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Gaylord Perry
Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (inducted in 1991) who won 314 games and pitched for 8 teams, chiefly with the San Francisco Giants. He is best known for throwing spitballs, an illegal pitch doctored with foreign substances.
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. - Gaylord Perry
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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)