When a mentally challenged person tries to compose a 'ransom note'. Outcomes vary from asking for a billion dollars in an age when this is a small amount of currency to being unable to write said note, due to lack of literacy.
Today I stole this dude's phone, and wrote him a total 'namson rote', all I could come up with was that I had it, and he should give me somthing so I would give it back. I totally choked.
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)