Peter: -You knew that I changed my will and left everything to the record, and that's why you wanted the record out of the way. Meg wanted a passport for her twin sisters to get her outta the country but the record wouldn't allow it. But Meg didn't count on me discoverin' that she has no twin sister and that Meg herself was recently released from the sanatorium and that's where Chris came in to the picture!
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)