Sentences with word «fogy»

It would raise revenues the government will badly need to pay for Social Security and Medicare as old fogies like me begin to retire, as well as create incentives for energy conservation, emissions reductions, and clean technology innovation.

Virtual money represents «the new Internet counterculture,» he said, and the movement stands in contrast to today's Silicon Valley establishment: old fogies like Alphabet, Facebook, et al. (I have yet to debrief with the evening's moderator, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, who was not hot on Bitcoin last I checked.)

Haha yes VDay becomes a standard day for us with relationships as old as fogies doesn't it?

So when all the conservative old fogies finally die off, this country will be a much happier, freer, more liberal one.

Sin bothers us less than it did our fathers, not because we sin less, but because we have become wary of guilt complexes and scornful of old fogy scruples.

Sure, our kids are far more intelligent than us old farts but can't we old fogies just take a back seat and let our more intellectualized children make their own rules as o what they themselves want to learn about?

Once again, Ren MacCormack (newcomer Kenny Wormald) is the good - hearted misfit who just wants kids to be able to have fun before they morph into old - fogy adults.

It follows the same old story about a bunch of fun - loving guys who only want to throw orgies and meet chicks, and a young fogy dean (Jeremy Piven) who wants to spoil their fun.

Jennifer Lawrence in a serious movie is starting to feel like an automatic nomination (she's getting that Meryl Streep nomination thing going), but will enough Academy fogies sit through one of Aronofsky's dark and dirty cautionary tales to make the film itself a player?

Maybe this is why the filmmakers have jettisoned most of the old fogy Gene Roddenberry tropes and pitched their cybertent with the under - 25 set — the Twitter Trekkies.

This is what companies like Viz Media and eManga are doing, and they've even managed to make a partial convert out of an old print fogy like me.

But if the recent economic uncertainty has taught us anything, it's that everyone, kids and old fogies alike, should have at least a portion of their investments in fairly safe investments.

Although this stroller is supposedly designed for fogies, we'd happily push it around.

«They were embarrassed that I was going out and just painting like an old fogy from the 1800s.

They were old fogies anyway, who wore wigs, and don't understand the challenges of modern times.

Focused on forward thinking ideas, Phileas only wants to have his work recognized by the grizzled old fogies who run the Royal Academy of Science.

Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) is an inventor who only wants to have his work recognized by the grizzled old fogies who run the Royal Academy of Science.

But, please excuse us old fogies who think this paradigm change is wrong - headed and oppose it.

At the risk of sounding like old fogies, we feel that a great part of sport — every sport — is tradition.

This old fogy is ruining this club and he's so thick - skinned to continue, stay on and even considering signing a new contract at the end of this season.

When did I become the fogy?

And at the risk of sounding like an old fogy, I have to admit that I'm nonplussed by the one - speed transmission.

But Thailand (NYSE: THD) gives the old fogies a run for their money.

Ernest Lawson, a member of the - once revolutionary American group known as the Eight, said to Robert Henri, another group member, «We are now old fogies, my dear man.»

The Stuckists, the old fogies of the art world, had their day in the sun protesting most of what was on show wasn't «real» art.

Uptown with the old fogies, it might have Jackson Pollock for his black swirls, Rauschenberg for his erasures of de Kooning, Jasper Johns for his white flags, Frank Stella for his black stripes, Robert Ryman for his white oil against canvas and metal bolts, and even Judy Chicago for her white china.

Today's law students have keener eyesight than fogies, but I had to wonder about an experiment being conducted at the University of Melbourne.

«Old fogies» don't have LinkedIn Profiles and don't understand how important a LinkedIn Profile is for the success of their job search (which is really too bad!).

On the fogies cruise — long boats or cruise liners — the demographic aboard ship trends toward the «cue tip» community — white hair, white shoes and singing Nearer My God to Thee rather than rapping with Jay - Z.