11 Reasons I'm Not Cool. Jump in and join the fun!

In My Humble Opinion
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Wow. Well, folks, I saw the thread title and was all ready and eager to post, but I have to say I now feel incredibly cool. Not that I’m trying to bantam-rooster myself or anything like that; I never wanted to be cool. But after reading these, I have to say that I, apparently and without any conscious intent on my part, am cool.

Hmm… So THIS is what it feels like to be cool.

And Skewbald, I am right with you on Ian Mackaye. I was never real hot for Fugazi, but “Minor Threat - Compleat Discography” is in my top five of all time. First heard the eponymous one when I was about thirteen (and it was brand-new), and it never let go.

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[li]I too am unashamedly fond of Duran Duran to this day.[/li][li]I eat vegetables. That’s pretty much all I eat. No meat since 1975.[/li][li]I don’t sleep at night. I have weird reverse insomnia.[/li][li]My favorite beverage? Water. (With a twist, please. Thank you.)[/li][li]I haven’t bought a new pair of shoes since 1998.[/li][li]I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since, uh, what year did LA Confidential come out?[/li][li]I too, compose songs for my dog, and serenade him daily.[/li][li]I only eat ice cream in the winter.[/li][li]I can speak Chinese (Really! Mandarin!) and dance like Astaire overseas.[/li][li]I have friends who get that reference.[/li][li]I can’t drive automatic cars. I get all confused, and I don’t know what to do with my extra hand and foot.[/li][/list=1]

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  1. I like to wear old lady underwear.
  2. I look forward to filling out a the daily crossword puzzle and always check my answers the following day.
  3. I do not report my low scores for Wordmojo on zone.msn.com.
  4. I play games on the “zone”.
  5. I tried to play “Myst” once and it was way too hard.
  6. I refuse to eat bread or drink milk on or after the Best By date.
  7. I feed my dogs better than I do myself.
  8. I’m getting wrinkles. See #9.
  9. I smoke too much.
  10. I love McDonalds hamburgers.
  11. I hate sleeping with the closet door open, but refuse to get out of bed and shut it if I’m already there.
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I have never seen an entire episode of The Simpsons.

That alone is, apparently, enough.

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  1. No plans tonight
  2. No plans tomorrow night
  3. No plans for the weekend
  4. No plans for any evenings after work next week
  5. No vacations planned
  6. No prospects for meeting anyone new on the horizon
  7. No social life outside of work and limited family contact
  8. Poor
  9. Sick
  10. Tired
  11. Lonely

And you say this is fun? Gee, thanks for depressing me guys :frowning:

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[li] I am a physicist.[/li][li] Perhaps you didn’t hear me: I am a physicist.[/li][li] The other physicists in my office think I’m the nerdy one. :eek: [/li][li] It’s Friday, 8:00, and I’m at home posting on a message board. 'Nuff said.[/li][li] I don’t smoke.[/li][li] I don’t drink.[/li][li] Except wine, but that doesn’t count.[/li][li] I don’t watch TV.[/li][li] Actually, I don’t have a TV.[/li][li] I dislike pretty much any form of modern music.[/li][li] I don’t complain about any of it.[/li][li] Which is odd, because I complain about everything else.[/li][li] I saw the latest Star Trek movie.[/li][li] With someone else.[/li][li] That would be my brother.[/li][li] When I say “with someone else,” I mean “with only one other person in the entire theater.” :smack: [/li][li] In my own defense, I cannot actually tell you what it was about, since I fell asleep.[/li][li] I have my very own personal smily for use in letters and the like.[/li][li] He has a name.[/li][li] He’s more popular than me.[/li][li] Did I mention that I’m a physicist? :D[/li][/list=1]

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Wow, how did I miss contributing to this thread the first time around?

  1. I have two parties to go to tonight, and all I want to do is rent a movie and drink a mug of hot apple cider.

  2. I asked my parents, in all seriousness, for balsamic vinegar for Christmas. And I got it.

  3. I know the names of all the episodes of ST:TNG.

  4. My bookshelf is organized not by author, not by title, but by publisher.

  5. I could quite contentedly play Risk: 2210 A.D. until the dawn of the next century.

  6. I kept love notes from my ex-girlfriend posted on my wall for six months after we broke up because I was too lazy to take them down.

  7. I check my e-mail four to six times a day.

  8. I think I have a phobia of locker rooms. If I ever have to change clothes in a place other than my bedroom, I do it in a locked bathroom stall.

  9. I have hung up on people who call me during Jeopardy.

  10. I spend my free time on campus walking around aimlessly, hoping to bump into girls that I have crushes on.

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Hey, TrishDish…what’s wrong with a RAV 4? I drive one, but I’m not putting it on my list!

But I do have a list!

  1. I went to a quilting fair with my honey today. (Two women said “You’re a brave man”)

  2. I majored in Botany for my B.A.

  3. I wear sweat pants around the house. Even when I’m too warm.

  4. I listen to classical music, and sometimes turn it up really loud if I’m by a carload of teenagers at a stop sign. But only if they look like they won’t shot me, and might laugh.

  5. I really like to go to museums.

  6. I am a published author on several papers on a genus of little known plants…I think about 10 people in the world care about them.

  7. I tie rubber chickens to the grill of my truck when driving on the interstate through farming country.

  8. Okra and brussels sprouts are two of my favorite foods.

  9. TV reality shows are terrible.

  10. I wear hawaiian print shirts way too often.

  11. I write fiction, and never show it to anyone.

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  1. I sat here for 45 minutes compiling my list.

  2. I have a stuffed grey wolf atop my computer monitor because my SN is ‘greywolf’.

  3. I watch “Coach” and “The Cosby Show” almost every night on Nick at Nite.

  4. I didn’t learn to drive a car until I was 18.

  5. I sometimes cry at stupidly sappy commercials. (like the one where the woman mails a card to the lonely woman living across the street just so she can have mail to open. sniff)

  6. My idea of a fun evening is curling up in bed under my mountain of blankets with a good book and reading for hours until I can’t keep my eyes open.

  7. I get waay too excited when I recieve a package in the mail from Book of the Month or Amazon.com.

  8. I love certain stupid movies and cannot resist watching them if I run across them on TV, including “Tremors” and “Bedazzled”. In fact, I could probably quote lines from “Bedazzled”.

  9. I sobbed at the end of Titanic all 8 times I saw it in the theater. (Yes, 8 times. I think I qualify for some sort of Uncool Award for that.)

  10. I hate the taste of beer and most alcohol and only drink Mike’s Hard Lemonade because it tastes like lemonade.

  11. I have a GIGANTIC schoolgirl crush on Jeff Corwin from Animal Planet. (I think it’s those tight T-shirts he always wears)

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  1. I’m on the school’s Academic Challenge team
  2. I don’t hate classical music
  3. I’m in the drama club
  4. I’ve dated, and, regrettably, done things of a sexual nature with a Boy Scout
  5. I read poetry
  6. I write poetry
  7. I hate MTV
  8. I’m not a cheerleader
  9. I’m good at chess
  10. I have a crush on Andrew Jackson
  11. I’ve never smoked, tripped, or gotten smashed
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I have to add something now that I didn’t say when I responded to this in June.

I am not cool because I consider Hamadryad to be my closest friend, even though she’s a big skank-ass.

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  1. I’ve had a cell phone for 2 years and only used 600 minutes. I get 800 minutes a month in my plan.

  2. I play classical music.

  3. I’ve had the same username/email address for 7 years. (Yeah, ‘just in case’. heh.)

  4. I’ve been a boy scout. (Yes, I’m a female … lived overseas, no girlscout troops anywhere, and I had two brothers. I got my totin’ chip and my pinewood derby car kicked butt!)

  5. I use ‘D’oh!’ frequently in casual speech.

  6. I actually enjoy the vast majority of Piers Anthony books. (And I own almost all of them.)

  7. It’s a friday night and I’m sitting here posting this.

  8. I used to own a Suzuki X-90.

  9. I traded in my '74 Monte Carlo to get it.

  10. I sometimes ask for help putting on my shoes.

  11. I find myself relating more and more to Hyatt from Excel Saga.

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Nearly 8 months after the OP…I’m not offering a list.

Sooooo not-cool.

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Wow. I looked on this when it was page one, and when I came back, it multiplied like tribble.

**I revel in my uncoolness it is all I have on a cold January day to keep me warm. **

  1. I have never read past the first chapter of Lord of the Rings.

  2. I don’t get the Cult of Star Trek.

  3. I don’t grasp the Cult of Lord of the Rings.

  4. I read nice and flouncy romance novels. (Which is a very scary cult unto itself.)

  5. I write romance.

  6. I am not afraid of snakes, bugs, spiders.

  7. I am not a drama queen. I am an attention whore There is a difference. :smiley:

  8. I am always one season behind in clothing style, if not more.

  9. I buy 95% of all my clothing, toys, kids stuff from resale, garage sales and hand me downs.

  10. I drive a gas-sucking-support-the-terrorist-with-every-fill-up-Econoline and I love it.

  11. I can drive a stick shift and jump start a car/tractor/lawnmower ( and yes, there is a difference in how you jump start from car to riding lawnmower. Anyone care to hazard a guess?)

  12. I asked for and received a rototiller for an anniversary present.

  13. I liked Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football Hey, quit throwing things

  14. I cannot watch Reality TV or MTV. It makes me cringe.

  15. I have CNN/FOX on all day ( when the kids let me) yet, care not one whit for politics.

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Holy Moly, this started in **June **.

Eeek.

I thought it started just a few days ago…
Where the hell have I been?

Ack.

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  1. I think all the reasons people list for not being cool make them sound very cool.

  2. I have never seen an episode of ‘Seinfeld’.

  3. I drive a 1995 Oldsmobile Delta 88.

  4. I have dogs, not cats.

  5. I like some of Celine Dion’s French CDs.

  6. I don’t stay up past 9:30 PM.

  7. My husband & I spent New Year’s Eve with our minister.

  8. I have never seen the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’.

  9. I’ve only played Diablo II in single player mode.

  10. I read such geeky science fiction that I am often embarrassed to read it in public, lest someone see the cover.

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  1. I have hard time relating to people 5 or more years younger than me. At the same time one of my best friends is 30 years my senior…

  2. Soccer is the only game to play ( or to watch for that matter)…

  3. I do like karaoke. Especially when drunk…

  4. I run 3 miles every day, even though smoke after done with running

  5. My idea of fun involves spending sunday afternoon at the book store

  6. I do love piano bars.

  7. Rock concerts started to annoy me…

  8. I don’t have any musical preferences and can listen to anything, while not remembering the names of singers or rock bands, don’t know the albom titels or even song titels for this matter

  9. I know more about world politics than i definitely should, while not having any idea what is happening on my back yard.

10 I love classic movies and don’t understand facination with Spider Man

11 I’m not even sure what my definition of cool is…

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12 I obviously have problems with grammar and spelling

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  1. I’m so obsessed with period costuming that I went to see Gangs of New York just to stare at the clothing worn in it.
  2. I’ve been sitting around all day, doing just about nothing for no real reason except that I was too lazy to leave the building today.
  3. I hate beer… it makes me really sick to drink it, but for some reason, wine and liquor doesn’t bother me, although I seldom drink it. I don’t smoke either.
  4. I’m not always up to date on world issues… except when my friend Sam decides to update me on things she thinks are important that are going on in the world.
  5. My concept of the perfect human is absolutely androgynous. A man with breasts, drag queen style, just might work.
  6. I thoroughly enjoy watching cheesy infomercials, especially the older ones for cookware sets that are hawked by silly British men.
  7. I occasionally reply to simple questions in the wrong language, or break into an accent that’s not my own without realizing it.
  8. I’m often caught “rockin’ the fuzzy slippers” outside of my dorm building… not during class, but when going places like the mall or the movie theatre.
  9. I often avoid the question of “what’s your racial heritage?” because people often peg me afterward as the “Icelandic girl” when in fact I’m only half Icelandic and don’t find it all that abnormal to be as such.
  10. If I could get away with it and NOT look silly, I’d probably wear a cloak whenever weather permits.
  11. I’d be perfectly content living under a couch cushion fort, provided it was big enough to house everything I needed.
  12. I LOVE colouring books. And sometimes I look at books only for the pictures.
  13. My team won Cranium the only time we played it mostly because of my spelling proficiency.
  14. I often avoid the bookstore because it’s like being in a candy shop or a toy store for me.
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1.) Pink fluffy slippers with gigantic blue flowers attached to them.

2.) I went to a highschool dance yesterday in full goth mode. and doc martens.

3.) I dye my hair ridiculously offensive colors

4.) I’m proud of my extensive vocabulary

5.) I love british humor. (Faulty Towers, etc…)

6.) Stella Adler is my hero.

7.) I wish I could be a computer geek.

8.) I love foreign films.

9.) I have conspiracy theories.

10.) I like to pretend I’m goth, but don’t really wear black alot. and I’m pretty cheery.

11.) I’m fat. (or Reubenesque, as my friend puts it)

12.) I think long hair (mid back and longer) on guys is terribly sexy.

13.) I meditate.

14.) I’m far too sarcastic.

15.) I too love to edit/write papers for the sheer joy of it.

Wow, I could go on…