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Dinsdale by Mike Dinsdale November 28, 2006
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Dinsdale Moment
A particular point in a conversation with someone where you find someone has ceased to regard anything you say and are quite content to have a continuous monologue with themselves. Any attempt by you to re-join the conversation is usually ignored.
A term used frequently around the South of England amongst school children and college students. Nobody is completely sure of its origin, or in fact, if it is inspired by a true person.
A term used frequently around the South of England amongst school children and college students. Nobody is completely sure of its origin, or in fact, if it is inspired by a true person.
Jerry: Hey Tom, how long has he been talking?
Tom: Last time i checked, about half an hour.
Jerry: Do you think we should maybe ask him what the hell he's going on about?
Tom: I wouldn't bother, he won't listen, he's having a Dinsdale Moment.
Barny: Alright John, what's your opinion on the Green party policies?
Greg: Shit Barny! what are you doing? You actually want John to have a Dinsdale Moment?
Barny: Sure, it's hot in here and we can use his mouth as a fan.
Tom: Last time i checked, about half an hour.
Jerry: Do you think we should maybe ask him what the hell he's going on about?
Tom: I wouldn't bother, he won't listen, he's having a Dinsdale Moment.
Barny: Alright John, what's your opinion on the Green party policies?
Greg: Shit Barny! what are you doing? You actually want John to have a Dinsdale Moment?
Barny: Sure, it's hot in here and we can use his mouth as a fan.
Dinsdale Moment by Libertie-Equalite-Fraternite June 11, 2009
fogey
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!
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)