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- Postalgia (noun) : 1. a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for a projected future that never was; i.e. as promised by Disneyland and science fiction of the 1950's.
2. a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for a future era by a time-traveller in the past.
pos·tal·gic /-jik/ adjective or noun
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- "Roxanne sat glumly at the back of the bus, consumed by postalgia for a time where the colour of her skin didn't define her station in life."
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"Mike flipped through the yellowed pages of Startling Stories, grimly postalgic for the gleaming era of art-deco skyscrapers and rocket-cars that never arrived."
—Mark Shainblum, "Angloman" comic strip in the Montreal Gazette, Circa 1998
- Submitted by: Mark Shainblum from Canada on Mar. 10, 2006 12:26
- postally challenged (adjective) : Being unwilling, unable or unmotivated to get mail to the post office or mailbox to be delivered
- He was so postally challenged that it took 3 notices due and a threat to send his account to collection before he was motivated to mail a cheque.
- Submitted by: Barb Strachan from Canada on Mar. 13, 2007 09:20
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