2 definitions by saint_yossarian
Used in Ireland.
An emotional void of pointlessness filling a Sunday afternoon, heightened by the inevitability of the coming Monday; May or may not be made worse by the presence of a hangover; Synonymous with Sunday Scaries and/or long dark teatime of the soul.
Named after "Glenroe", an Irish telenovela that ran from 1983 to 2001, aired on Sundays at 20:30, and was, for many, the harbinger of the impending Monday.
An emotional void of pointlessness filling a Sunday afternoon, heightened by the inevitability of the coming Monday; May or may not be made worse by the presence of a hangover; Synonymous with Sunday Scaries and/or long dark teatime of the soul.
Named after "Glenroe", an Irish telenovela that ran from 1983 to 2001, aired on Sundays at 20:30, and was, for many, the harbinger of the impending Monday.
by saint_yossarian April 15, 2019
A sensation of an emotional void and pointlessness filling a Sunday afternoon, and the sensation of the impending Monday.
Coined by Douglas Adams in his 1982 book "Life, the Universe and Everything", and serving as the title for another of his books in 1988.
Synonymous with The Glenroes, and when exacerbated by a hangover - with the Sunday Scaries.
Coined by Douglas Adams in his 1982 book "Life, the Universe and Everything", and serving as the title for another of his books in 1988.
Synonymous with The Glenroes, and when exacerbated by a hangover - with the Sunday Scaries.
"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul."
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything.
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything.
by saint_yossarian April 15, 2019