The stiffie a man gets when talking about a boring topic that only excites him.
Also the boner a man gets while discussing his male mentor.
Could refer to someone talking about their experiences on the USS Stockham.
"Talking about the human visual model gave the professor a stockham stiffie."
"As the man recounted his early years of training with his famous mentor, he got a stockham stiffie."
"As the sailor talked about his experience on the USS Stockham, he got so excited he developed a stockham stiffie."
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)