Where Am I Going And Why Am I In This Handbasket?
A term that usually accompanies a snarky comment made about something tragic, in hopes that readers will realize the comment was just snark and that the writer isn't a complete, heartless douche who's going straight to hell. Used occasionally on fark.com
Yeah, I know mass shootings aren't funny, but I was just trying to lighten up this discussion. WAIGAWAIITH?
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)