in the 60's LSD sometimes heroin users referred to a mystical spiritual out-of-body experience, they spoke about the all-knowing " monkey ". Beatnics, poetry readings, tams Tams sort of scene.
A Double Windsor Knot tied perfectly the first time. The knot has to have the correct width and the tie hangs the correct length: to the belt buckle. When all of the knots characteristics are done correctly on the first try without having to retie the knot, you get a "money knot"
I just tied the perfect money knot... This interview is going to go well.
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)