What somebody is going to breathe instead of oxygen if you stick their head next to an exhaust pipe intentionally.
If a guy has a knee on his neck while his head is right near an exhaust pipe of a car, he has nothing to take in but car exhaust. Just like somebody sitting in a garage with the grage door closed and a car running. Death is from both lack of oxygen and carbon monoxide.
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)