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never saw a fat person in the Netherlands, or France for that matter; see lots of obese Americans though, just saying...
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I wish to coin a new word to mean the panic that gets developed when you come to know, through Google that an idea that you thought as unique, worked out for so long, exists already.
What's your suggestion?
1. itexistophobia
2. Googleophobia
3. patentedophobia
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#3 wouldn't be valid, as the idea might already exist in the public domain, but just has never been patented.
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Combination between Cainotophobia ,Centophobia and Kainophobia 
Kacaincephobia maby? 
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Centophobia
Close to CentosPhobia. People'd think you don't like Linux.
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To know the true awesomeness of CodeProject, go ahead and google CentosPhobia. 
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but the meaning is exactly the opposite.
What I'm referring is about finding something *old*.
If it exists already, it existed already 
So wrong guess! Let's find a new word 
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okay I typed it in a hurry. let me explain it again?
What I asked for was, "The fear of finding something existing". something existing means- it's old. It exists already.
But the phobias that you mentioned are all about trying something new that doesn't exist? Trying to change from existing ones. Did this confuse you more? hehe
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The face was for me putting the wrong phobias together
Lets try combining it with Cyberphobia (Centophobia)
So how about Cencyphobia 
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I would suggest from the Ancient Greek origins it would be something along the lines of KainoIdiologiProaGnosticoPhobia.
New Idea Previously Known o Phobia
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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A bit of I/O overload! may be i & O
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I think Apple already owns iPhobia...
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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somesmuggitgottherefirstophobia
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I have a phobia to spell long words.
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yeah - and #2 is for the worst case scenario where you only find out the idea already exists when you are trying to register the domain name....
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Yeah truly!
Even this applies when you try for any account name online.
I had that when I couldn't get a gmail account on my real name! 
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Ohbuggerophobia!
Although, on second thought, that suggests a possible fear of something else entirely!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hiroo Onoda has died.
Who He?
To this day when the grass in the garden is getting long we joke "It is so long there are Japanese soldiers in there who still think the war is on".
Hiroo Onoda[^] was that man.
What an arse.
30 years in a jungle because he was too proud to admit Japan lost a war.
Still, it makes for a great story.
Technically I suppose he was the longest serving Lieutenant in the Japanese Army, and a record unlikely ever to be broken.
(I wonder how much back pay he received?)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: (I wonder how much back pay he received?)
They paid attention when he surrendered. What else does he need?
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well he bought a farm in Brazil so propably a few yen ya ken
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Dalek Dave wrote: What an arse.
A bit harsh.
Dalek Dave wrote: 30 years in a jungle because he was too proud to admit Japan lost a war.
Not what the story said.
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The young soldier had orders not to surrender - a command he obeyed for nearly three decades.
"Every Japanese soldier was prepared for death, but as an intelligence officer I was ordered to conduct guerrilla warfare and not to die," he told ABC in an interview in 2010.
"I became an officer and I received an order. If I could not carry it out, I would feel shame. I am very competitive," he added.
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Mr Onoda ignored several attempts to get him to surrender.
He later said that he dismissed search parties sent to him, and leaflets dropped by Japan, as ploys.
"The leaflets they dropped were filled with mistakes so I judged it was a plot by the Americans,"
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He may have been an enemy soldier, but one has to admire his resolve.
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JimmyRopes wrote: "The leaflets they dropped were filled with mistakes so I judged it was a plot by the Americans,"
Was he a grammar nazi?
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Oh I admire his resolve and determinism, but to think that instead of living in a jungle, providing his own food and not having a job, he could have been in a comfortable bed, working hard as a drone in a Japanese corporation, and living in a smog filled metropolis like Tokyo whilst his children....
Wait a minute...
What am I saying?
Right, I am off to the Jungle for the next 30 years!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: longest serving Lieutenant in the Japanese Army,
That depends on when he joined the army. There was Private Tero Nakamura[^] who was the last jap army member to surrender.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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