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| + | #REDIRECT [[FAPA#Where Old Fans Go to Die]] [[Category:redirect]] |
| − | ([[Sneary]]:[[Laney]]) or any parody of this slogan has reference to [[FAPA]], on account of the tenacity with which members clung to the roster toward the end of [[World War II]]. ("FAPA members never quit and rarely died.") [[Laney]], struck by [[Sneary]]'s coinage, stuck this phrase on the masthead of the [[FA]] during his [[OE]]ship (1948). On gaining office, Sneary as VP banned usage of the phrase there or in any [[FAPAzine]]. "Why, I wonder?" wonders [[Burbee]]. "I suppose he decided that it wasn't as funny or as significant as we claimed."
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| − | from [[Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement]] ca. 1960:
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| − | Sneary's term did not refer to the "tenacity with which members clung to the roster" -- in Winter 47-8 there was no waiting list at all. What he meant was that [[actifans]] who had produced important [[subzine]] work were withdrawing from this activity to spend their declining years ([[fannishly]] speaking) in FAPA. And "I wasn't VP [when I banned the phrase from FAPA appearance]" recollects Sneary, "but [[Prexy]]. I made many foolish rulings, like no one being allowed to read a [[FAPAzine]] before the mailing -- including its editor -- and appointing myself, at the end of my term, as FAPA's ex-vice-president for a term of 9 years, to run concurrent with [[Perdue]] (who was the ex-President for 10 years)."
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