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?

That's hilarious!

It anagrams to Hip Hot Slit (!) and, thanks to her mother's famous labia, Hottish Lip.

Oh, that is so sad.

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.

Asa, I thought it was I who was the resident curmudgeon

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

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.

Kalleh, see the movie, "Airplane," wherein something is shown hitting the fan.

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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?

The antonym is "sensible person." "Fan" is a shortened form of "fanatic."

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'.)

And presumably related to "profane".

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'.

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"?

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").

Here's more than you ever thought it possible to learn about Rohingya.

quote: "fan can mean ...'pubic hair' in Hungarian"

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