Acronym for "Holding stomach trying not to laugh out loud"
Often used when in an office, place of worship, funeral, wedding, or other location where laughing out loud would either 1) cause a scene or 2) make others weirdly uncomfortable.
Ralph had to HSTNTLOL when the reverend referred to his dearly departed friend Richard Johnson as "the most upstanding, hard working, firm, and steadfast member of the Johnson family."
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)