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To: nickcarraway

Define cool and then make the list.

Amazing musicians who seem to be blessed with a natural affinity? People with an infectious charisma who entertain and charm with such joy?

Or, as is often the definition of cool, people who are so hardened inside that they literally do not care - about other’s opinions of them, about social norms, etc. - as much as others? Caring less does often equal cool. And it’s not necessarily a good thing. The Fonzie character at first was this kind of cool. No skills, no talent or charisma. Just hard enough not to care, which weaker people sometimes gravitate towards.


54 posted on 04/04/2014 5:57:19 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
To me, being cool means:

1. Being comfortable in your own skin.
2. Excelling at something without seeming to try too hard; naturalness.
3. Unpretentiousness.
4. Wit, including self-deprecating wit.
5. Understated intelligence; intelligence that doesn't try to show off.
59 posted on 04/04/2014 6:18:40 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Yaelle

Personally, all my life I had an aversion to “cool.” Not that I gravitated towards its opposite (geekdom, or whatever) at all, either. Not in the least. It’s just that I always observed that those who seemed to most value “coolness” were invariably the most vapid people around.

Always sought out individuality and strength of character. Even when I was actually quite young.


70 posted on 04/04/2014 7:15:54 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Yaelle

“Come on, Yolanda, what’s Fonzie like?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPN_gkj_gk


74 posted on 04/04/2014 7:32:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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