Uncle Rico Syndrome

Uncle Rico Syndrome or URS is when a person frequently refers to the "Glory days" or an earlier time when there life was better and/or different.

Origin - "Uncle Rico" a character from the film Napoleon Dynamite was obsessed with time travel so that he could return to 1984 when he was a star quarterback and play for his high school football team.

- The TV character "Al Bundy" suffers from Uncle Rico Syndrome; as he constantly reminisced about the "big football game" and how if he had done one thing differently he would have gone pro instead of marrying Peg.

- "Those girls totally have URS (Uncle Rico Syndrome), they keep talking about how their high school locker was always such a mess, which was 17 years ago."

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