What one says when someone doesn’t listen to you or seemingly doesn’t understand what you are saying despite you being clear.
Did I Stutter?!:
Michael: An urban, yeah, Stanley? You wanna help us out with that?… Stanley, earth to Stanley…
Stanley: Not me.
Michael: Yes you. Come on, Stanley, put your little game down and join the group.
Stanley: No.
Michael: Stanley, we’re havin a little…
Stanley: Leave me alone, dammit.
Michael: We’re havin a little brainstorm session…
Stanley: DID I STUTTER?
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)