The nickname for Flint, Michigan. The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It’s even worse than Baghdad’s. And with a total police force of 6 officers, the city's crime is rising and protection is dropping.
Person 1: Bro, where you from?
Person 2: Flint, Michigan.
Person 1: Damn!! Youre from Murdertown?? Who died this week?
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)