"Poking the Sleeping Bag" is a phrase used to describe the act of persistently probing someone for information, especially when they have made it clear that the topic is off-limits or confidential. Its often a really annoying thing to do to someone.
Jake: Yo Davey, what do you do for work bro?
Davey: Can't tell bro, my bosssaid i should keep it a secret
Jake: What do you mean? What do you do for work man?
Davey: I just told you why! don't start Poking the sleeping bag!
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)