A saying that relates to astrological signs. A person uses this saying when they believe they are unlucky. There are no 'bad signs' in astrology, but according to legend Capricorn and Scorpio are considered bad signs.
Ferris Bueller: I asked for a car, I got a computer. Hows that for being born under a bad sign?
I tightly stretched my nutsack around her face ear to ear and used my flashlight to illuminate the inside of my scrote within her field of vision. She exclaimed it was the most colorful batsignal she'd ever seen.
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)