Rule that states that a gay male at 18 starts worrying what people think about him, at 40 stops worrying what people think about him, and at 60 realizes no one was thinking about him the whole time.
If I had known about the 18/40/60 Rule at age eighteen, I would have understood the changes I saw in my peers.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)