December 22nd is national humble a private school boy day. A day to humble a boy who went to private (most likely christian) school with an astronomical ego.
“hey it’s December 22nd”
“so what”
“it’s national humble a private school boy day!”
“alright let’s open snap it’s time to make sure these boys don’t get out of line again”
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)