NUMB3R5

In case you suffer from Rainman-type fixation on numbers you may not find this interesting. And in case you suffer from Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (fear of the # 666), Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the #13), Tetraphobia (fear of the #4), or just general numerusphobia (fear of numbers), you may want to avoid reading further.

This Saturday at 3 minutes and 4 seconds past 2AM it will be:

02:03:04 05/06/07

Of course only if you are using something other than the American date notation (which is day/month/year...in which case this occurs on 02:03:04 05/06/07 - being the 5th of June). Although the exact occurance won't occur for another 100 yrs (or 30 days if you fly to Europe) the next one will be 03:04:05 06/07/08 next June. But that's stretching it a bit.

And for interesting note - there is a fascinating topic of phobias and how they are described. Although the majority of them are not real or official (not to belittle any of your real fears).

Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th (watch out Knight Templers!)

Melissophobia - Fear of bees - not our new cousin Melissa

Aibohphobia - Fear of Palindromes (look closely)

Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

Arachnophobiaphobia - From Lorelei Gilmore - the fear of people afraid of spiders

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of really long words

or my favorite

Luposlipaphobia - from Gary Larson - fear of being chased by timber wolves around your kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor

Let's see if you can come up with any. I offer:

Compositulibriphobia - Fear of scrapbooking (from Latin compusitus - made up of pieces, libri - book)

HRP