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“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” said Oldham, who is in his 40s.

“Teenagers tend to shut down. They see us as old fogies. I have to be very careful how I approach that.”

Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.

“It takes more than a little snow to stop these two old fogies,” Grandpa declares heartily.

In recent years, people worried about inflation were regarded as falling somewhere between fogies and cranks.