which ILX0R most nearly approximates your personal conception of cool?

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you know, just cool.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I choose either Jel or Pashmina or maybe Dave Q

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

jeanne or teeny

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

i can choose myself, right?

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne no doubt.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Dan, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Probably Ally.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

cozen, spencer chow.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

A short check indicates that my definition of cool is sufficiently expansive to be useless.

If you mean standard Fonz/Jedi Knight cool, though, it has to be Tombot.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

the ones that don't post threads like this.

someone say i'm cool for the love of god!!!111one

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/347CE6A1-B52C-4E9D-ACAE-66D8DC0DFE05/0/lido_1_standard.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

g-kit

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

arthur. nathalie.

― youn, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Starry Sara.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Dadaismus

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

... now you're just being silly

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

what ever happened to tarneko? that was a cool chick. And Di.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

but in a cool way, no?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

in the pictures he posts Tuomas allways looks like he is doing something interesting with a bunch of people. I think that makes him pretty cool

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

The guy (or gal) who used to only post in haikus

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

if we're talking pictures, i POKE MY TONGUE OUT. pick me!!

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

sarah McL, masonicboom kate, teeny . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

definitely Ned for me.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

The guy (or gal) who used to only post in haikus

That's Neudonym/Haikunym/Begs2Differ, and he's still around.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Good cool: Tep, Scott & Maria, Tuomas, Jeanne (and prob loads more.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

By Jedi Knight, I basically mean Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace, so I basically mean Sanjuro.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

marcello carlin

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Je4nne and Tuomas, in very different ways.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Josh

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Dave Q, Teeny, Geeta

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

do you have a "bad cool" list, archel?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Le coolness supreme: Suzy. Very-close runners-up: MasonicBoom, Di(e).

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and also Ramosi/Le Coq. This is why I hate making lists, I always leave too many things out.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

oh yes! tep! and lauren and ned as well!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually LeCoq is a really good choice too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

(The idea that anyone could name me as cool is truly astounding. But terribly flattering. :-) Thanks!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Sarah McL, both Kates, Roxy, Jeanne, Luna, Teeny, Gygax, Huck, Archel, Lauren.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I want to add Dee to my list too!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

aw! such love! These threads still make me feel weird though, I don't like picking favorites. I hang out around here precisely because it would be hard to pick a favorite, I've gotten ridiculously close to some of you considering it's all ones and zeros.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I don't know really, I think probably lots of different parts of different people.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Partist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

ned's hair's ok, the rest is expendable

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

this thread is so not cool.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

do you have a "bad cool" list, archel?
Um, kind of. More of a 'scary cool' really. But I'm not saying who's on that...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

all the lurkers duh! ;-)

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

it's okay Teeny, I don't actually like "cool" people. ;)

(J/K obv.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I was describing Lauren the other day and the word cool featured three or four times, something like "at first she's almost intimidatingly cool, but then she's just cool cool. She's really cool. In a good way".

The only other person who I can remember off the top of my head for whom the tag "cool" is utterly apposite is of course Geeta.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, I like them

http://www.trakmarx.com/2001_01/old_records/lurkers_front.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

they do look cool.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Also, people who I envy/admire/want to be like, secretly or otherwise: Pash, Tombot, Jocelyn, CJ the Unruly (who would be Queen in any ranking of ILX by coolness), Nabisco, Archel, Mark Grout, Nick & Sarah, Gem, Cis, Scott & Maria. Probably lots of others too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

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oops, I posted on this thread.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I believe Vic's old login name was ... Vic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I would have named you, J, but I was trying to build up my indie cred by picking through antipodean underdogs. Plus I've met you, and the whole funny/entertaining thing about this thread was thinking about the difference between projecting cool on a board and actually being that way in life, which are two hugely different things for everyone apart from like Tracer; it seemed less masturbatory and more weirdly sociological. Unfortunately I post to ILX like four times a day while eating lunch at work, so I can't dredge up any particular personal feelings about the concept of being "internet-addicted losers." It's something I've only ever imagined about those people who wind up having mood-swingy emotional "relationships" with the board (ahem); everybody else, well, I just assume they're bored at work. I fucking wish I could get back to spending too much time on this thing -- I wouldn't always be so late with new album releases.

Also I think we all need to take steps to reclaim masturbation and mutual masturbation from their increasingly negative connotations. Some people pay money for that shit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I've been around as long as the mountains and the sky, friend.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

cool

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Uncool is the New Cool

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Charlotte in NYC

-- C J (CJ_The_Unrul...), May 17th, 2005. (later)

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.cv/alexinnyc/Sites/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-05-17%2007.51.35%20-0700/Image-E1FD008AC6E211D9.jpg-thumb_140_105.jpg

Yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!

― Charlotte in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

ILX in "mutual-masturbation" infant-involvement shame!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Please don't allude to my infant when using the term "masturbation", nabisco. It's sleazy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Own up, who's first action on seeing this thread was to do Ctrl + F and put their own name in? My shortest ever route to disappointment, obv.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

(Arf, Alex, that was the point! Not me-sleazy, but, ya know, earlier posters putting mutual-masturbation charges on e.g. people calling your baby cool, which is mostly just polite and friendly and true.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

One person told me offline that he thought I was cool and I just thought he had an indefensibly absurd interpretation of the world. It didn't occur to me to search for my name - I'd have been astonished to find me cited as that. I am middle aged, balding, funny shaped, white, English, I wear a cheap suit to work - I mean, how many strikes does one get?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

It's true, Charlotte may well be the coolest person here!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

AJA

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

MARCELLO'S RIGHT, THSI THREAD IS DUMB BYE

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

it was the sex on the couch thread, rich.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

What does it matter if people get left out? Honestly? I don't see my name in this thread [not that I actively looked for it], but really, if people really do hate me I hope they'll tell me to my face. And if they do, so what? I've got thicker skin than to care what a few people on a message board think of me.

And so what if it's a big back-slapping exercise? Nobody's forcing anyone to read these threads.

If this thread has taught me anything, it's that Marcello gets worked up over nothing. He can spell 'arse' properly though, I'll give him that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeh,
someday I'm going to make her mine.

― Flava Flavs got problems of his own! / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

This still going?

MOVE BACK TO YOUR HOMES, PEOPLE, CLEAR THE STREET! WE HAVE TEAR GAS AND RUBBER BULLETS AND WATER HOSES!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

JESUS H CHRIST ON A SHARPENED STICK. SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR THE LOVE OF PINEAPPLES.

That's first class invective. I'm going to use that for the title of my next book. Cheers, Tracie!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 19 May 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'd be type 1. Or maybe type 456. I dunno.

― jel, Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

I found a tea shop last month, and have been buying lots of nice tea from there, some top draw Bangladeshi Assam and some equally tasty DarJeeling. Tea is great!
-- Come Back Johnny B
Tea is indeed great! And just as kissing leads to making love, so too does Darjeeling lead to Lapsang Souchong.
-- moley (mol...), May 18th, 2005. (later)

oh sorry wrong thread

Only way I'M gonna be mentioned on a cool person thread . . .

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm flattered. Or flattened. Not sure which.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

ask him about his last book trayce

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

oh dear.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

if people really do hate me I hope they'll tell me to my face

Is this really true? I know you reap what you sow etc. etc. but being told I'm hated really upsets me (I can take being hated by people I strongly dislike, I guess, but everyone else, ouch).

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

I HATE YOU (ok i don't)

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

I think the Monks had a song something like that.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

I've had enough genuine comments like that lately, JBR :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I had a line in a song once "Kissing leads to sex like pot leads to heroin" but I like the bit about tea and Lapdop Shoesnog a lot better!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Eric Carmen

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I like you, Mark. Although I have a deep desire to thrash you in a game of tennis.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

You euphemistic Moosehead-swiller, Rob.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/images/400.gif

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Moosehead? Bah! I wouldn't touch that pondwater! It's all about the CREEMORE, baby.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

IT'S ALL MOLSON'S TO US DOWN HERE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

It occurred to me yesterday that becoming an "internet-addicted saddo" type might mean forgetting what it is that you do when they actually go out and socialize with people, which is that you pretty much just talk about each other half the time. Except that you talk about whoever's not there, and make fun of their recent behavior and clothing purchases. Since there's no behind-the-back here, we have to say nice things about one another, which seems less like circle-jerkery and more like not having as much of an opportunity to go out for a smoke and be all like "seriously, dude, what's the deal with that guy anyway?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jazzphotography.us/images/musicians/miles5.jpg

Well, I know a thing or two about cool, and I say its Matt DC.

― Miles, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

"What's the deal with that guy anyway?"

My dear, if you only knew the quarter of it...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 May 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

"I would have picked Stewart, but then I know he would come here and say "Cool? Moi?"

Au contraire mon brave, it is very kind of you to suggest otherwise but I am a Chartered Accountant and as such, by definition, I am the very epitome of everything that is un-cool.

I am the diametric opposite of "groovy", the living embodiment of everything that is not "funky".

I am so unfashionable that I would be in imminent danger of coming back into fashion, if only I was switched-on enough to pretend that I was being ironic.

I am, in fact, the black hole of hip.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Exactly as predicted and exactly why I would have picked you.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

daria g

― youn, Friday, 20 May 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

This. Thread. Is. Classic.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 21 May 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

My dear, if you only knew the quarter of it...

http://xiibaro.hypermart.net/images/gba/Brando90/actor-reversal.jpg

"You have no idea."

― christmas lights (christmaslights), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Moosehead - 'Moosehead'

Sunrise, wrong aide of another day
Sky high and six thousand miles away
Don’t know how long I’ve been awake
Wound up in an amazin’ state

I can’t get enough
And you know it’s righteous atuff
Goes up like prices at christmas, this
Moosehead, you can call me
Moosehead, alright

Brained out, total amnesia
Get some mental anaeathesia
Don’t move, I’ll shut the door and kill the lights
It I can be wrong I must be right
All good clean fun
Have another stick of gum
Man, you look better already
Moosehead, remember me now
Moosehead, alright

Fourth day, five day marathon
We’re moving like a parallelogram
Don’t move, the mornin’s not a pretty sight
I guess, I’ll see you all on the ice

I should be tired, and all I am is wired
Ain’t felt this good for an hour
Moosehead, remember me now
Moosehead, alright

― moley, Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

There are people on ILX whom I consider to be so cool that they intimidate me. Then there are people on ILX whom I consider to be "just cool enough", i.e. I would sorta like to be like them but not with the drawback that I could never really get to know them. I'm not going to name the people in those categories, though I'm fairly certain they already know who they are. I mean, I'm not exactly vague in my dealings with people, I don't think.

BTW, I'm so terminally uncool that any inclusion on any person's list herein contravenes the order of natural law. Sorry Pink; you'll just have to "want", not actually "include". ;)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

"Exactly as predicted and exactly why I would have picked you."

Could this be another example of that "irony" thing I've heard all you bright young things discussing?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Irony has been outlawed. Practitioners are to be killed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

daria g

-- youn

Youn! No!!!!! I thought you loved me! :-)

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Practitioners are to be killed...with extreme prejudice.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

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