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@Burgaz
I've always been 'uncool'.
I was just listening to that song!
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[ This Message was edited by: scotsboyuk on 2004-12-21 20:58 ]
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Posted: 2004-12-21 21:57:52
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extracts from
dictionary.com 
cool
adj.
cool·er, cool·est
1. Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold: fresh, cool water; a cool autumn evening.
2. Giving or suggesting relief from heat: a cool breeze; a cool blouse.
3. Marked by calm self-control: a cool negotiator.
4. Marked by indifference, disdain, or dislike; unfriendly or unresponsive: a cool greeting; was cool to the idea of higher taxes.
5. Of, relating to, or characteristic of colors, such as blue and green, that produce the impression of coolness.
6. [u]Slang.[/u] Excellent; first-rate: has a cool sports car; had a cool time at the party.
Acceptable; satisfactory: It's cool if you don't want to talk about it.
7. [u]Slang.[/u] Entire; full: worth a cool million.
adv.
Informal. In a casual manner; nonchalantly: play it cool.
v.
cooled, cool·ing, cools
v. tr.
To make less warm.
To make less ardent, intense, or zealous: problems that soon cooled my enthusiasm for the project.
Physics. To reduce the molecular or kinetic energy of (an object).
v. intr.
To become less warm: took a dip to cool off.
To become calmer: needed time for tempers to cool.
n.
A cool place, part, or time: the cool of early morning.
The state or quality of being cool.
Composure; poise: “Our release marked a victory. The nation had kept its cool” (Moorhead Kennedy).
Idioms:
cool it [u]Slang [/b][/u]
To calm down; relax.
To stop doing something.
cool (one's) heels [u]Informal [/i][/u]
To wait or be kept waiting.
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Middle English cole, from Old English cl. See gel- in Indo-European Roots.
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coolish adj.
coolly adv.
coolness n.
Synonyms: cool, composed, collected, unruffled, nonchalant, imperturbable, detached
These adjectives indicate absence of excitement or discomposure in a person, especially in times of stress. Cool usually implies merely a high degree of self-control, but it may also indicate aloofness: “Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience” (B.H. Liddell Hart). “An honest hater is often a better fellow than a cool friend” (John Stuart Blackie). Composed implies serenity arising from self-discipline: The dancer was composed as she prepared for her recital. Collected suggests self-possession: The witness remained collected throughout the questioning. Unruffled emphasizes calm despite circumstances that might elicit agitation: “with contented mind and unruffled spirit” (Anthony Trollope). Nonchalant describes a casual manner that may suggest, sometimes misleadingly, a lack of interest or concern: He reacted to the news in a nonchalant manner. Imperturbable stresses unshakable calmness usually considered as an inherent trait: “A man... /Cool, and quite English, imperturbable” (Byron). Detached implies aloofness resulting either from lack of active concern or from resistance to emotional involvement: He sat through the service with a detached air. See also synonyms at cold
Our Living Language
The usage of cool as a general positive epithet or interjection has been part and parcel of English slang since World War II, and has even been borrowed into other languages, such as French and German. Originally this sense is a development from a Black English usage meaning “excellent, superlative,” first recorded in written English in the early 1930s. Jazz musicians who used the term are responsible for its popularization during the 1940s. As a slang word expressing generally positive sentiment, it has stayed current (and cool) far longer than most such words. One of the main characteristics of slang is the continual renewal of its vocabulary and storehouse of expressions: in order for slang to stay slangy, it has to have a feeling of novelty. Slang expressions meaning the same thing as cool, like bully, capital, hot, groovy, hep, crazy, nervous, far-out, rad, and tubular have for the most part not had the staying power or continued universal appeal of cool. In general there is no intrinsic reason why one word stays alive and others get consigned to the scrapheap of linguistic history; slang terms are like fashion designs, constantly changing and never “in” for long. The jury is still out on how long newer expressions of approval such as def and phat will survive.
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fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
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and for the geeks...
1. Concurrent Object-Oriented Language.
2. CLIPS Object-Oriented Language?
3. A C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments. COOL
contains a set of containers like Vectors, List, Hash_Table,
etc. It uses a shallow hierarchy with no common base class.
The functionality is close to Common Lisp data structures
(like libg++). The template syntax is very close to Cfront3.x
and g++2.x. Can build shared libraries on Suns.
JCOOL's main difference from COOL and GECOOL is that it uses
real C++ templates instead of a similar syntax that is
preprocessed by a special 'cpp' distributed with COOL and
GECOOL.
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See my wedding photos! - NEW PICS AVAILABLE![ This Message was edited by: gelfen on 2004-12-22 02:39 ]
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Posted: 2004-12-22 03:37:53
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Gelfen, that is so uncool that you looked up cool in the dictionary...
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Posted: 2004-12-22 10:25:51
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whats this all about?
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Posted: 2004-12-22 10:43:50
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Its all about being cool enough to mae it onto the esato Cool Wall
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Posted: 2004-12-22 17:53:08
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More reasons for me to be on the 'uncool' section of the 'cool wall':
-I've never owned a 'hoodie' top
-I think RnB music is crap, overproduced overhyped slickly marketed rubbish
-I sometimes listed to BBC Radio 4 (UK nationwide 'talky' channel, often has interesting documentaries, current affairs stuff, and the odd comedy on), and have even caught myself listening to Classic FM!
-I barely drink alcohol - I prefer to use my brain, not pickle it in alcohol, as far too many people seem to prefer doing
-I don't know what half of the current crop of 'yoof' words, nicknames, slang terms etc. are, and don't know the street slang names for most illegal drugs
I've also got to stop myself ranting about some of these things, they also annoy me.... but that's for the 'gaaaaaah! I hate that' thread!
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Posted: 2004-12-22 18:35:55
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@Sam
I like CLassic FM too, is that regarded as 'uncool'? Most of the things I like doing are no doubt seen as being 'uncool' e.g. smoking cigars; listening to classical music; summering somewhere smart; drinking scotch; walking my dogs in the hills, etc. I really don't give a jot, I rather like being 'uncool' as being 'cool' seems more a case of trying to 'fit in with the masses'. Huzzah for individuality I say!
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Posted: 2004-12-22 20:26:07
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It's more fun to be uncool - you're not constrained by what a magazine or your favourite 'celebrity' says to wear or do, you just do whatever the hell you want!
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Posted: 2004-12-22 20:45:44
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Being cool has nothing to do with hiphop or hoodies, or fitting in! Thats not what cool is about, cool is about...being cool!
**nb: radio 4 is not cool**
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Posted: 2004-12-22 20:58:00
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radio 4 can be cool surely look at some of the great comedy that has come from it on the hour (on tv the day today), mary whitehouse experience. i may at the this point be showing my age
[ This Message was edited by: slattery69 on 2004-12-22 20:17 ]
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Posted: 2004-12-22 21:14:23
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