Cool

[Dillinger]

What is cool?

It seems to me that so many people try so HARD to be cool - and that's about as un-cool as you can get. My advice is to just be yourself - unless, of course, you're an asshole... *grin*

So what do you think is cool?

I remember when Happy Days first came on the air. Fonzie WAS cool. It might seem like a joke now but he sure seemed cool to a lot of people then. Not so cool anymore?

Who on Lit do you think is cool? What celebrity do you think is cool? Are there any cool politicians? Writers? Poets? People you know?

You know who was cool? Jack Keroac. "On The Road" was the definition of cool in its time. You know why he was so cool - because he didn't know it, didn't care, just did it.

What is cool?

 

[lilfrk]

What Is Cool

Not Me

 

[Guest]

I think you're pretty cool. *smile*

 

[Dillinger]

Don't know why I posted as unregistered - but that was me.

 

[lilfrk]

You do?

awww...thank you.

 

[Dillinger]

Sure do. *smile*

 

[Laurel]

Cool:

- Doctors Without Borders and others who genuinely care about people outside of their family

- People who make a traffic mistake, then do the little "I'm sorry" wave instead of flipping YOU off

- lowcut pants (for now - who knows next year...)

- REAL confidence, the kind that enables a person to stand up for themselves without stepping on others to do it

- Happy couples over the age of 50

- Storytellers

- Writers

- Humility

- People who don't take anything (including themselves) too seriously (see 'Humility' & 'REAL confidence')

- Friends who stand by you

- Funny, smart people

 

[Starfish]

Siren stopping by.

 

[*Lazer*]

Cool is what happens when you are just being and liking yourself. It is not trendy or popular but rather timeless. Some good examples are babies and little kids.

 

[lavender]

 

[Pyper]

Is this the cool thread I've been hearing so much about?




(I don't think you're supposed to GET Buddhism. )

 

[Dillinger]

Hey - I fucked Moxie once... she WAS cool!

 

[lavender]

 

[Guest]

Laurel's actually pretty cool but I don't tell her that because it would just go to her head.

 

[Dillinger]

So much for my long response into the philosophy of cool. It all went to shit for one-liners.

I'm just too fucking verbose. Someday I'll learn the art of succinct writing. Someday...I can dream write?

And how was Moxie, Dilly? Tell us all the dirty little details.

I will make a long post tomorrow to make up for my incredibly witty one liner tonight... *lol*

Moxie was pretty fine but I bet you'd be finer...

 

[Pyper]

No, really, I don't think anyone is supposed to get Buddhism. It's all stories like:

A young man journey to the top of a tall mountain to seek the wisdom of a wise old man.

"Wise master," he said, "I have travelled many miles to receive your wise wisdom. Please tell me, how can I reach Nirvana?"

"Young caterpillar," the wise old wise master said, "A butterfly flies free on the western wind, but only a fish may swim in the sea."



You see? It doesn't make any sense. My theory is that you think so hard about these incomprehensible stories that you fry your brain, and reach Nirvana because you are now a drooling idiot.


(No offense to any Buddhists. )

 

[Dillinger]

Is this the cool thread I've been hearing so much about?

(I don't think you're supposed to GET Buddhism. )

Actually its the next thread over...

As far as Buddhism goes... well as Crowley might say... 23 SKIDDOO!!! (Get OUT!)

 

[Dillinger]

*sitting here drooling...*

BTW Pyper - loved your stories... very succinct, clear and understandable.

 

[RisiaSkye]

People who call their parents without making them feel bad about it are cool.

People who can use multi-syllable words without breaking their arms patting themselves on the back are cool. (don't let it go to your heads, lav., harold, chef, dill, laurel, et al)

People who send feedback are cool. (hint, hint)

People who don't give a fuck what you or I think are cool.

I agree that Johnny Depp's cool. John Malkovich is cool. Angelina Jolie is cool, if psycho. Ed Wood was cool. Dorothy Parker was cool.

Kerouac, however, was not cool. He was a bum, a racist, and a boring ass writer.

Ginsburg, on the other hand, was cool.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Are road trips where you go somewhere just because you've never been there before?
I dig that, hell I do it

I'd like to think I'm cool but what it is I dont really know.

the fonz is still cool

David Bowie is cool.

Does his own thing, takes no shit, lives his life the way he wants to and does what he believes in

 

[Svedish_Chef]

People who call their parents without making them feel bad about it are cool.

People who can use multi-syllable words without breaking their arms patting themselves on the back are cool. (don't let it go to your heads, lav., harold, chef, dill, laurel, et al)

People who send feedback are cool. (hint, hint)

People who don't give a fuck what you or I think are cool.

Cool!

 

[RisiaSkye]

the fonz is still cool

Definitely. How many 5'6" jewish guys have the balls to play an Italian biker and act like they mean it? Ehhhh...
Besides, no one could kickstart a jukebox like the Fonz.

 

[Dillinger]

Kewl!

 

[Pyper]

*sitting here drooling...*

BTW Pyper - loved your stories... very succinct, clear and understandable.

Really? Want another? Okay, here goes.


An old blind priest decided to go for a walk one night. But his young students would not hear of it.

"Master," they said, "Please, take this lantern with you. It is not safe out there in the dark."

"Young winged insects," the wise old man said, "What need have I for light from a lantern, when the light I have burns from within?"


You like it? I just make these things up of the top of my head. I think I should become a priest.

 

[Dillinger]

It is the same as saying that 20 video tapes can take up the same amount of space as a dung beetle YET it is not the same!