1) Gene has been giving the latest issue of SWANK the Minturnal Review for over 45 minutes.
2) This is an interesting proposal I will give it a Minturnal Review this afternoon.
A terrible math teacher who doesn’t know how to teach, he doesn’t understand what is going on, and he thinks that every one thinks he is 20, yet in reality he is 50.
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)