{"id":3814,"date":"2006-05-18T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T16:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/18\/of-abnormal-psychology-and-meeting-women\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:17:22","slug":"of-abnormal-psychology-and-meeting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/18\/of-abnormal-psychology-and-meeting-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Of abnormal psychology and meeting women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3014,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alaska.net\\\/~royce&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6528,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/profiles.yahoo.com\\\/pyropedonecrobestiality&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/profiles.yahoo.com\\\/pyropedonecrobestiality&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Many years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.net\/~royce\/\" title=\"Royce Williams' Home Page\">Royce<\/a> and Jana (the &#8220;untamed librarian,&#8221; in Royce&#8217;s words) were taking an abnormal psychology class together.<\/p>\n<p>One slow day, they decided to relieve their in-class boredom by stringing together every symptom they could think of into one long word\u2026then figure out what it meant.<\/p>\n<p>The result:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pseudocoitoxenohematomysonecropyrobestioacroclaustro-ochlohydrophobia<\/strong>: The fear of being forced to pretend to have sex with the unfamiliar bloody infected corpse of a flaming animal at 15,000 feet in a small crowded wading pool.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, when I was hanging out in the Yahoo chat rooms, I attempted to use this for a screen name, but it was far too long. Instead, I pared it down to <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.yahoo.com\/pyropedonecrobestiality\" title=\"Yahoo: pyropedonecrobestiality\">pyropedonecrobestiality<\/a>, and used that as my default chat name. One day the name caught the eye of someone else in the chat room, who figured that anyone who\u2019d use that for a name had to have both a sense of humor and a few brain cells to rub together, and they struck up a conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and that\u2019s how Prairie and I first started talking. Eventually (after somewhere over a year) we actually met in person, and things gradually went on from there, but at least at the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n<p>I met my girlfriend because the chat name I was using declared that I was sexually aroused by having intercourse with the flaming corpse of an underaged puppy.<\/p>\n<p>Bet\u2019cha there\u2019s not too many people who can make <em>that<\/em> claim when asked how they met their significant other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id= xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa %252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253F artistTerm%253DPigface%2526songTerm=Mind Your Own Business%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Mind Your Own Business' on the iTMS\">Mind Your Own Business<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/ stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid= 1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252F MZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252Fadvanced SearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Pigface' on the iTMS\">Pigface<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type= 3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple. com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search. DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DPigface%2526 albumTerm=Easy Listening...%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Easy Listening...' on the iTMS\">Easy Listening&#8230;<\/a> <\/em> (2002, 3:25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met my girlfriend because the chat name I was using declared that I was sexually aroused by having intercourse with the flaming corpse of an underaged puppy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,13],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}