An expression used to define something terrible being brightened up by some funny, wholesome or amazing action.
For example: When "shit hits the fan" and your day can't seem to get any worse, your best friend or co-worker the most hilarious thing to brighten up your day.
You've been feeling sick, had a terrible day at work and have to do a few hours overtime.
You find out you and your favorite co-worker are the only ones left at work for the rest of the time.
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)