounds great.

― efil4zelffor (deangulberry), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Gene Wilder was one of my first celebrity crushes! (Yeah, Gene, Han Solo, and Cary Grant. I was 8 or so, c'mon.)

Are you afraid of coral, Kirsten? Coral reefs, the idea of, freaked me out as a child - miles and miles of underwater living, breathing, porous stuff? eek.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

I am afraid of vaginal coral reef. Big time.

― efil4zelffor (deangulberry), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Coral, definitely! I remember going to some touristy beach shop in Florida when I was a kid and my dad handing me a piece of coral and telling me it used to be alive, and I really freaked out.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

"And I feel like I’m being eaten by a thousand Million shivering furry holes"

http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/D7/52/DepecheMode-U2-TheCure/10/1e2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

And more than anything, it's just a shame, because there are lots of ways that a healthy relationship with coral could have enriched my life thus far.

And x-post, OH MY GOD. I am going to have nightmares.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

That said, I am going to try to sleep now. Goodnight.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

On a beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island, there's a narrow crevice/cave that you can only walk through when the tide is low. Its walls are lined with seaweed, kelp, starfish, barnacles, etc. I started walking through, with mere inches on each side, and all around me the sucking, squelching sound of sealife, dying mind you in the absence of water, became too much. It was this whole crew of unsettling things that when combined created a fabulous little paroxysm of fear. Backing out of there was teh fun.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Wow.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

submarines are frightening for a hundred different reasons but surely we can all agree hollowness is the least scary thing about hollowpoint bullets??

cavophobia sounds good - can't believe there is a name for FEAR OF CHINS and not this (sorry geniophobes)

― jones (actual), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

My favourite is the fear of the little growing buds on potatoes. I can totally relate to this - they give me the karates!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I mostly hate the fact that they call them "eyes."

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

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