Lifeguard slang for seiving turds out of a swimming pool. This is usually done after clearing the pool, followed by a 1 hour break from pool use while you 'shock' the pool (i.e. dump a ton of chemicals into it and the run the filters at full blast).
I had to go fishing for brown trout today during the 'mother and baby' swim lessons. At least I got paid for an hour of playing computer games while the filters did their thing.
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)