Levy, age 52 and a codger by Web standards, grew up collecting baseball autographs at spring training camps in Florida.

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She proudly talks about how hard it was to be a geek when she was growing up with all the tact of a codger trying to get kids off her lawn.

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The motion for the Humble Address is proposed by a senior and seconded by a junior government MP - "a genial old codger on the way out, and an oily young man on the make" as the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell put it, when he was the junior MP in question.

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