Sentences with phrase «old 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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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