The old codgers sit by the window, working on the first pints of the day.
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ANONYMOUS Nothing makes old codgers skeptical quite like young sprites skipping (blithely) down the aisle.
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"It's all yuppies and kids in strollers and all of that — and a few old codgers," Crowley, 82, said over a recent lunch.
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Besides, says Lynda Tabuya, an up-and-coming opposition politician, younger voters are fed up with old codgers' divisive politics and sense that they are not getting the benefits of development.
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Retrieved January 5, 2013 He has been described as a "banjo virtuoso"Staff. "Danny Barnes and Thee Old Codgers: Things I Done Wrong (Review)." Dirty Linen December 2001-January 2002. 84-85.
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Chipp was interested in opera and rowing, he was a member of the Leander Club and a regular spectator and steward at Henley Royal Regatta. He would also frequently attend 'Old Codgers' meetings of ex-editors at The Garrick, where he was a member. Chipp was also a beadle of St Bride's Church, Fleet Street.
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Early versions of the history of the Bardia Mural involved controversy. While it is commonly accepted that the mural was painted with paint, some versions stated that the material used to create the murals was Boot Black. There were also arguments over John's status when he painted the mural, indicating him as a prisoner of war or even under a death sentence. These three questions were referred to in a letter to the "Old Codgers" section of the Daily Mirror.
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His portrayal was so good, he became stereotyped and played mostly likable old codgers for the rest of his life. Bevans played the neighbour of Gregory Peck in The Yearling and the gatekeeper in Harvey (1950). However, he did occasionally play against type, for example as a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). He also made some television appearances, including the role of murderer Captain Hugo in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Demure Defendant" and as Pete in The Twilight Zone episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" (1962).
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During the same period he was playing loving father figures or charming old codgers in classic films like National Velvet and Lassie Come Home, he also turned in a well-received performance as Commander Beach, the tormented presumptive grandfather in Lewis Allen's The Uninvited (1944). Undoubtedly, however, Crisp's most memorable role was as the taciturn but loving father in How Green Was My Valley (1941) directed by John Ford. The film received ten Oscar nominations, winning five, including Best Picture, with Crisp winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1942.
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Danny Barnes on stage at Mackey's Hideout in McHenry, Illinois on October 1, 2016. In 2000 Barnes, now living in Washington State, dissolved the Bad Livers and founded a new band, Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers, with bassist Keith Lowe and violinist Jon Parry. This band released only a single album, 2001's Things I Done Wrong, which was produced by avant-garde jazz composer and pianist Wayne Horvitz (a fellow Seattle resident). 2002 saw Barnes working with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell; Frisell was moving towards incorporating more "American"—country and bluegrass—influences into his playing, and he wanted Barnes to give him lessons in that direction.
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Concerning the inspiration for the novel, in an interview given to the San Diego Weekly Reader the author said: > I had my seventieth birthday two summers ago, and I began thinking about > things people write when they get to be old codgers. I thought about > Shakespeare. I thought about how at the end of his life he wrote these > wonderful sort of fairy tale plays like The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale, > and everything ends up wonderfully, and it’s sort of too good not to be > true. I cast about for something like that kind of fairy tale, and something > drew me to the Book of Tobit, which I’d read before, and I’d decided it was > not my thing.
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Saizuchi is knocked unconscious when Fuji's left arm falls on him upon being defeated by Hiko Seijūrō. Pardoned for his crimes, Saizuchi uses his gifts of persuasion for the Foreign Ministry in secret negotiations. The overall model for Saizuchi is a villainous elf who tricks the giant in what Watsuki was told is a Finnish folktale called "Frost Giant"; he combined that with an "image of a giant-robot pilot." Originally Watsuki planned for Okina to fight Saizuchi, but he cut the concept because he wanted to maintain the balance of the story and because his "inner story- editor" asked him if anyone would really like to see "two old codgers" fight each other.
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