In the game Gears of War 2, if you are in third place in a multiplayer match or horde, you are dubbed 3rd Place McGee. 3rd Place McGee is the most dangerous player because he is not in the top two or bottom two. It is better to be in last place than 3rd. When you are 3rd Place McGee, expect to be made fun of, a lot. No one wants to be 3rd Place McGee.
A woman, who would not necessarily be viewed as beautiful, but because of her husband's ability to secure a younger gal is seen by him as a great catch.
After he divorced his wife of 42 years, old Goldsmith got himself a 3rd Place Trophy Wife.
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)