Posted in Humor, tagged fear, phobia, words on July 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Do big words scare you?
Really long words?
Do you know what the fear of long words is called?
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Brilliant!
Seriously? That makes as much sense as putting an eth ess in the word lithp lisp.
And why is abbreviation such a long word?
Posted in Running, tagged exercise, fear, fitness, health, humor, snake on June 7, 2012| 3 Comments »
It’s not the first time I have had a bug fly in my mouth while running.
But a couple of days ago, when it was somewhat humid, I had the displeasure of this phenomenon again while running through a wooded area on a trail.
Normally, I just spit and grimace in disgust.
But this time was different. This was no gnat. This was no ordinary house fly. This was more like a dragonfly. Maybe a small bird.
It gagged me.
I didn’t throw up, but that would probably have dislodged the varmint from the mucous in the back of my throat. I think it was clinging to my uvula.
It might have been a bat, but perhaps I exaggerate a bit.
To The Bat Cave, Robin!
All I know is that I spit and hacked and coughed and gagged, and I’m not really sure where the thing ended up–hopefully in my stomach, because I never did manage to eject it from my system. It might be living in my sinuses for all I know! It did not, for the record, taste like chicken.
But I would face a whole colony of bats rather than what I ran into today.
It had to be a snake, didn’t it?
It may look to you like the image above, but the picture below is what I saw.
It probably dines on joggers!
theeyelife 