Cool and Straker

"Pam McCaughey" <[hidden email]> wrote (Subject: Re: Identified):-

> I agree with James - the term "cool" has been around for many years. ...

I don't care for the modern use of "cool": that word is getting too many
meanings causing confusion. In the old days, if a man was called "cool", I
thought that it meant like its temperature sense: "calm, collected, not
getting excited" and similar.

> As for Straker being "cool" even his surname is unusual ...

It is not related to "strike". A strake is a rib in a ship or boat, and
similar. The first time I came across the word was in the King James version
of the Bible, where Laban told Jacob was told that his wages as a shepherd
would be or include all lambs in his charge that were born spotted or striped
or "ringstraked". (The New English Bible uses the word "brindled".)

"Anthony Appleyard" wrote:
> "Pam McCaughey" <[hidden email]> wrote (Subject: Re: Identified):-
>
> > I agree with James - the term "cool" has been around for many years. ...
>
> I don't care for the modern use of "cool": that word is getting too many
> meanings causing confusion. In the old days, if a man was called "cool", I
> thought that it meant like its temperature sense: "calm, collected, not
> getting excited" and similar.
>

That's the interesting thing about language, it's a dynamic,
living thing, organic almost, and subject to change from
different cultural trends and so on. I attended a presentation
the other day in which a software developer told us about
the 'sexy new features' of the software product he was working
on ..

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At 05:08 PM 1/18/01 EST, you wrote:
I have to agree, and as for you, Amelia, I'm sending six
Intercontinental Ballistic Ferrets to piddle on your foot! ;-)



"Ninety percent of science-fiction is crud. That's because
ninety percent of everything is crud."
Theodore Sturgeon

Dave Walsh
Harlington-Straker Sound Productions
[hidden email]
http://members.home.net/darqnyt/index.html

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At 09:36 PM 1/18/01 EST, Amelia the Ferret-hating Califorian wrote:

> Sorry, I programmed SID to detect them, track them on radar, and I
>re-programmed them to drop somewhere over Washington. With any luck, just as
>Bush takes the oath of office, they'll land on him and down Laura's dress.
>Besides, didn't the SALT treaty say something about a ferret determent?
>Shouldn't the Animal Protection agency be knocking at your door for
launching
>helpless ferrets into U.S. airspace? See, Steve, I *told* you to get
another
>technical assistant. (G)

SID is only able to detect objects traveling faster than light (Or
decelerating from the same), not individual biological lifeforms, and as
for the SALT treaty, I don't recall that I ever signed it! ;-]



There was a space traveler named Wright
Who liked to go faster than light
He started one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night!

Dave Walsh
Harlington-Straker Sound Productions
[hidden email]
http://members.home.net/darqnyt/index.html

Bedsitter says:
> > I have to agree, and as for you, Amelia, I'm sending six >
>Intercontinental Ballistic Ferrets to piddle on your foot! ;-)
>
>Sorry, I programmed SID to detect them, track them on radar, and I
>re-programmed them to drop somewhere over Washington.

You WHAT?! I don't want Dave's ferrets piddling here!

With any luck, just as
>Bush takes the oath of office, they'll land on him and down Laura's dress.

Oh, THAT Washington. Carry on...

>Besides, didn't the SALT treaty say something about a ferret determent?

I believe it did. It also included marmots in a residential area. That ain't
legal either, dude...

And as far as "cool" goes...just watch jazz musicians. They've been saying
cool for 60 years. And, believe it or not, GROOVY. I've got movies from the
late thirties and early forties where they say cool and groovy. Cab Calloway
and Tommy Dorsey, to name a few...

Kent (but not far out. That came much later...)
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