When two people argue who has the best wit in the course and they are being over-polite to one another.
Guy one: you are smarter than me in this course
Guy two: no you are
Guy one: no you are...
The cycle continues until one side becomes exhausted and concede the victory to another.
Guy one: "Look, they are arguing over who is smarter in that course again."
Guy two: "ahh let them be, that's the Eliansen Conundrum and they will eventually figure it out."
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)