a wonderful day of getting off of school for many kids since they can't get a snow day (although some places do get both).
oh, how great an occasion it was to learn that we were possibly getting a hurricaneday...
yeah. guess what- it turned out to be that bitch, and the wonderful city I live in was destroyed. see: New Orleans
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)