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What do you call someone that collects fans?


Frank McCormack

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The new issue of the Costco Connection magazine came out and has an article about collectors.  I reviewed the list of names which I have attached of some collectors names and started wondering what would be someone who collects more than a couple fans might be called.  

I spent a little time googling around and came up empty.

So I started pondering a few suggestions to throw out there in case we don't already have anything and get the conversation going.
I submit for consideration:
- Oscillationist
- Spiniologist (prob not, taken by the media)
- Amputologist or Digiamputologist
- Brasshordologist
- Boreasilist, Eurusilist or Zephyrusilist (after the gods of winds)
- Fantophilliast

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17 minutes ago, George Durbin said:

My brother says we are "Fan Nerds"

Yes!,...  smack dab
in the middle.

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Finger Chopper Lover. If I had a $10 bill for every antique fan I bought that the seller was worried about someone losing a finger with it, I could buy an 1890 Belding off of eBay.

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My wife calls us plain crazy. I think the word obsessed has left her mouth from time to time also.  

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Should have a Latin derivative...

ventilatrum, ventilatri = fan,ventilator

 

And to save you all the trouble of looking it up...

delirus, delira, delirum = crazy, insane, mad; senseless, silly

deliro, delirare, deliravi, deliratus = be mad/crazy/deranged/silly; deviate from balks (plow)

 

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3 minutes ago, Jeff Lumsden said:

Should have a Latin derivative...

ventilatrum, ventilatri = fan,ventilator

 

And to save you all the trouble of looking it up...

delirus, delira, delirum = crazy, insane, mad; senseless, silly

deliro, delirare, deliravi, deliratus = be mad/crazy/deranged/silly; deviate from balks (plow)

 

I submit - ventidelirogist or deliroventilatrian

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11 hours ago, Frank McCormack said:

What do you call someone that collects fans?

It's an addiction, so,...
    "Fan-oholic".

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Fan Nazi's.  On the golf course, I pickup good golf tee's, so my son calls me a "tee Nazi

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11 minutes ago, Randy Pierce said:

Fan Nazi's.  On the golf course, I pickup good golf tee's, so my son calls me a "tee Nazi

No fan for you!

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My wife says that a real nerd doesn't know they are a nerd.  

I keep cogitating over that....

Anyway, sounds like we might have a bunch of inputs.  Want to entertain working as a group to come up with a name for someone who collects fans?  Seems like AFCA should be the group to do it.   It seems to me there might be a vacuum open for us to fill.  (He He, vacuums are reverse fans, grin)

Straw pole, should we pursue it?  Maybe a bracket approach?  Other thoughts?

I haven't posted to the FB group yet, should we really open this up?

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Ok then, maybe just real simple....

"A Fan Hobbyist" 

No confusion...M/F, or young person

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11 hours ago, Jim Kovar said:

No fan for you!

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I’ve used “I’m a Fan Nazi” when describing myself to friends who think I’m nuts.  

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Actually, John, so have I.  I give it absolutely no possible connection implied, intended, or imagined, nor can any twist of ANYONE'S thoughts connect me to that horrid part of world history if anyone cares.

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