Nor is swing-dancing with old timers at the new Cotton Club.
He does a wonderful bit about the old-timer at Amazon who has been working there "since April".
The No 3 bestseller is quite the old-timer, at least compared to these snow queens and construction workers.
Lawrence Taylor, a Rebel Lures spokesman, said an old-timer at the company joked that at the height of the minnow boom, "we made enough lures to outfit every man, woman and child in the country".
It's the type of fable I imagine you'd hear from an old-timer at Cameron Indoor Stadium about Gene Banks, or from a student who happened to see Michael Jordan in a pickup game at North Carolina.
It was the manner of Ashcroft's action, as much as the substance, that offended old-timers at the Justice Department.
"The union wasn't going to leave the old-timers at home -- and why should they have?
"All the old-timers at the end of this road are gone," Mr. Taylor said with a rare smile.
But newbies seemed to outnumber old-timers at the architectural parking lot on Lincoln Road, where Ferrari and Peter M. Brant had a cocktail party to unveil the 458 Italia Spider.
On a recent Thursday afternoon, old-timers at Reif's, a neighborhood bar that opened in 1942, talked about the changes over beer.
Which is why some old-timers at the Fed preferred to operate behind a veil of secrecy, and let the actions of the New York branch speak for them.
