Why are you cool?

[Beestie]

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Hmmm if I reply to this thread with something that **I** think is cool but no one else does, then it'll backfire and I'll be UNcool.

Hmmm... think... think.

I think if I wait too long to reply to this thread then everyone will know that it took too long to come up with something and they'll know for sure that I'm UNcool. Damn... I'm screwed.

WAIT! GOT IT! If I don't reply at all then everyone will think I'm too cool to even care! Whew! That was close!

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[elf]

[hope]
eclectic is cool?
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[kerosene]

I am cool because my name is case.

And because I get to play puzzle games and musical chairs for a living.

And because I paint.

And because I write poetry.

And because I love music.

And because I buck the rules by starting a sentence with "And", even though it is grammatically incorrect.

[wolf]

Originally posted by JeepNGeorge
So you been up black bear pass? I'm jealous now, we are planning on going out there around the fourth to see if it's as bad as they say. Do you live around the area?

Do you need a copy of the song for the trip?

[kerosene]

Originally posted by case
I am cool because my name is case.

And because I get to play puzzle games and musical chairs for a living.

And because I paint.

And because I write poetry.

And because I love music.

And because I buck the rules by starting a sentence with "And", even though it is grammatically incorrect.

You know what? Those are all reasons why I'm a nerd. I will learn to play this game, eventually.

[Beestie]

case is cool because there are two of her.

[kerosene]

Originally posted by Beestie
case is cool because there are two of her.

How do you know there are only 2?

[elSicomoro]

James told us.

Originally posted by JeepNGeorge
So you been up black bear pass? I'm jealous now, we are planning on going out there around the fourth to see if it's as bad as they say. Do you live around the area?

Yeah, I've lived in Durango and a little place nobody's ever heard of about 30 miles north of Telluride. Great country for this 4x4 adventure girl. I don't recommend going the wrong way over Imogene these days, though - it gets a lot more use than it once did. My most favorate spot for off-roading is the Escalante area in Utah.

[Elspode]

Not only am I uncool, I wouldn't recognize coolness if it came up and froze my cojones off of me.

I have zero fashion sense, I perform music that no one who isn't a complete Pagan geek wants to listen to, I live in a totally mediocre suburban neighborhood in a completely obscure suburban city, I drive a vehicle that looks like a zillion other vehicles, I am unathletic, overweight, unattractive, unhealthy, unmotivated, pompous, immature, petulant and a pessimist.

For a moment, I thought that my writing abilities might be a redeeming cool quality, until I just realized what a run-on sentence I just wrote.

[mrnoodle]

Dang it. Everybody already took my answers.

But I'm a guitarist. People like our band even though it's instru-metal throwback stuff. And when I was in college, my journalism professor wrote me a letter of recommendation that said I was the best writer he had ever taught (ok, so you can't tell TODAY, but I used to be good.)

Other than that, I suck.

Kids and animals like me, though....

[blue]

Originally posted by Troubleshooter


Ok, good. She's ok then, but the rest of you have to die now.

Back in the day when I had Top Secret (and then some), I worked in a former underground WWII torpedo factory for security reasons.

However I am much cooler now that I am a security risk.

I have a presidential assassin in my family tree.

I've won a small business plan award.

I have gotten four disorderly conducts...IN ONE NIGHT.

I have been on ESPN.

I have been removed from a commercial flight.

I've installed a computer in my truck.

I've been electrocuted & burned on many occasions and lived through it.

I'm a techno-whiz/mgmt type but hang out with the maintenance guys.

I can drink every one of you under the table.

What's my cool score?

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by blue58
I can drink every one of you under the table.

Bullshit.

Originally posted by wolf
Do you need a copy of the song for the trip?

Songline for Wolf Creek Pass

You'll know you're almost home
when you reach that pull-out on the road
the one where you put your chains on -
or take them off.
The Rio Grande is just a creek here,
head waters 90 degree angles due west
at the Continental Divide.
Big up country starts Now!

Gear down here and begin to gather speed.
Consider the laws of classical physics
Force = mass x acceleration
Vectors becomes a calculus of place.
And in those days the road was narrow -
two lanes, no guard rails.

Up ahead now, there's a semi going far too slow
And I have a record to break
Besides I never had any use for brakes.
In the mountains, use your gears.
Don't brake going up.
Don't burn out going down.

Swing out and around,
tires skittering near edge
Sharp curve,
1,000 foot drop off!
Pay it no mind
Fear would have you look over the edge
stand on the brakes,
go out of control
skid over and down.

Drive through the fear.
and keep your eyes where you want the tires to go.
You are staying on the road!
Then swing back in
smooth and easy.

It was a riff done by girl and car,
road and mountain.
The trucker flashes his lights -
On Off!
On Off !
- twice in admiration!
I lift one hand from the wheel,
turn and blow him a kiss.
But the road claimed my attention like a jealous lover.

You learn to respect the Pass
listen to its demands
after 7 years of travel -
sometimes in winter blizzards,
sometimes in sudden wash-outs of summer rain.
And don't forget the occasional avalanche
thrown in just to see if you are paying attention.
Wolf Creek always has its moods
and so do I.

Today I am in love
with this road,
these mountains, these Spring wildflowers,
which have come out just for me,
watching as I take those sharp turns
effortlessly - flying,
accelerating into the curves,
my small Suburu hugging the road tight
like that lover
returning home
after a long absence.

Two days later sitting in the faculty lounge,
I'll boast to a friend -
A fellow poet and a philosopher,
but most of all my main competition
in a serious contest -
Who could drive Wolf Creek the best!

"Did the entire pass averaging 50 mph,"
I'd say casually.
He set his coffee cup down with a sound
like a guantlet being flung.
"Prove it!"
So I did.
Took a long drag on my cigarette and said
"Let's go!"

A couple of college teachers cutting class
on a warm spring day
leaving our students behind like shadows
in empty class rooms.

My friend had given me the music for Wolf Creek,
Jean Luc Ponty's incredible jazz violin.
It happened to be in my cassette deck
that day I drove the Wolf Creek invitational.
I hope in return I gave him good company,
talking poetry and the philosophy of road advisories;
dragging the main strip -
Highway 160 between Pagosa Springs and South Fork,
showing off how well we belonged there.

The real kids behind us
would return to the city,
in search of better things.
We'd already found them,
topping the summit of that pass.
Wolf Creek!
Elevation 10,640 feet
Chain law
No longer in effect!

[ladysycamore]

[pimpstress]"I gots my 95 purple, yes PURPLE, Geo Metro, sitting on thirteens baby...AAAAND what![/pimpstress]

Being with Sycamore (shut up Bruce). :p

And well, just because! (I can't turn all this off...*brushing off shoulders).