codgers

The codgers were a ruse, more than half of them the pensioned-off bachelor upper servants of the real members, kept in happy and comfortable retirement here to keep the work of their former masters as secret as anything you'd find at the Foreign Office.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

These were the kinds of folks who are best described as codgers and coots, and who were still leery of that upstart kid Lavell Edwards and wished we could go back to the good old days of Tommy Hudspeth.

Six LDS Writers and A Frog RobisonWells 2008

Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music IDM scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.

Warp Records: Richard H Kirk looks back on a futuristic life 2011

And then, in thirty years, we can send out cantankerous forwarded emails to all the fellow codgers on our cc list about how the kids today weren't even born when all the good stuff happened.

James Napoli: I Miss the Simpler Times When Birds Were Falling Out of the Sky James Napoli 2011

Regardless of how you think things will turn out, you have to admit, it's nice to have someone in there that doesn't look like the same stodgy, uptight, ancient, dried-up old codgers that tend to inhabit the Presidency.

This Post Brought To You By A Late Night whitehouseblog 2009

The married couple behind me, a couple of sweet old codgers, were yapping on and on about how they worked for 30 years at General Motors and were getting a pension PLUS social security and how all they do is fly around the country visiting their kids.

Gene Marks: 5 Things I Don't Understand About the Deficit Gene Marks 2011

These ol codgers have yet to pop a kid, so what gives them any right to question women's bodies?

Sotomayor: 'Perry Mason' influenced her to become a prosecutor 2009

And then, in thirty years, we can send out cantankerous forwarded emails to all the fellow codgers on our cc list about how the kids today weren't even born when all the good stuff happened.

James Napoli: I Miss the Simpler Times When Birds Were Falling Out of the Sky James Napoli 2011

Given that even those old [R] codgers in Congress with dimentia admitted she was the best qualified candidate in 100 years, we must conclude that Coleman's view is either heavily colored by a severe form of politico-cultural retardation or an unusual case of genetic contamination by some form of lower frog.

Sotomayor approved by Senate Judiciary Committee 2009

The married couple behind me, a couple of sweet old codgers, were yapping on and on about how they worked for 30 years at General Motors and were getting a pension PLUS social security and how all they do is fly around the country visiting their kids.

Gene Marks: 5 Things I Don't Understand About the Deficit Gene Marks 2011