Anyone Want Anything From The Shop?
Used by small offices everywhere on messenger groups in advance of a trip to the local shop.
1:37:34 PM Justin: AWAFTS?
1:37:44 PM James: no thanks
1:38:06 PM Matthew: can i have a big 8 sausage roll please
1:38:09 PM Luke: can you post this letter please
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)