Sasaki Kojiro "It's a monologue because your position is already been made clear. Before you were even made aware of my existence which side of the gun you'd be on was already determined. You were always going to going to file in behind the person holding the weapon. No one is ever going to step out in front of the gun because people holding it will always shoot through you to get to me."
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)