a fictional disease that originates amongst the homeless population (specifically the ones that live in boxes).
Every day, millions of homeless men and women contract the disease "Smallbox." in order to cure these helpless people we must force them to get into the box. the only cure is the box itself.
Symptoms include:
Claustrophobia
poor hygiene
"herpegonasiphilaids"
rash on your underarms
we must find a cure
wow Erin's Smallbox is really bad, maybe she should have gotten into the box instead of rip it up and put it on my bed.
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)