1. Any activity performed by members of the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks team to create feelings of belonging and pride in an otherwise worthless, white collar welfare organization.
2. Metaphor for reciprocating handjobs to other “Skunks” or higher level Skunkworks management to feel a sense of pride or improve group morale.
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)