# Cool or not cool **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 29, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110 "2015-05-29T13:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/281 "2019-10-09T13:47:23Z")
Dunno, never tried it. I’ll say not cool because too many products already have owl mascots. Iceland? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/282 "2019-10-09T14:08:18Z")
Both cool and cold. Martin Van Buren? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/283 "2019-10-09T17:22:37Z")
Very not cool. Those joints where you can hear all the hepcats spouting poetry, daddio. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/284 "2019-10-09T17:36:11Z")
Coolio, spoke to awoke. Clogging? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/285 "2019-10-09T19:10:19Z")
Not cool Irish step dance? ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/286 "2019-10-09T21:11:42Z")
It’s kinda like golf or auto racing: _doing_ it is really cool, and _watching_ it gets uncool after a few minutes. The fact of its existence remains cool, though. Lenny Bruce? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/287 "2019-10-09T22:19:11Z")
Cool. Without Lenny, we never would have had George Carlin, the movie “Lenny”, or the song “I Am I Said”. Oatmeal? ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/288 "2019-10-10T17:19:41Z")
Cool for breakfast when hot. Yummy in cookies with milk. No diabeetus says TV’s grampa. Man buns? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/289 "2019-10-10T17:40:32Z")
VERY uncool. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …Martin Van Buren? > [@Cardigan](#): > > Very not cool… Perhaps you’d like to reconsider: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAJ-8t8Hm8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAJ-8t8Hm8) That ad? ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/290 "2019-10-10T21:16:55Z")
That ad is cool. Bettie Page bangs? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/291 "2019-10-11T01:11:45Z")
On Bettie Page, cool. Anyone else, not so much. Andy Kaufman? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/292 "2019-10-11T12:31:24Z")
Cool in being severely uncool Kanye West? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/293 "2019-10-11T13:08:30Z")
The size of his fan base argues for “cool” The Eighteenth Amendment? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/294 "2019-10-11T13:46:38Z")
Definitely uncool to the max. Same Sex Marriage ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/295 "2019-10-11T18:08:49Z")
Cool by me. I’m in favor of all the love this world can come up with. “Psychotronic” so-bad-they’re-hilarious B-movies? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/296 "2019-10-11T19:52:45Z")
Can be cool, but not always. Depends on the film. William Henry Harrison? ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/297 "2019-10-12T02:44:33Z")
Not cool. Cold and wet, but not cool. (Seriously, dude? Keep it short, and wear a coat.) iTunes’s/Amazon Music’s method of alphabetizing your music? ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/298 "2019-10-12T19:06:38Z")
> [@mjmlabs](#): > > iTunes’s/Amazon Music’s method of alphabetizing your music? To clarify: Beatles, Beck, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen all under “B,” and Talking Heads, The Bangles, The Beatles and Tom Lehrer all under “T.” In case someone doesn’t deal with iTunes and/or Amazon Music. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/299 "2019-10-12T21:20:27Z")
Not cool at all, at least have the option to alphabetize by last name. Including “The” with T is just plain stupid. Also Ama-Tunes aren’t the only morons who do this. YouTube comedy teams? (Rhett and Link, Smosh, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110/300 "2019-10-14T15:31:25Z")
Not cool. John Tyler? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-or-not-cool/721110.md?page=16)