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Fortean
1. A subject of the unexplained, unknown, paranormal, cryptozoology, ufology, or other related field. A subject that is considered Fortean is one that cannot be explained through known means.
2. One who studies and investigates the unexplained.
3. Of or relating to Charles Fort. The term is derived from the name Charles H. Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, who is widely regarded as the father of paranormal investigation.
2. One who studies and investigates the unexplained.
3. Of or relating to Charles Fort. The term is derived from the name Charles H. Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, who is widely regarded as the father of paranormal investigation.
Fortean by The Unknown User December 22, 2008
fortean
relating to an interest in oddball psuedo-science, cryptozoology, alien big cats, ufology, and the like more from an inquisitive standpoint than a sensationalistic one. a fortean is just as happy to provide/glean information that would debunk a phenomenon as they would be to prove or further a study.
bob watches "ghost hunters", but he's not convinced that ghosts are intelligent entities, but more likely a recording on space, or a side-effect of electro-magnetic interference, because he's a fortean.
fortean by Wordcrimes December 14, 2007
fogey
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!
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)