The sound of an air raid siren, produced solely by synthesizer hardware or computer software synthesis.
No real air raid sirens are dented with a hammer, mutilated, or even destroyed when synthetic air raid sirens are deployed
Timmy, you've just got to "lissen" to the zax from the Commodore Amiga demo, "Massive" by the Commodore Amiga computer demo group Skarla! You can hear synthetic air raid sirens at the very beginning!
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)