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As Miss Mimi over at OEDILF has just pointed out Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie have named their baby Shiloh.

Shiloh Pitt?

I knew Brad wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer but has he never heard of Spoonerisms?


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That's hilarious! Big Grin
 
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It anagrams to Hip Hot Slit (!) and, thanks to her mother's famous labia, Hottish Lip.
 
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Oh, that is so sad.


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So you're a fan, eh? Being a professed curmudgeon, I can't be one since her picture's on all those grocery store checkout line fanzines.
 
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Asa, I thought it was I who was the resident curmudgeon
 
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Is there an antonym to fan? That's what I am of both Shilo's parents.
 
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BTW, Bob, this is a small matter, but I just went over to OEDILF to see the thread that mentions this. It was alkahuna who pointed it out, not Miss Mimi.
 
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Kalleh, see the movie, "Airplane," wherein something is shown hitting the fan. Wink
 
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Originally posted by Kalleh:
BTW, Bob, this is a small matter, but I just went over to OEDILF to see the thread that mentions this. It was alkahuna who pointed it out, not Miss Mimi.


You're right of course. I don't know how I misread it.


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Is there an antonym to fan? That's what I am of both Shilo's parents.

Hmm - what would we call you, then? Antifanous?


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The antonym is "sensible person." "Fan" is a shortened form of "fanatic."
 
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Fanatic is an interesting word; from the Latin fanaticus 'pertaining to a temple; inspired by divinity, enthusiastic; frantic, furious, mad', from fanum 'a sacred place; temple', from PIE *dhes- 'something religious', whence Greek θεος (theos) 'god'. (The Latin word is also related to feriae 'holidays' and festus 'festive'.)


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And presumably related to "profane".


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And presumably related to "profane".

Yes, Bob, the area outside of the fanum 'temple' was considered to be profanus 'unholy, not sacred, common, or profane'.


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But not profane as is commonly used today. We'd consider it more mundane, I think. Mircea Eliade's book, "The Sacred and The Profane" uses it in this way. And how many people would see entheusiasm as "god within"?
 
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I found this link about fan interesting, since it talks about fans in other languages. Interesting that fan can mean "Damn!" in Swedish; "leaf" in Rohingya (what's that?); "to wait" in Irish; and "pubic hair" in Hungarian ("fanszőrzet").
 
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Here's more than you ever thought it possible to learn about Rohingya.
 
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quote: "fan can mean ...'pubic hair' in Hungarian"

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to ever have that particular datum.
 
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