roboforks
roboforks by spunkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy December 4, 2019
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robodork
A scientist, usually of the younger generation, who feels cool wearing his/her lab glasses (or laser protection goggles, VR headset, whatever scientific headgear he/she wears).
Reference to the 80s movie Robocop.
Reference to the 80s movie Robocop.
Dave and Simon sit in the laser lab. Dave has nothing to do and puts on Simon's laser protection goggles. Gareth walks in and gets a suspicious look from Dave. Gareth says sarcastically "Oh no, it's robodork!" (All done in friendly irony, of course. Scientists enjoy irony.)
robodork by interlooper September 5, 2008
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
or
"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
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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)