You know what’s cool? Now the word ‘cool’ has like a billion meanings. Anything can be cool. This morning it was raining, the air is cold. That’s so cool.
Then I board this bus and the air-con is cold, that’s so cool too. So how to look cool?
I proudly revealed ‘New Scientist’ to the people sitting just right opposite me. They took a glance and looked back and they quickly turned away. Oh man, this is so (nerd) cool!
I flipped open the magazine to this page with a pretty computer illustrated image that looks kinda cool. The article is about superstrings and cosmic strings. [No g-strings.] They talked about dimensions and stuff, frankly speaking the only thing about ‘dimension’ that I know of is that the Battle of Middle Earth game we bought last December is in 3D (3-dimensional graphics).
But who cares? You just got to pretty that you’re reading a magazine. Flip to the page with the most sophisticated graphics. You see this page with some sand dunes in page 8 of New Scientist’s December 18 issue? Flip away, it’s not as cool to view sand dunes, dude. People would think that you’re reading National Geographic or something.
I would recommend readers of New Scientist December 18 issue to read page 24 which has this nice graphic of - wait, let me check - er, optical computer part crystallise in bacteria. [Please do not question me about crystallization; I only know they make crystals.] Or just some super string theory stuff you know.
The rule of thumb is to just flip to a page that has a nice graphic and a bunch of text that seemed so never-ending. Just stare at the page as long as possible and start thinking about what to eat during lunch. Now, let me get back to reading about really cool solar cells.
(very late comment…and it’s obvoius I haven’t been here in weeks,lol)
Yeah,everyone uses the word “cool” a lot,even when it’s unappropriate.
“Hey,that house is on fire….cool!”
“Your dog is getting fixed? Dude,that is so cool!”
I happen to use the word “ghetto” a lot.It’s really stupid.
Like the local Wal-Mart for example-I (and a lot of my friends) call it Ghetto-Mart because they don’t clean their floors.
those off-brand foods they sell at the grocery stores? It’s ghetto food.
or those knock-off designer clothes people sell on the street? That’s ghetto couture,lol.
anyone who uses duct tape for just about everything is ghetto fabulous
(I am!)
This kind of caught on with my family and my friends and now they’re saying it.
by aurora_starfire (Apr 7, 2005 at 11 PM)eh? What’s getto by the way? I haven’t heard of this word. It meant “really stupid”?
by Mr. Dew (Apr 8, 2005 at 12 AM)ghetto :
1)an old,run-down neighborhood
2) something that’s just tacky (or cheap),lol.
by aurora_starfire (Apr 9, 2005 at 3 AM)Can apply to a person/place/thing as well.
aurora_starfire: Okay, I never heard of this word, we don’t use it here in Singapore. Singapore has some of the strangest words too, I heard before people saying, “Steady Pom Pi Pi”. Whatever the origins of the words are… I don’t even know the exact meaning. I think it has something to do with the fact that the people are spontaneous and think similarly to one another. Something like that. I may still be wrong, lol
by Mr. Dew (Apr 9, 2005 at 8 AM)