• The ۰ Hump۰hries Effect
- Social Phenomenon
- Involved in the absorption of any knowledge that embodies artistic, political, and social information.
The known and unified example of creative and intellectual contamination subjectively appearing in any forum where information is distributed in the human social dynamic.
A reference to the living example of a unquestioned abomination of the artistic social realm
-- vis a vis: The Equation trying to balance itself out.
Chad: "Hey, want to check out that new 'Space Town' movie? I hear it's really good."
Tad: "Nah, that movie has some serious Humphries Effect; Eddie from work totally loved it and Eddie from work is a total douche"
Chad: "I understand, for I am all too aware of the potency of The Humphries Effect and the effect it has upon creative materials we all try to enjoy."
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)