When you use two telephones at the same time to hear the same thing in both ears: A reciever on each ear, speaking into the two transmitters. This is useful in loud environments to block out the noise, or to amuse yourself when talking to someone really boring.
Because Nancy was so boring to talk to, Bob had to use phonephones. Coming through the two speakers, his voice sounded like Iron Man.
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)