h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Since there's a thread on phobias, it's only fair.
'Haemophilia' has always struck me as being an odd term.
The American spelling of paedophilia (pedo-) could also be taken as relating to feet. Maybe.
Anything else... prizes given for the most bizarre.

Uhmmm...what kinda prizes?

~jwf~

Badges that say 'Holder of Dubious Knowledge who should be kept from those of nervous disposition'.
And a sock-puppet, if you're lucky.
Why? Think you're in with a chance?

Philadelphilia is the capital of Pennsylvania!
Now where's my sock puppet?

What.... shall..... wedowithhimmmmmmm....., Mr Flibble?

Necrophilia = obsession with and usually erotic interest in or stimulation by corpses

terms like
"bibliophile" -lover of books and
"technophile" -lover of technology
are quite common.

But they are not often written as philias (i.e. not usually bibliophilia or technophilia), I don't think.

There is Philias Fogg (sp?) from "Around the World in Seventynine Days" though!

Om

Not to mention all those philharmonic orchestras.

a lover of life called Ben

Phil-adelphia actually means brotherly love.
Hey jwf - peace bro!
***B

Philo-dendrons are almost the easiest house plants (means lover of trees because the twine round trunks of other things in jungles. Tradescantia are even easier
I quote Chambers compact (not sure if it will get through moderation, though):- "2 an abnormal and usually sexual liking or love of the sepcified thing"

*RL is currently limiting my online fun to less than an hour a day No time to look things up so I have to ask silly questions*

So "tradescantia" are plants then? Like tradescantially clad plants or what? (If Wumbeevil were here he'd say 'scantilly plaid clants' or summat like that.)

And for the greek scholars: Does that wonderful pastry (filo/philo/phylo) have anything to do with the root word in question here. I mean it's 'lovely' pastry. A labour of love to be sure. And I really love it, so am I a phylophiliac?

peave
~jwf~ (not from Philly but I look like Walt Whitman)

tradescantia are plants named after John Tradescant C17 plant collector, whose garden in London was restored a few years back and is 'vaut le visite' We used to call the common stripey tradescantia 'wandering jew'
philander is an interesting phil;etymologically it ought to mean lover of men

I thought homophiliacs were men lovers. Hmm.. this philo thing is starting to grow on me.
So ..philanthropy has nothing to do with Phil or his entropy.
And philosophers love sophers. And philanderers do it on sofas.

*Being silly in a nervous kinda way because Mandy - the founder of the question - has threatened me elsewhere with "a thousand screaming deaths" for taking the p ..uhm mickey in this thread with my offering of Philadelphilia (which might be a suburb of Philly - like the littler brotherly/love of the city of brotherly/love)*

peace
~jwf~ (who finds the concepts brother and love mutually exclusive)

Sorry jwf, but I've been subjected to so many puns over the weekend that my fragile outer membrane is beginning to crack.
I won't really harm any of you, honest.
(unless, perhaps, anyone else calls me Mandy. Since we've discussed plants, if you wish to shorten please use the more common bisyllabic form of the name, rather than the polysyllabic Latinate.)
Heheh! That's all today's big words got rid of.

Do you mean that you want to be called Mandrake Looview?

I'm a prizeophiliac

Heheh...
...there's some lovely filth down here!
Hyphephilia: which has been ignored by everyone, until yesterday. So I'm sticking up for it.

Wondering if the new H2G2 Battle of Britain blueskin system
would still allow access to old convos I was saddened to find
it only goes back a month or so.

While it's still available I went testing the old alabaster skin
to see some of my earliest convos and found this from the
summer of 2001, a few weeks prior to 9/11.

Most of those in this thread have changed their names but I
wonder who they have become and if they're still subscribed.


~jwf~

Some of us ARE still hanging on by our fingernails. Philadelphia to me means cream cheese. I've obviously beome too susceptible to ads.

I visited Philadelphia recently. I discovered that its alternative nickname of the City of Brotherly Lovehandles wasn't undeserved.

Sadly I did little to disavow. Mmmm those cheesesteaks


BTW I think this thread might just be a contender for the oldest thread with the most still-active users on hootoo.