So through with COOL!

[Forgotten Man]

Yep, I'm finished with the word COOL!

I'm going to try and rid my self of that term! I'm replacing it with "swell" "Keen" or "super"! I see what people today consider COOL and it ain't pretty! The most ugly, hideous, ridicules, obnoxious, stupid, dirty, nasty things are considered COOL today!

So, who's with me in this purging?

 

[Carlisle Blues]

I think what you are doing is cool. Count me in

 

[Tomasso]

Sorry, I've been using it since the 60's. [huh]


Now, if you want to eradicate awesome, I'm all aboard.

 

[ortega76]

I still use cool. I occasionally use awesome. Lately it's been "sweet action, jackson".

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I am giving up neither COOL nor AWESOME. Awesome is my generation's word, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands! lol However eradicating misused and misplaced "LIKEs" works fine for me.

 

[Tomasso]

 

[Feraud]

Sweet chart!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't mind "Awesome" if it's referring to something that truly is -- "Wow, look at that GIANT RADIOACTIVE LIZARD DEVOURING CLEVELAND!" It's AWESOME!" Entirely appropriate in that setting. But "Oooh, awesome, you got new shoelaces" or whatever makes my head hurt.

What I'd like to purge is "Dood," especially when used thusly:

Me: Have you boiled that popcorn kettle yet?

Concession Kid: Dood, I'm on it.

 

[Sefton]

As they say in the future (via 1973, "Sleeper") : "That's so Keane...no,no, it's better than Keane... it's Cugat!"

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

A capital idea - in theory. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to put it in practice.

G'luck!

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Def??

Where's "Far Out", "Fat" (Phatt?), and "Hot"?

That chart's got gaps man. Uncool.

 

[Dinerman]

That chart's got gaps man. Uncool.

Word.

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

Can't see it tho. NM, now I can. I'm not sure that's an accurate timeline.

 

[Paisley]

Yeah, where's "stoked"?

 

[dhermann1]

What tickles me is how on the west side of the pond it's been "awesome" for some odd years now, in the UK it's been "brilliant".
I'd like to fill in some of the blanks, however. Can we back track further?
Bertie Wooster, I believe, used the term "spiffing" incessantly.
And how far back does "keen" go?
Film buffs: what words do the adolescents in golden age movies use when they want to be obnoxious?

 

[Senator Jack]

There they go listing phat in the OED and already it needs to be marked archaic.

 

[mike]

HA!

I had no idea dope was the new tight!

I bet bruce campbell is solely responsible for that chart's groovy reemergence in 2000.


lol

 

[Sefton]

I had no idea dope was the new tight!

I bet bruce campbell is solely responsible for that chart's groovy reemergence in 2000.


lol

That and the phrase "Listen up all you medieval screwheads!" (this doesn't go over too well at Renaissance fairs, though).

 

[BellyTank]

Too Cool for Old School.
Huh?

B
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[Fletch]

I don't mind "Awesome" if it's referring to something that truly is -- "Wow, look at that GIANT RADIOACTIVE LIZARD DEVOURING CLEVELAND!" It's AWESOME!" Entirely appropriate in that setting. But "Oooh, awesome, you got new shoelaces" or whatever makes my head hurt.

What I'd like to purge is "Dood," especially when used thusly:

Me: Have you boiled that popcorn kettle yet?

Concession Kid: Dood, I'm on it.

If he doesn't notice you're a chyk and not a dood, he has problems a greater vocabulary can't possibly solve.