Opposed to the grape vine, which is how common folk get information and is usually unreliable, the pumkin vine is how important people get information.
Nukka: "I heard you're getting promoted."
Babu: "Where'd you hear that?"
Nukka: "Just through the pumpkin vine."
Opposed to the grape vine, which is how common folk get information and is usually unreliable, the pumkin vine is how important people get information.
"I heard you're getting promoted."
"Where'd you hear that?"
"Just through the pumkin vine."
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)