The first recorded historical incidence of sub-atomic experimentation.
A litte-known captain of the British Royal Navy altered the constitution of a potato in an effort to thwart the legendary privateers of the Barbary Coast. Although the methodology is not revealed, speculation suggests Sir Rothage Dubham may have used a penultimator. The critical portion of the only copy of "Insidious Guinea Merchants" is missing.
And he shall call the great heavens (...) and those who encounter QUANTATO shall for evermore be changed.
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)