A phrase used to represent someone that is always saying odd things, or things out of context with the original topic of conversation. This is also a term used for really smart people who always share their knowledge about a specific topic, whether they were asked to or not.
When you ask someone to hit the button for your floor on the elevator and they say. I was 14 once. I remember it well, I got a bike for my birthday that year. You say to them, you are a strange cookie.
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)