Noun. When a person is so incredibly brilliant that they can do something like invent an Iphone, but they cannot do simple things like tie their shoes so they wear velcro sneakers. The man who invented the microprocessor is velcro shoes smart.
Dr. K figured out how to put RAM, all the registers, flash memory, and the CPU all into one microcontroller. He is velcro shoes smart.
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)