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For those of you who missed it, here's a link to a video of Maury torturing a woman with pickles
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2S89Y4shxtE&search=Maury%20Povich

Here's some more Maury
The balloons are out to get her!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62t8CwD9rWQ&search=maury%20povich

These people are terrified of birds and mustard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4PwVhlSvs&search=maury%20povich

So do you think these people are faking it? If not, what's your take on exploiting people's phobias and mental problems for TV ratings?

For those of you who missed it, here's a link to a video of Maury torturing a woman with pickles
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2S89Y4shxtE&search=Maury%20Povich

Here's some more Maury
The balloons are out to get her!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62t8CwD9rWQ&search=maury%20povich

These people are terrified of birds and mustard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4PwVhlSvs&search=maury%20povich

So do you think these people are faking it? If not, what's your take on exploiting people's phobias and mental problems for TV ratings?

if they're dense enough to be there, i'll watch, and laugh

This is better than Mind of Mencia! I'm getting popcorn...
I would say it's wrong, but the fact that those people willingly go to Maury for help negates that.

but....but.......they get free counseling.......by the end of the show, he cures them of the dreaded pickle phobia (yeah, my mom watches it)

Me... You know, there's a word for people afraid of the number six-six-six.

My mother: Wackos.

Some other fun phobias.

Anatidaephobia — Fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you

Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — Fear of long words.

Luposlipaphobia — The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor (fictional, also from Gary Larson in the cartoon series "The Far Side")

Aibohphobia — Fear of palindromes.

Now which one of those is a real phobia?

Oh Maury, once again proving to the world he has no soul.....

Oh Maury, once again proving to the world he has no soul.....
No, that's Oprah...Maury just has no morals.

No, that's Oprah...Maury just has no morals.
I long for the days of Jenny Jones who had neither soul, nor morals, nor a brain. Bring back such highbrow shows as "My preteen daughter dresses like a whore".

No, that's Oprah...Maury just has no morals.


I thought oprah ate maurys soul.....she devours souls in order to fill the abscence of her own.

Lutraphobia-fear of otters
How can you fear something that cute and cuddly?

I long for the days of Jenny Jones who had neither soul, nor morals, nor a brain. Bring back such highbrow shows as "My preteen daughter dresses like a whore".


didnt a guest kill another after one of her "im dating you for 10 years and im gay" episodes?

I thought oprah ate maurys soul.....she devours souls in order to fill the abscence of her own.
No, not Maury's...Regis and Kelly, but not Maury.

No, not Maury's...Regis and Kelly, but not Maury.


i thought regis smacks oprah around with his wallet.

didnt a guest kill another after one of her "im dating you for 10 years and im gay" episodes?
Yep. Who can doubt the quality of a talk show when it leads to murder?

I long for the days of Jenny Jones who had neither soul, nor morals, nor a brain. Bring back such highbrow shows as "My preteen daughter dresses like a whore".
Or... "My 15 Year Old Slept with 30 Men!"

i thought regis smacks oprah around with his wallet.
Oprah will just hit him with the twenty-four karat gold toilet.

Oprah will just hit him with the twenty-four karat gold toilet.


i forgot never to doubt oprahs strength. last person to do that was arsenio hall, and look what happened to him.

i forgot never to doubt oprahs strength. last person to do that was arsenio hall, and look what happened to him.
Look at Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore...it would be that sort of thing.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — Fear of long words.

let us dissect this:
hippopoto: evidently hippopotami
monstroses: giant hippopotami
esquippe: a team of giant hippopotami
dalio: or dalia, a very large flower, worn by the team of giant hippopotami
phobia: fear of all of the above

thus Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear resulting from watching Fantasia as a child, with those dancing hippos. just call me freud.

Look at Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore...it would be that sort of thing.


only more brutal because its oprah

only more brutal because its oprah
Exactly.

Exactly.

only person oprah cannot stand up to is tom cruise

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b158/carminesgodess/oprahghjkdk.gif

only person oprah cannot stand up to is tom cruise

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b158/carminesgodess/oprahghjkdk.gif
Wait for them to meet! We shall at last eliminate her!

Some other fun phobias.
Luposlipaphobia — The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor (fictional, also from Gary Larson in the cartoon series "The Far Side")


How dare you sir. HOWWWW DAAAAAARE YOUUUUUU!!!

My father was killed by a pack of Kitchen-Table Dwelling Wolves.

How dare you trivialize his death by wolves in the kitchen that happened prior to my conception. HOOWWWWW DAAAAAARE YOU...:D