Noun : Grandfather is in his anecdotage.    From Dictionary.com. 

Disraeli called our "anecdotage," give us a break.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

But Doherty brought an old-fashioned Friars Club polish to rock-and-roll anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Papa] Reference

Via the divine Betsy Devine link at sidebar, this nice short-form history from Halley Suitt of blogging and anecdotage and women in the workplace and all that good stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference

To Will Ackerman, who made a tidy fortune peddling the glib chimes and bells of New Age music as founder of the Windham Hill label, all this undocumented anecdotage was a precious resource going to waste.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's 8 Million Stories] Reference

But the vogue for anecdotage owes much to the towering figure of Garrison Keillor, who has inspired numerous successors with the power of storytelling-the primal medium, the first entertainment most people ever knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's 8 Million Stories] Reference

One could see, even before he mentioned it, that he had gone to an ivy-clad public school in its anecdotage, with magnificent traditions, aristocratic associations, and no chemical laboratories, and proceeded thence to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference

Etonians, also in anecdotage, to pit their memories against his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916] Reference

And since I've reached my anecdotage, let me recount an anecdote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khanya] Reference

That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

The Englishman has usually a dignified dread of dropping into his "anecdotage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Leaders] Reference

QUOTATION: That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

The publishers will print it, the public will devour it, especially if it be anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference

All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

This fragment of anecdotage, whether true or false, is eminently characteristic of Lord Russell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference

Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lothair] Reference

Lee Simpson - is a mixture of confessional anecdotage, historical summary, cut-out home-made imagery and phallocentric fellowship.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It can be divided into three categories -- well, four categories, if you count one category for amiable but irrelevant anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1] Reference

I have a vast store of them laid up, wherewith to wile away the tedious years of my anecdotage -- whenever it shall please Heaven to make me old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference

They abound in miscellaneous knowledge and out-of-the-way reading, and they bristle with illustrations which have passed into the common anecdotage of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sydney Smith]

To write of one's own "adventures among books" may be to provide anecdotage more or less trivial, more or less futile, but, at least, it is to write historically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures Among Books] Reference

The only beneficiaries will be historians, who will find nuggets from the evidence with which to ornament books that would have been thinner without this emerging anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

An apt story well told is delicious, but there was sound philosophy in Mr. Pinto's view that "when a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

59That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

6403That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

We’re in the lucky position with Sweden where we don’t need to rely on anecdotage or interviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding to the opponents of “Swedish schools”] Reference

It was not mere anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

It seems that you are in your anecdotage. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circus World]

"But what if it had my body and your brains?" http://www. anecdotage.com/index. php? aid = 6851.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Palin Is Now The Top Concern Voters Have About McCain] Reference

I hate anecdotes, and I always get away when conversation falls into, what Pinto calls, its anecdotage. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lothair] Reference

There is a considerable Orwell anecdotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell "in Life"] Reference

'anecdotage,' as Horace Walpole calls it, "and granny laughed with the secret consciousness that her" anecdotes "were always sure of an appreciative audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference

"anecdotage" with the sons of toil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Positioning, squeeze, triangulation, Rennardism, campaigning anecdotage - all notably absent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The strange case of the perfectly normal people] Reference