B. Johnson: "Are you saying they're abdicating their duty to scrutinize me?"
"Are you saying that they haven't the guts to put the questions to me?"
"Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies!"
Pre-prepared and irrelevant response poshlondon mayor once threw in rather than answer a straight question. Skillfully ignored by the people it was aimed at as it was an irrelevant insult and only funny to the 13 year old watching on YouTube 8 years afterwards.
ABJ: "You great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies!"
Everyone else: "Oh gawd, not that again! please try and come up with something new and relevent as an insult as that wasn't [even funny when we were 14..."
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)