An illness developed by listening to too much Tally Hall and you begin to see the band in everyday life.
Example of developing Tally Hell syndrome: seeing red, yellow, blue, green and grey binder separators in one space. Reminding you of the band.
Example of mild Tally Hell syndrome: seeing black and white triangles that remind you of the album "good and evil"
Example of medium Tally Hell syndrome: seeing a sign on a school that says "NO WALL BALL" but you read it as "NO WHITE BALL" white ball is a song in the album "hawaii part II"
Example of extreme Tally Hell syndrome: YOU CANT EVEN LOOK AT A BANANA OR SEE BLACK OR WHITE WITHOUT THINKING OF IT YOU'VE GONE COMPLETELY MAD.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)