Acronym for I Pulled It Directly Out Of My Ass. Used frequently in the businessworld (OK, maybe not so frequently). Indicates that little thought went into providing an answer, etc. Similar to swag, Scientific Wild Ass Guess.
Boss: "This estimate is way off, how did you come up with it?"
Lackey: "IPIDOOMA!!"
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TV Viewer: "This show is stupid, how did you come up with the plot?"
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)