A mental disorder in which, rather than dissociating with one's own personality, one uncontrollably associates an object (the subject) with an unrelated item (the result).
Person 1 - "What do cigarettes remind you of?" Person 2 - "An angel. The golden band reminds me of a halo." Person 1 - "Oh, snap! You've got a bad case of ARC (Associative with Random Crap) Disorder!"
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)