phelds podge

1) a pox of greed and heedless aquisition marked by
2) earth chancre, an open sore on the planet's crust which often runs bone deep.
3) a condition of decrepitude wrought of abuse and abandonment
4) extreme stultification which, when left unchecked, afflicts its victims with eustace tilley syndrome marked by stove pipe hats and chronic monocle dependency with their noses in the air as if they had not a care.

ever since phelds podge took hold i can't read barron's without my monocle