Sentences with phrase «codgers of»

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

In a delightful Old Testament stroke, the only creatures in the jungle who speak as well as understand human language are two snakes — a codger of a cobra who guards a lost city's treasure and a narcissistic python who likes to drawl, «I am bee - a-uuu-teeful.»

Speaking of fossils, the old codger of an owl in the museum seems fishy too.

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I'll just bet that you don't believe anything that comes out of the Middle East today... why believe anything that those primitive old codgers said?

As for that old codger who has duped his admiring fools; well someone should push his face into a tub of water until he admits he is a CON MAN!

One of the judges who is not my favorite - a stiff old codger from

Will sign off with an Old Codger stat of my own.

«You might find it hard to believe,» he told his young swimmers when Splash arrived, «but this old codger was one of my best freestylers when I first came here during the Boer War.»

Levy was able to keep the aging and brittle Bills afloat this season by doing what he always does: convincing his team of its valor and resiliency and suckering foes into believing that he is a benign old codger.

Kenny you are correct of course.Someonevthat is obviously in total love of Arsenal Football Club But also ridiculously blinkered when it comes to Wenger.You and I together with many thousands upon thousands of, shall we say, more mature fans, (in other words old codgers) will of course recall much much darker periods in this clubs history than what we are going through now.But today is the present and not yesterday.Wenger is yesterday's man (as agreed by 81 % of this sites members).

I'm much younger than a lot of the old codgers on here but I would be.

Who would be in your cabinet and why?Youthful idealists, wily old codgers, dreamers, unmarried millionaires, playwrights, poets, practitioners of the native African Santeria religion, rainmakers, environmentalists, Will Self.

With Baby Boomers becoming grandparents, the stodgy old codger and plump, cookie - baking white frizzy haired grandparents are getting a «Revenge of the Nerds» star Curtis Armstrong dishes on Tom Cruise and John Goodman in upcoming memoir

Of course, there is nothing stopping you from being an unpleasant old codger if you wish.

Already playing old codgers by the mid-1910s, McKee delivered one of the funniest and most improbable moments in B - Western history, when, disguised as a bedraggled señorita, he sprang Ken Maynard from prison in Range Law (1931).

Brennan was fitted for a set of false teeth that worked fine, and wearing them allowed him to play lean, lanky, virile supporting roles; but when he took them out, and the reedy, leathery voice kicked in with the altered look, Brennan became the old codger with which he would be identified in a significant number of his parts in the coming decades.

There's little indication, beyond the endlessly unfunny school humiliations and fogey - dom signposts (ha ha, he uses Old Spice), that the notion of a preteen codger is worth our sympathies.

Meanwhile, the codger's daughter continually attempts to get him committed because of his overly generous support of his former colleagues.

Shelly's lasting legacy, then, is this exquisite, engaging film about stunning, sincere slices of life — Russell's luminous lead, a narrative in no hurry to hit familiar notes, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude.

Dylan suffers at the hands of funny fat - kid bully Kevin (Julian Dennison), whose actions seem particularly callous given the recent tragic past; Grandpa (Terry Norris) is a randy old codger (wink - wink scenes with Dylan as he skips between bedrooms at the local nursing home are off - putting), who encourages his grandkid's imagination but seems ignorant of the financial strife his grief - stricken family is in.

A nice touch is added with the brief inclusion of Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as Mortimer and Randolph, the swindling old codgers given their just desserts in «Trading Places», Murphy's previous project with director John Landis.

In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

Supporting roles have somewhat of a greater impact on the viewer, starting with Harrison Ford doing a rare bit of stretching as the wildly - eyebrowed codger with an unrecognizable accent.

Her crude bluntness lends a more overt sense of humor to the movie; she's the crazy codger that screenwriter Bob Nelson refuses to let Woody become.

Robert Duvall dominates «Get Low» from the off, easing into the part of crusty codger Felix Bush like an old shoe and spiriting the film away from under the noses of several other very fine actors.

Crusty old codger Tommy Lee Jones makes the mad scientist more plausible than logic dictates while Englishman Gary Oldman shows up as an American, even though most of the movie is set in Oldman's own home town of London.

Sean Connery repeats his crusty - old - codger bit from The Untouchables as Indy's dad in the immensely fun third chapter of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones series.

His debut Old Goats (SIFF» 11) and his new Burkholder both concern a group of of elderly, sometimes cantankerous codgers facing their retirement years on Bainbridge Island, where the director grew up.

More than that, it's about two very different young men who, together, stick it right up a pair of devious old codgers, make themselves a fortune, and curry favour with the audience in the process.

Makin» wookiee In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

The old codger Max Rafferty, an outspoken state superintendent of education in Califor - nia, once denounced the progressive school Summerhill, saying:

I envy the lucky kids who are fortunate enough to own one of these cars, and not just because they're several decades younger than this old codger.

But for every grumbling codger who departs this mortal coil there's a new baby born who seems to know how to do a two - finger swipe on an iPhone touch screen right out of the womb.

At that point, I'm giving up on the old codgers & assuming nobody makes it past 102 yrs of age!

«Cos what's more comforting & uncorrelated an investment than a bunch of codgers popping their clogs?!

I quite amused myself then at how simple I made it sound because it's not even close to being a simple case of hunt the old codger down and permanently put him in a morgue.

Perhaps I'm simply suffering from the typical codger's syndrome of imagining things have gone to hell since back in my day.

Here at Legal Blog Watch we like to mark the passing into obscurity of certain trappings and technologies of the lawyer's life (for better or worse, there are always a few tradition - bound codgers who refuse to let things become completely obsolete).

Although there's a lot of interesting information in the special issue, the Codger Competence issue is only touched upon indirectly.

A frequent claim by Fetid Fatherings and their advocates (contrary to what a review of the literature actually shows) that the bias is against men, is exemplified by one codger's oft - repeated truism.

A couple of happy old codgers standing in the liquor store exchanging Real Estate war stories.