# To Geeze or not to Geeze... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710 "2014-08-03T12:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/41 "2014-08-03T22:40:52Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Hey, who’s the skirt? Must be a Geezeen. Or would it be Geezine? Geezita? Geezette? Wall Street Geezette? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/42 "2014-08-03T22:46:01Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Must be a Geezeen. Or would it be Geezine? Geezita? Geezette? > > **Wall Street Geezette?** That’s what it sounds like. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/43 "2014-08-03T22:46:06Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Geezerama: Flocks of Early Birds at the local Denny’s. A “crypt” of geezers: A bunch of old farts standing around talking about their medical problems. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/44 "2014-08-03T22:50:58Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Must be a Geezeen. Or would it be Geezine? Geezita? Geezette? > > Wall Street Geezette? Did you forget what a Geezerdaddy is? “Geezerdaddy is a slang term for a man who offers to support a **much younger non-geezer** woman”. But my vote for a Geezerlady would be Geezerella. That Street Geezette sounds too hookerish. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/45 "2014-08-03T22:55:52Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Did you forget what a Geezerdaddy is? > > “Geezerdaddy is a slang term for a man who offers to support a **much younger non-geezer** woman”. > > But my vote for a Geezerlady would be Geezerella. That Street Geezette sounds too hookerish. I was afraid that connotation would be less friendly. But what about the Jane Fonda image for Geezerella? Or maybe Geezilla from the old Japanese monster movies? ---
**Author:** ![Weftover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Weftover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weftover)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/46 "2014-08-03T23:00:58Z")
Hot topic of discussion on a date (and incidentally the most depressing in retrospect): not sex, but analgesics. Sometimes geezerhood blows, and not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/47 "2014-08-03T23:08:35Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > You realize by the time we whip up a charter and by-laws and terms of usage and a glossary of “geezing” words and phrases it’s going to be time for Matlock? What’s a Matlock? By the time we get all that stuff done most of old geezers will have stumbled off the stage for the final time! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/48 "2014-08-03T23:20:42Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > That parade will look like the Monty Python 100 yard dash for people with no sense of direction. > > Past tense should be **geezed** , a la wheezed (a related term). > > We need to elect officers, or did we do that already? > > GET OFF MY LAWN! I hold for a strong declination: I geeze, I goze, I have gozen. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/49 "2014-08-03T23:33:56Z")
How about new lyrics for [On Moonlight Bay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJvMfQKl1nU) but with “We were geezing along…” instead? ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/50 "2014-08-03T23:47:07Z")
_Ahem_ I am a proud Geezerette… I spend my off days waiting for the bus at Wal~Mart,watching the people go by.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/51 "2014-08-03T23:52:37Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > _Ahem_ I am a proud Geezerette… I spend my off days waiting for the bus at Wal~Mart,watching the people go by.🆒 Sounds thrilling! Glad to see a non-geezer who enjoys geezing. We had been told that women don’t like to admit to geezing. Happy to see that’s an Urban Legend, at least as far as you’re concerned. Do you get as much thrill out of [People of Walmart](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/) as you do the real thing? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/52 "2014-08-04T00:08:32Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > What’s a Matlock? By the time we get all that stuff done most of old geezers will have stumbled off the stage for the final time! WHAT’S A MATLOCK? You, sir, are no geezer, you imposterous…I’m calling securit…Hey, elGringo, how the hell are you? Pull up a chair, golf is coming on the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/53 "2014-08-04T00:26:47Z")
What the hell is going on? Time for your old folks to get your pills! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/54 "2014-08-04T00:32:42Z")
Cheeze it! It’s Nurse Ratched! And is she ever PISSED! ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/55 "2014-08-04T00:44:37Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Sounds thrilling! Glad to see a non-geezer who enjoys geezing. We had been told that women don’t like to admit to geezing. Happy to see that’s an Urban Legend, at least as far as you’re concerned. > > Do you get as much thrill out of [People of Walmart](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/) as you do the real thing? No,People ofW~M is usually too mean spirited for me. We Ladies of Geezerette usually call it people watching or Catching up with Friends… I’ve had many people tell me"I thought you were dead!" or I still miss you at HEB" (HEB is a grocery store chain in Texas- - Worked there for 13 years. quit 6 years ago) ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/56 "2014-08-04T00:51:02Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > (HEB is a grocery store chain in Texas- - Worked there for 13 years. quit 6 years ago) Howard E. Butt! Great store - shopped at them all the time when I lived in Texas. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/57 "2014-08-04T01:00:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Geezerpalooza: a concert of covers of songs by Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Andrews Sisters, etc. It could include a mush pit. Or the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, Beach Boys. They’re all pushing geezerhood. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/58 "2014-08-04T01:07:59Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Or the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, Beach Boys. They’re all pushing geezerhood. I love concerts where the remaining member of Three Dog Night (or some such) crawls out onto the stage and tries to stand up, using his guitar as a crutch, while attempting to croak “who wants to _rock_?”. ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/59 "2014-08-04T01:36:19Z")
This reminds me of: [Ware Tetralogy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ware_Tetralogy) > [@](#): > > In that year, Anderson is a pheezer — a freaky geezer, Rucker’s depiction of elderly Baby Boomers — living in poverty in Florida ---
**Author:** ![Geezer1948](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Geezer1948](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geezer1948)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710/60 "2014-08-05T20:47:40Z")
See my username, which I have used for several years, partly to poke fun at myself for getting older, and partly to show I have a sense of humor about it. BTW, I think the adjective should be geezier, not geezer. Regard, Geezer1948 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-geeze-or-not-to-geeze/694710.md?page=4)