A RINGGUTH is most commonly known as someone with a white eyebrow. They take pride in their jokes, yet tend to say them at the wrong times. BE CAREFUL MEN they tend to steal the ladies, especially if they have children as they love being a step-dad! But keep your children away... you never know what they'll do!
n. an enthusiastic fan of the Lord of the Rings movies. Overly emotional and irrational, they honestly believe that every piece of cinema that has or will be produced is inferior to the trilogy, and will often lurk in movie chatrooms making this point abundantly clear. Most have not read the books, or did not until they saw the movies. Most can be identified by the pudding stains on their shirts.
Never discuss the Academy Awards with a ringnut; you'll just give them fuel. Give me a Star Wars geek any day.
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)