The closest confirmation of their origins is spoken in whispers by visionaries who have had a little too much to drink. It is rumored that a group of wandering starry eyed young men and women gravitated towards each other by the forces of fate and have been shaping the world ever since.
"Who are the afreshionados?"
"The origins are both modern and rooted in millions of years of evolutionary development. Contacting them has proved impossible. They find you."
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)