How do you define American Cool?

[klingle]

Steve McQueen? Clint Eastwood? Self-confidence? Black jeans?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Gary Cooper was as cool as you can get.

 

[kbate]

Gary Cooper was as cool as you can get.

I don't think the term existed when Cooper was alive.

 

[klingle]

Gary Cooper was as cool as you can get.

Very true! Was he gay?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I don't think the term existed when Cooper was alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZil728hUy0&feature=related

Cooper invented cool.

 

[parodyluvr75]

I don't think the term existed when Cooper was alive.

Cool, slang for fashionable, was in use by 1933.

 

[pete]

danny trejo is central-american cool

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_YcAVzd0fzA/Twee5_ktUkI/AAAAAAAACuI/1XwYbVKoGCo/s1600/danny-trejo-tattoo-b7160.jpg

 

[VaticanAssassin]

James Dean, Steve McQueen, John Wayne are the first in my mind......Funny how I can think of no one current I would put any were near these guys.

 

[Wrong Element]

http://brownman.com/Images/miles/Miles-Week2.jpg

 

[coachdb18]

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/cafehangout/TheRealMarlboroManwk.jpg
The Marlboro Man

 

[Licia]

I will never forget the first time I heard Chuck Berry on the bus. If I blurt the number, no one will believe me.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Steve McQueen? Clint Eastwood? Self-confidence? Black jeans?

Bugs Bunny.

 

[eyer]

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/skins/screenshots/lge/28-Aug-08-4979-kool.jpg

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMhq1L0cJf0

 

[Ishmael]

James Dean, Steve McQueen, John Wayne are the first in my mind......Funny how I can think of no one current I would put any were near these guys.

And I'm 'old' school???

You learned well.

Ishmael

 

[Super-Surprise]

Steve McQueen? Clint Eastwood? Self-confidence? Black jeans?

klingle as the Billygoat....

Cool no, annoying yes.
http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video...pkey=6fb064ed-b35c-4a7a-9633-43ef805135b8||||

 

[doctor_insanus]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HO2NJGSvZGQ/TxJNZBvPCvI/AAAAAAAAFLY/llqAQHwgkN4/s640/casabl7.jpg

 

[alice27]

two words

Sam Elliot

 

[Comshaw]

Paul Newman, Richard Jaeckel


https://netflix.hs.llnwd.net/e1/images/9759/1089759.jpg


Comshaw

 

[fair_warning]

Paul Newman....


https://netflix.hs.llnwd.net/e1/images/9759/1089759.jpg


Comshaw

Oh yes, super cool.

 

[HAL_9000]

Steve McQueen? Clint Eastwood? Self-confidence? Black jeans?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg/250px-William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg

 

[doctor_insanus]

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