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Codger: [7] An old-fashioned or eccentric old man. Coot : [ 10 ] A crazy and foolish old man; senile man. Cougar : [ 11 ] [ 12 ] An American slang term referring to older women who have romantic or sexual relations with younger men, although the term can also have a positive connotation depending on the situation or circumstance.
A man going by the name of Death Bredon, claiming to be a journalist, heads to an old chateau in France, which contains a laboratory where an aging Count is inventing a formula that may be used in chemical warfare. It has been well-publicized that Lord Peter Wimsey himself has been sent to buy this formula for the British government.
The son of Nanette (née Gamse) and Milwaukee department store owner, C. Ellis Goldstein, [2] Goldstein said he began watching NBA games as a 10-year-old. [3] At the age of 15, he was hired to keep game statistics by the Milwaukee Hawks. [3] "Once I did that and sat courtside for the games, I was totally hooked", he said.
One day, while walking to school, he meets an eccentric old man (Feng Xiaogang) in the park who accidentally pours a magic potion he has created down a drain. The next day, a huge tree has grown from a seedling in the drain. Kwong goes to the man's house and steals the potion, falling and breaking it as he tries to run away.
The cast includes the town's eccentric old man and story narrator Whittlin' Willy, Srini (Freddy's "Injun" sidekick – actually East Indian), Doc "Dizzy" Gillespie the drunken town doctor, the cafe owner Helen Back, otherwise known as Mom and her stereotypical Chinese chef Hopalong Singh (a reference to Hop Sing, the cook on Bonanza), the ...
Nina suggests that Adam asks her widowed father in the country for money to marry on. The eccentric old man comes up with a cheque for £1,000 and, in celebration, Adam takes Nina to a country hotel to claim her virginity. She claims not to have enjoyed it, and also points out to Adam that the signature on the cheque reads Charlie Chaplin.
There he became known as an eccentric old man, his spine bent double by arthritis, but he continued to paint, focusing now on such landscapes as the Sussex coast and the gardens of Stourhead in Wiltshire. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992 and named an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1994.
He meets an eccentric old man who invites him to a game of chess with the winner choosing the stakes. Characters such as Flann, also known as Gilly the Goat-Boy, the proud Lasarfhiona or Flame-of-Wine, the magical Spae-Woman, and the harsh farmer who employs Flann as a farmhand, contribute to making this story engaging and memorable.