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My girlfriend, I suspect, knows not from cool. There are things that are cool, just by their very nature. What is assembled here is a list of things that one of us thinks is cool and the other disagrees. No what's what, just the list of cool for you all to agree or disagree.

Also, feel free to add points of contention of cool or not between you and your 'other'.

Batman is cool.

Princess Bride is cool.

Muscle cars are cool.

Dune buggies are uncool because you can break all of your bones on them.

Sugargliders are uncool because my friend has one and all it does is sleep and smell bad.

Three inch goattees are uncool because winos have them.

Hammond B3 Organs are uncool because they're pale imitations to a full, awesome pipe organ.

Pork Pie hats are cool.

Batman is cool.

Princess Bride is cool.

Muscle cars are cool.

I agree only with Batman.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/avatars/ivoted.gif for every option....

No clue what sugar gliders are, and I didn't vote on the goatee, 'cause some people can pull it off and others can't. It's neither cool or uncool on its own. :p

No clue what sugar gliders are, and I didn't vote on the goatee, 'cause some people can pull it off and others can't. It's neither cool or uncool on its own. :p

Sugar gliders are a type of flying squirrel, IIRC.

Okay, by Dune Buggy, I mean Manx Dune buggies, like so-
http://i.pbase.com/t6/85/424385/4/79098621.mzdwVLY7.jpg
http://www.texasmanxclub.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=847&g2_serialNumber=2

Pork Pie Hats, of course, are these-
http://www.billthehatter.com/usrimage/ch07.jpg

Sugar gliders are these little beggars-
http://www.gotpetsonline.com/pictures-gallery/exotic-pictures-breeders-babies/sugar-glider-pictures-breeders-babies/pictures/sugar-glider-0019.jpg

The Hammond B3 is, well, it's an organ. Look it up.

My three inch goatee rules you all, you just don't know.

My ex-girlfriend thinks no-contact orders are cool.



She has no taste.

I voted that Sugar Gliders are uncool because one bit me recently and it hurt really bad.

I also voted that the Hammond was uncool because I grew up with one in my fucking living room and was forced to play it an hour a day for like 3 years.

Filk is cool.

Anti-folk is also cool.

Sugar Gliders are cool, they hone your dodging skills when they try to pull a face hugger on you.

Me: Woody Allen = cool
Other: Nay

Me: Canary Wharf = cool
Other: Nay

Me: My boxer shorts on her = sexy
Other: Nay

I think this thread is going to lead to a divorce. Thanks a lot Ctoan

Most of these depend on the situation -- especially the Hammond B3. Cool under some hands, decidedly not cool under others.

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1950's bebop jazz musicians: wayyy cool.
everything else pales in comparison.

To test whether something is cool, ask yourself: "Would Miles Davis, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?" If the answer is yes, then it's cool.
If you want to know if it's uber-cool then the question needs to phrased thusly: "Would Theolonius Monk, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?"

That's all you need to know.

1950's bebop jazz musicians: wayyy cool.
everything else pales in comparison.

To test whether something is cool, ask yourself: "Would Miles Davis, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?" If the answer is yes, then it's cool.
If you want to know if it's uber-cool then the question needs to phrased thusly: "Would Theolonius Monk, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?"

That's all you need to know.

This :p

As Intangelon said, the Hammond can be good when played by some.

I'll have to go with Not Cool for all of them. Sugar Gliders are cutish on first glance but they smell and make creepy noises and eat mealworms. Messily. ><

1950's bebop jazz musicians: wayyy cool.
everything else pales in comparison.

To test whether something is cool, ask yourself: "Would Miles Davis, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?" If the answer is yes, then it's cool.
If you want to know if it's uber-cool then the question needs to phrased thusly: "Would Theolonius Monk, were he still alive, use/wear/eat/ride/play with it?"

That's all you need to know.
You sir, are my new hero. Don't forget John Coltraine.

Anyway, dune buggy's are cool, sugar gliders are VERY cool (super special awesome) and pork pie hats are only cool depending on the person who wears them, although I prefer Frank Sinatra like hats.

Hammond B3 Organs are uncool because they're pale imitations to a full, awesome pipe organ.

Are you kidding? B3s are extremely cool. Listen to Jon Lord soloing on a B3. Could you do that on a pipe organ, I think not.

Most of these depend on the situation -- especially the Hammond B3. Cool under some hands, decidedly not cool under others.

But that's what makes something soo cool, it only works with cool people. Seriously though, the sound Hammond B3 organ makes when a really good soulful musician is playing it is beyond cool.

dune buggy: cool.

pork pie hat: not so cool, there are cooler hats.

sugar gliders: cool, but then i've never encountered one.

hammond organ: i like a lot of music that uses one so, cool.

your goatee: cool, but i'm catching up :p where are you measuring from??

My girlfriend, I suspect, knows not from cool. There are things that are cool, just by their very nature. What is assembled here is a list of things that one of us thinks is cool and the other disagrees. No what's what, just the list of cool for you all to agree or disagree.

Also, feel free to add points of contention of cool or not between you and your 'other'.

Man, great idea to post this on the forum! You are getting RE-SULTS!

You sir, are my new hero. Don't forget John Coltraine.

I was thinking of using John Coltrane but the problem there is so many other names start springing up (Cannonball, Charlie Parker, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck...) that in the end I just went for the name everyone would know and then ended with the extreme of coolness.

Thelonious Sphere Monk. Even his name is cool.

The dune buggy is vindicated!!! That's really what started this whole thing.

I defer in most cases to the Thelonious Monk standard. One need only watch A Great Day in Harlem to know the truth of it. When you show up and make the largest gathering of jazz musicians to date nervous, you know you're fucking cool.

This alone vindicates my Pork Pie Hat, but the nail is The Prez, Mr. Lester Young. As I came into jazz playing in a band essentially fashioned after Count Basie's (there could be worse models...I don't know of better ones...) I was in 'The President's' seat. I had a bit of the same problems as him, too-our brass was loud and sometimes it was hard to hear myself. I never adopted the holding my sax out to the side, but I did, for homage's sake, get a pork pie hat. I never wore it in performance, but I do have it and occasionally wear it when I need to look respectable.

I don't remember what the rest of the results were. My beard rules, you all just don't know...

Borsalino: cool
Shades: generally uncool
Smoking a pipe: cool
Red wine: cool (but not cooler than the place where you're drinking, of course ;) )
Boozing tequila: uncool
Como silk ties: cool
Pink Como silk ties: uncool
Blue suit: cool
Black suit: uncool
Pinstriped suit: uncool^3
Bluetooth thingies dangling from your ear: uncool
Not having a cell phone: cool
Windows Vista: a tragedy
C++: cool
SUV: uncool