# Who are the cool kids here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 20, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015 "2012-08-20T01:12:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/41 "2012-08-20T18:21:06Z")

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> [@Martini\_Enfield](#):
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> Now now, everyone knows the only sure way to judge coolness is with a patented Hubert J. Farnsworth Coolometer. Anything less than 40 Megafonzies and you still haven’t arrived, folks. 😃

{Plugs in meter, clenches fists, strains and grunts, can only get the needle up to 30 Megafonzies.} Dammit. ☹

> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#):
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> runs a comb through my brylcreem slathered hair…puts pack of boros back into the sleeve of my white tee shirt…exclaims…“who the fuck are you all looking at?”

I wish you’d said, “What the fuck are you looking at?” because then I’d have a great answer, lifted from Get Fuzzy - “I don’t know - I’m not a scientist.” 😃

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/42 "2012-08-20T18:36:18Z")

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40 Megafonzies? Ha! That metric doesn’t even register on Dean/McQueen Index.

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/43 "2012-08-20T18:50:06Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> The SDMB is rapidly becoming the web’s premier location for penguin related porn, particularly avian on human fellatio. (Google it, I dare you!)

I thought that turned out to be an [Urban Legend](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6141001&postcount=24).

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/44 "2012-08-20T20:17:33Z")

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> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> **C. K. Dexter Haven** took a vacation in Antarctica once, and sent me pics of himself amidst frolicking penguins. On ice. I imagine that this was pretty cool.

I once worked in the Antarctic in my former career. I wasn’t going to post about it, but…

> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#):
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> The cool kids are the ones who are too cool to post in this thread.

Aw, damn.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/45 "2012-08-20T20:35:11Z")

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> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> {Plugs in meter, clenches fists, strains and grunts, can only get the needle up to 30 Megafonzies.} Dammit. ☹

Hey, I got to 38.5 MFz! May not be 40, but it’s close. 🙂

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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/46 "2012-08-20T20:36:48Z")

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Just to be clear, I only posted in this thread ironically

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**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-cool-kids-here/632015/47 "2012-08-20T21:10:58Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> Just to be clear, I only posted in this thread ironically

We know, dear. We know.

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