A contrabass-brass quartet dat serenades you and thus helps you feel less bored/fatigued while you're wheezingly putting up dalight-duty framing-timbers for a new building.
DANG it all with this "tuba-four job" dat I naively volunteered for--- here I thought I was gonna get a live band to play smooth-jazz music for me while I installed da framework for dis here woodshed, but all I ended up with was a nice big pile of 8-foot economy-stud beams!!
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)