A sound effect that usually get uttered when the mental scale of the group ranges anywhere from 1-3 on a scale of 10; or is uttered when there is nothing else to say.
(n) a metaphoric tool used to measure the scheminess involved in a plot
Friend 1: I'll just drive her out to "get lucky rock" then once we're out there I'll just say I'm out of gas and that we'll have to stay the night out there
Friend 2: I don't know man thats about an 8.5 on my schemometer
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)