A famous 1970's rock song by Creedence Clearwater Revival most known for its guitar riff in the beginning, middle and the end. Skiers often refer this type of music as a "ski resort music"
*Clearwater Creedence Revival: (guitar riff) (sings) "There's a place up ahead and I'm goin' Just as fast as my feet can fly..."
*Skier A: (impressed by the guitar riff) "What is the name of the song playing in the background?"
*Skier B: "Up Around the Bend by Creedence Clearwater Revival"
*Skier A: "Thank you, it's a really catchy song"
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)