I cannot say 'Cool' anymore and it bothers me.

[oneighty]

I have been hanging around DU for a couple of years now. Here at DU I have learned to use 'Cool'a lot. I kinda like saying 'Cool'.

My wife does not like me saying 'Cool' and told me so. "180" she said; "You are way too old to be saying 'Cool' so please do not say it any more.

Is there an age limit to cool things?

"Cool"

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[ogradda]

1. i'm 44

and i still say cool.

[neebob]

5. Me, too!

[oneighty]

23. I am seventy

"Hey Tricia come see this really cool thread!"

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[ogradda]

48. hey my mom is 70

and she says cool!

[teach1st]

2. I say "cool" all the time...

..but I'm 51, so maybe it isn't cool. I still use "groovy," too, which isn't cool at all.

[Redneck Socialist]

21. I've been working hard to bring groovy back into regular use.

Alas, I've had minimal success though.

[oneighty]

26. Groovy is neat, cool too.

We had a Navy Doctor (Submarine Medical Officer) All the enlisted men called him 'Doctor Groovy'. He claimed not to like it but deep down inside I believe he thought it to be a 'Cool' name.

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[put out]

50. No, no, "groovy " is very cool.

It makes people blink, then grin. Or else they look confused, and you know who you're really talking to.

[Carla in Ca]

41. You are NOT to old to say cool...

you are too old to be told not to say it!

I'm 51 and my husband is cool, my Beagle is cool, my '57 Chevy is cool. The word became hip in the 50's and anyone around since then has every right to say it.

Your wife is not cool.

[msgadget]

3. I'm sure you're too cool to age out of it 180

[neebob]

4. I say "cool" all the time

If it wasn't cool, I'm pretty sure my 15-year-old would tell me.

[ogradda]

13. o lordy believe me

you'd hear about it :)

[SplashAuburn]

6. Cool

34 is the age limit.

[49jim]

7. I'm 55 and I never liked

"cool" too 50's for me...... I use neat!

[short bus president]

8. Don't sweat it, man. She's just not hep to it.

We know yer cool. ;-)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. If you have to ask ..........

.......... you're not cool.

;)

[GRLMGC]

10. Do what you want

It's cool.

[ogradda]

14. and remember

it's all good :)

[GRLMGC]

17. Crazy

I was gonna say that but I decided to go w/ cool to go with the theme of the thread. Go figure.

[ZenLefty]

11. So, if it was 63 degrees outside...

...and maybe there's a moderate breeze

...and maybe you're by a shallow streambed or something

How do you talk about the weather? :o

[slutticus]

12. sweet (nt)

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Tell her the alternative is "kickin' it old school" n/t

[Skittles]

16. balderdash

I will say COOL until time ends, Ed! :hi:

[oneighty]

32. Hey Skittles

You one 'Tough' lady. Whoooo Hooooo.

Tough=pretty and tender!

Ed

[kat21]

18. Cool is fine by me -

I use it all the time in e-mail replies to co-workers and when I'm around my 20 yr old son. No one's ever said anything to me. However, do you remember how we used to laugh when people would say, "that's boss" or "whoaa, that's really bitchin"?

[Kali]

36. I was going to say

bitchin'! forgot boss, heh heh also "trick"

[MuseRider]

19. An age limit to cool things?

I think not! I think you are WAY COOL!

[oneighty]

35. I guess I am sort of a

23 ski-doo kinda guy. Was your concert fun?

Sigh

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[MuseRider]

39. It was a blast

and I owe you some mail. I always kinda thought that 23 ski-doo was pretty "cool", but then I am a "far out" kinda gal.

[oneighty]

47. Music?

Thanks MuseRider.

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[babylonsister]

20. Well, you could start saying 'kewl'...

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. "Cool" is always "cool" to say.. as long you're "cool" but if you're not..

"cool" then you cant say "cool" but I'm sure you're "cool" so yes say "cool" and hey man... stay "cool"

:silly:

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. you are

way cool

[bsuz]

24. Find an alternative Mantra, like.....

" Are you with the Program?" or "Do you understand The New Process" or in the words of Kerouac, Hip?

[latebloomer]

27. "cool" never goes out of style

unlike "the cat's pajamas" or "far f*&#in out!"

[yellowdogintexas]

28. sorry, wife, there is no age limit to the use of cool

cool rules and will never die

[sandnsea]

29. Say bitchin'

That'll shut her up! :)

[jdots]

30. do you remember the album " How to Speak Hip "

It's time to speak in total beat-nic jargon minus the word " daddy-o " which is un-cool.

[Wilber_Stool]

31. Far out.......n/t

[helnwhls]

33. a wise person once taught me

any thing you can say,
any thing you can wear,
any thing you can ask for

with a straight face, you have every right to


so...cool.

[corporatemedia]

34. GROOVY thread!

[flyingfysh]

37. even in November?

Of course, in January most of us will be saying "Freezing!"

[FarLeftRage]

38. I'm kind of partial

to "Whoa Nelly!"

But "cool" is still cool.

No age limit at all.

:hi:

[da_chimperor]

40. Try saying 'dope' instead of cool. That'll also drive her nuts.

I'd say keep saying it if you want to, the wife can't make you do EVERYTHING she wants, right? ;) And nobody is ever too old to say cool.

[jukes]

42. 180

you're too cool *not* to say cool!

i'm 55; & i'm cool!

[Iris]

43. How old are y ou? and

do young people today even say cool? If not, I say anyone over 25 can keep the word for their own.

[oneighty]

44. Hey Dude or Dudett Iris

I am a 'Real Cool' seventy years old.

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[jukes]

46. that's

so cool!

[Iris]

53. Then you get to say whatever the hell you want to!

Especially if you're hanging out here!

:yourock:

[thinksmart]

45. Too Old to use a word?

Thats ridiculous

[nicolemrw]

49. i'm 42

and i say cool all the time.

of course, it embarrasses my daughter, but thats what teenagers are for.

[Arkana]

51. Meh

I've been watching the Simpsons for years, and I have Frinkian moments every now and then. Gu-hoy!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

52. Start saying

things like "pimpin" and "STOP HARSHIN ON MY BUZZ!" to your ol' lady.

She'll get it, oh yeah.

[pintobean]

54. Cool McCool

http://www.toontracker.com/realvid/coolmccool56k.ram
You need Real Player for the link.

[Fear Itself]

55. Just what is "cool"?

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, keen, 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.