Okay, I got to ask my fellow baby boomers.

[Emile]

How many of you spoke into a fan to sound like a robot?

[lark]

1. As a child in FL when we didn't have air conditioning, fans ran all the time and this was a regular pastime.

My sister and I would take turns sitting in front of the fan and "talking funny".

[MuseRider]

2. I still do!

[gab13by13]

3. Dang it,

I missed that one.

I put a baseball card on the spoke of my bike.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. ((Raises hand))

[mwmisses4289]

5. Yup, yup, yup.

[Marthe48]

6. I did

We didn't have AC, just a huge window fan mounted on 2x4s. Every spring when my parents put it in the window, my Mom warned us not to put our fingers in the blades. But it was okay to sing and talk into it.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. At least two or three times.

And back then, we had some heavy duty fans.

[lastlib]

8. I did it once....

...but it ruined my voice....

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Guilty as charged

When I heard Darth Vader on the big screen for the first time, I was transported back to the ersatz physics lab of my youth.

[JoseBalow]

18. "Happy Time"

(0:39)

[debm55]

10. I did.

[Harker]

11. There's a fan running in the kitchen.

I'm going to try it now!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. I tried but the

lady waving it beat me bloody! 😢

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Of course!

Also, when I was a scientist teacher in the 80s, I had a desk fan in my classroom. I picked up a strobe light at a garage sale and used it when we were studying "waves". By adjusting the speed of the strobe, I could make the fan "slow down", reverse or even freeze!

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Did That In HS, Too

We took it outside and, in the dark, lit up a reciprocating sprinkler with the strobe.
It doesn't stop the spray, but it looks like the water is in slow motion!

[Emile]

17. Ouch

[Maninacan]

15. What?

Never heard of this. i better try it.

[LogDog75]

16. Yep, I did that

I think every Boomer as a kid did that.

[Xavier Breath]

20. Not an activity exclusive to Boomers, of course, as this Gen-Xer did the same thing.

In the summer, I would tie a sheet to the handle of our floor fan and create what I called a 'wind tunnel,' and would lie on the carpet under the fluttering sheet trying not to sweat. Sometimes it worked.