Curmudgeons

Over the ensuing weeks, our conversation has included some interesting commentary from those we lovingly call "curmudgeons," people who not only don't see the pursuit of happiness as their main purpose in life, they look with a bit of suspicion on those who do, and the "Pollyannas," those who can always find the silver lining, even in the darkest of clouds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his "The New Black Aesthetic," (1989,) author Trey Ellis announced the arrival of a generation of African Americans who would place the issue of race in the background unlike we "curmudgeons" and "cranks," who came of age in the 1960s and who are still carrying on like those Japanese soldiers who weren't aware that the war was over. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"curmudgeons" of the newsrooms (to name only one sub-species of journalists) and insurgent bloggers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is, unless it's more fun to read curmudgeons engage in a pizzing contest out here in thin air. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, several contributors are disparaging of those who question the Internet's costs, dismissing such people as "neophobic" or "curmudgeons and troglodytes." ❋ Christine Rosen (2011)

No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube. ❋ Mike Sielski And (2011)

The first time I attended Book Expo was so long ago it was called ABA, the American Booksellers Association pause to shout out to my fellow curmudgeons who don't believe that mashing together a non-word like "Expo" with a perfectly good word like "Book" is an improvement on either one, nor that putting the mashup next to "America" can turn the latter into an adjective. ❋ Peter Ginna (2011)

Log in to Reply old curmudgeons or just homely fugitives? smile - nt ❋ Unknown (2009)

Environmentalists, opposition politicians and other curmudgeons say it's not. ❋ Joseph Sternberg (2011)

It all proves nothing except that curmudgeons must curmudge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the exception of curmudgeons RIP Andy Rooney such as Oscar, Statler, and Waldorf, the Muppets are brimming with optimism from their pieholes to their puppetholes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You know, if they ever do a humanized version of The Muppet Show, you've just cast the two curmudgeons in the balcony who boo and hiss and contribute nothing to the show. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What will the curmudgeons of the next generation do? zyxw Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

[my neighbor] is a [curmudgeon]. ❋ Dave Hannar (2003)

That old [curmudgeon] called the cops on me for [knocking] on his door!!! That curmudgeon next door just gave me [the finger]! That curmudgeon over there accused me of breaking his window and says he gonna sue!!! ❋ Thedzone (2009)

[Roy] is a [curmudgeon], lets not [invite] him. ❋ Curmudgeony (2008)

damn [your old] ass [grandmama] is a [freaking] curmudgeon! ❋ Crazy68 (2009)

Michelle is a [curmudgeon], she got all [bent out of shape] when some [twitwad] wouldn't leave her door alone, and she yelled at them. Grandpa is becoming a old curmudgeon! ❋ Fauxrook (2011)

"My, that dude over there [moaning] about the state of the beer in this [pub] (his [local]) is a right old curmudgeon!" ❋ Braidwood Terrorist (2012)

[My friend] thinks he is a curmudgeon. [Reality] is that he's just in a [bad mood] most of the time. ❋ Cashew2 (2011)

An ex-CTO in [a dot] [com] in [London] (self-confessed) ❋ Ed (2004)

I wanted to hit [the bar], but my [roommate] wanted to go [to bed] early. What a curmudgeon. ❋ Anon1010101010101010101 (2011)

Grandpa has always been a [resembled] the [curmudgeon] [Bernie Sanders] when we tell him to comb his hair. ❋ Vikinghorde (2015)