Yeah, the old codgers who wrote this stuff didn't even know that the southern hemisphere or most of the western hemisphere of the Earth existed. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I had empathy for the old codgers who grumbled when the 911 went... (autoweek.com)
Conventional wisdom says that globular star clusters are the stodgy old codgers of the universe, but it turns out that many of these clusters are young (scientificamerican.com)