Eccentric Flower talk:200907/Tropes Receivable

ProfRobert:

I would have thought "pogonophilia" meant someone who didn't like Walt Kelly's comic strip.

-- 18:15, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Bunny42:

It was great fun trying to guess what the phobia would be. I was just sure that one would be about Pogo. Didn't get a single one correct. Still trying to figure out the peanut butter.

-- 18:47, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Mrissa:

All right, you.

-- 20:29, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Well, take that with a grain of salt. "Arachibutyrophobia" is specifically supposed to be "a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth," it is generally deemed to be a joke, and it sounds like the guy Sullivan linked simply changed -phobia to -philia and used it for People Who Love Peanut Butter A Little Too Much.

That said (he says, putting his language geek hat on), "arachi-" refers to the plant family that the peanut is in (in fact peanuts are "arachides" in strict French), and "butyro-" means "butter" (from bou[s] "ox, cow" plus tyro[s], "cheese"), so it's the "roof of the mouth" part that was never in the original coinage, and "arachibutyrophilia" is correct as Sullivan's source article uses it.

And I have no trouble whatsoever believing there are People Who Love Peanut Butter A Little Too Much. Oh, the kinks I've seen ....

-- 20:36, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Andy:

I thought it was just me with the TVTropes web site. If it's you and xkcd too, it's the site, not me. Anyone who can figure out just why that site is so insanely addictive will become very rich.

-- 22:25, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Ursula:

I assumed Pogonophilia was an erotic fixation on Pogo. How disappointing.

I meant to send you a link to http://www.oglaf.com. Click around the archives. I suspect this could turn out to be your favorite thing ever.

-- 23:50, 13 July 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Ursula, that is crude and sexy and rude and disgusting and hilarious.

(Good find.)

-- 00:28, 14 July 2009 (BST)

Yarnivore:

Beards! I like beards! I didn't know that's what that word meant!

Oh...um...hmm.

-- 06:05, 15 July 2009 (BST)

Settsimaksimin:

"Honestly Anne, you have *no* taste."

thank you for another delightful addition to the must-read list.

-- 15:22, 15 July 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Sometimes Beaton's cartoons aren't about anything in particular; sometimes they are just sketches of things - but that's okay, the randomness of it is one of the things I like about her.

-- 15:59, 15 July 2009 (BST)

Settsimaksimin:

it reminds me just a bit of the late Perry Bible Fellowship. on a tenuous tangent, have you seen this bit for Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZVE5uF24Q

"What care I for strange noises when there is such a man?" <snort>

-- 21:25, 15 July 2009 (BST)