These are both smart goals to set, and I know intellectually that kids can learn a great deal from play, but my inner old
fogey still grumbles, "These kids aren't going to school to play games!"
YOU CAN put away the
fogey jokes, because CBS has climbed to the top of Demo Mountain.
Such is the desperation on the Tory backbenches, that one old
fogey, Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, is willing to vacate his 14,000 majority Lincolnshire seat to make way for Boris, whose latest crackpot idea is a level 30% income tax rate, designed to turn the rich into oligarchs and the already hard-up into peasants.
Do you have to be an old
fogey to appreciate that Sean and Paddy operated in an era when men were men?
Stephen Fry: Gadget Man (C4, 8.30pm) He may look like an old
fogey but actually he's got a passion for technology.
YOU can see what Prince Charles is thinking: "How come an old
fogey like Brucie gets a hottie like Wilnelia, and I end up with Mrs Doubtfire?"
THOSE OF US WHO ARE SIGNED-UP MEMBERS of the Old
Fogey Tendency are frequently heard to complain that young people today don't learn enough dates--and that without them it is impossible to gain the essential grounding in chronology that is essential to the development of true historical understanding.
I am a civilised oldish
fogey who goes to the library to escape the mayhem.
Suddenly, however, it was the age of the nerd warrior, like Matthew Broderick in WarGames, outthinking renegade computer programs and the
fogey military planners who didn't understand the dangerous power of technology.
Those of us who belong to the old
fogey faction believe that and are sometimes shocked and a tad offended to see Massgoers looking too ready for the beach or a walk in the woods, even in a downtown parish.
On a single day a few weeks back, I was able to catch Spike Lee attack the film biz and hear young
fogey Jedediah Purdy discourse on the importance of being way too earnest.
Old dance
fogeys in my young day were forever saying that dance was in a bad way--you should have seen Diaghilev, they would mutter into their straggly beards--and now, an old dance
fogey myself, I am shrewdly aware that I may well be traditionally lamenting the snows that always melt each and every yesteryear.
The "young
fogey" is a cult star and fans use the slogan: "Cometh the hour, cometh the Mogg."
