An advanced alloy used in the manufacture of snow skis. Named for its dual properties of rigidity and pliability. Particularly unique for its ability to be initially rigid but ultimately receptive to probing when properly manipulated.
Mike and Jimmy’s titanal framed skis provided sufficient rigidity and buttery feel to satisfy both Jimmys demands for stiffness on the front side and mike’s needs for pliability on the back side.
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)