what were you into when it was still cool before everyone else found out about it

[datasuspect]

and ruined it?

i was anti-consumer in the mid 80s.

PLUS

i saw the first season of ren and stimpy when it was on nickelodeon (after rugrats).

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Johnny Cash

But he's still, and always will be, cool.

[mitchum]

2. Auto erotic asphyxiation

[pitohui]

41. you and me both, who knew it had such a fancy name?

at least we were more advanced than the kids who thought they invented oral sex!

[Haole Girl]

3. Elvis Presley

It made me sick how everyone mocked him because he'd gained weight & then pretended they were such lifelong fans the moment he died.

I've always loved Elvis. And always will. :-)

[datasuspect]

4. i adore fat elvis

[Enrique]

5. Dungeons and Dragons in the mid 70's

the cool thing was that we were little kids and we didn't have any clue how to play, so it was even more mysterious.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Tennis, before the Bobby Riggs 'battle of the sexes' matches.

After that, you were fighting for court time with assholes who looked great in their little tennis outfits but couldn't play worth a damn.

[azmouse]

7. *sigh* I don't think I've ever done anything even vaguely cool....

[Ptah]

8. vise grips, a blacksmith's creation.

[MissMillie]

9. I've never been into anything cool

:shrug:

[Lyric]

10. Rejecting "cool" things.

[swag]

11. Sneezing

[leeroysphitz]

12. Hello Kitty.

[RagAss]

13. Tattoos

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Pretty much everything I've ever been into.

x(

[RetroLounge]

15. The Simpsons on Tracy Ullman Show...

and life in hell by Matt Groening before anyone heard of him (via The Chicago Reader )

RL

[YankeyMCC]

38. You stole my answer :)

[RetroLounge]

43. GMTA

:hi:

RL

[143tbone]

16. The internet. Back in the Compuserve days. Long ass menus and

long distance charges, but man was it exciting. And tedious and expensive.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Hating George W. Bush. Now everyone does it. Band wagon jumpers.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

45. LOL same here...

:-)

[mcctatas]

18. Being uncool of course...

:)

[JVS]

19. How cool is something really if the interest of others makes it lame?

I like beer and coitus. Timeless classics no matter how many people are interested in them.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Coitus? That is so last century.

:eyes:

[JVS]

21. Speak for yourself

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Dude, last century was 8 years ago.

:rofl:

[JVS]

23. The more relevant question is when the last coitus was.

You might find coitus to be sooo last century, but for many of us it is very 2008

[Midlodemocrat]

24. I thought the preferred word was

fucking, not coitus.


:rofl:

[Ptah]

26. My hat's off for Coit Tower

[Tangerine LaBamba]

44. When I lived in San Francisco,

I had coitus under Coit Tower. Just so we could say we did.

[nickgutierrez]

47. Nothing phallic about that.

Nooooooooooo, sir.

:rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Gourmet coffee long before the proliferation of Starbucks

I discovered gourmet coffee with my first sip of Kona in Hawaii in 1977, and this was reinforced in Japan, where gourmet coffee was already well-established.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. so did I, back in the day of the little espresso kiosks in the malls. Very pre Starbucks

definitely.

[rcrush]

28. ECW

[JVS]

34. EC fuckin W

[quakerboy]

29. Chaco Sandals

Nalgene bottles. Magic the Gathering. Guillotines



Actually, I think they would all have become popular much sooner, had I not early adopted and given everyone else second thoughts.

[Deja Q]

30. CFLs

:evilgrin:

[rcrush]

31. Star Trek

[lunatica]

33. Me too. Everyone laughed at me but I loved it

I've always believe that if the story is good the low budget scenery is just props. Star Trek is still a friggin phenomenal storyline. And it broke all the race and gender barriers, and made aliens interesting and multi-dimensional and cool.

edited for spelling

[Deja Q]

46. And when the masses do like it, that's when forced emotions and big effects mean more than

actual stories and logic. (Not a Spock reference; a lot of TV shows these days set up a story and don't follow through with the logic within the story. Anything can happen for no reason or for the most throwaway of excuses. It's, forgive me, utterly SHITTY WRITING and I don't even want to call it "writing" because it isn't. It's maudlin toddler scribble that dumbs down the IQ of anybody watching it.)

I do like TNG up to a certain season, but all its spinoffs were lame. And "Enterprise" felt more like a prequel to TNG than the original series, and don't get me started on the bastardization that will be shown on the big screen in May of 2009...

[TommyO]

55. Agreed, when it held hope for the future

Not the sanitized Berman generation.

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. The mass appeal of Monty Python has only made it even cooler

for those of us who've been into it since it came to the U.S. in 1975. :)

For example, if one knows such stuff as "The Piranha Brothers" bit in episode 14 was based on real-life London gangsters the Kray Twins (and the model for Spiny Norman was Det. Sgt. Norman Pilcher, former head of the London Police Drug Squad who led the arrests for marijuana possession of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and John Lennon, and that he was "Semolina Pilcher" in "I Am the Walrus"), or that the stripper in "Eighteenth-Century Social Legislation" in episode 11 was not Carol Cleveland but an exotic dancer Eric Idle was dating, or that Graham Chapman got the idea for "Ministry of Silly Walks" from the odd way a neighbor of John Cleese walked up the hill to his house, one is afforded god-like status among Python fans — and being god-like is always cool.

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. Truth and higher standards.

Still not quite ruined. Not quite.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

36. K-Swiss Tennis shoes

Been wearing them since the 70's and a few years ago the great grandkids tell me how cool I am for wearing them. Go figure.

[astral]

37. wheat grass juice

[KG]

39. maryjane

i was one of the few freshman stoners in HS, but by the time i was a senior half the football team was bugging me to get 'em high. oy! :eyes:

[WCGreen]

40. Graphic Novels and dark comic books...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

42. Promiscuity

I was easy before it was cool.

[foxfeet]

48. Self-induced vomiting.

Then I found out that Brussels sprouts were supposed to taste like that.

[jobycom]

49. The Internet, Democratic Underground...

:)

[Iggo]

50. Hacky Sack.

Okay, it was never cool.

But still...

[SarahB]

51. DU

[lightningandsnow]

52. The Cliks.

http://www.myspace.com/thecliks

I liked them before they were the band all the cool queer kids were listening to.

[Tom Kitten]

53. I hope this question wasn't directed at me

I was pretty much into everything that was cool before everybody else found out about it...that's why I'm poor, nobody listened to me back then...but things will change I hope! I've thought up this great idea about people communicating with each other using these hand held computer like things...

[CTyankee]

54. Rio de Janiero and bossa nova

My mother took me to S.A. when I was, um, let's say "young" in the late 50s. Rio just knocked me out; I couldn't believe how fabulous it looked and how absolutely beautiful the women and men were. Bossa Nova was a wonderful discovery for me there. It wasn't until the early 60s that it became popular in the U.S.

[ok_cpu]

56. Johnny Cash

[peruban]

57. Ren and Stimpy, South Park...

DU (seriously, I was on this board seven or so years ago as "kixot", took three or four years off and now am back under a new s/n), MTV buzz clips, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, most of the Seattle grunge scene, gay acceptance, Tori Amos, the Onion, Craigslist, and torrent downloading. There's more but my brain hurts to go back that far.

[Lincolngirl]

60. With you on South Park,

Introduced it to lots of people the first season! Cannot believe it's still on!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

58. DU. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. Cigars. Martinis and classic cocktails*. Microbrews. Wine. Comic Books.

So many things, and so many of them ruined by artless yuppie scum fucks and other trendy brainless assholes who can't think for themselves.

* In fact, I was drinking Cosmopolitans years before the yuppie ignorant filth called them "Cosmos"

[unpossibles]

61. I saw Ren & Stimpy at a festival a year before TV broadcast

:D

Just sayin.

But yeah, I have a bad habit of being into things at the wrong time: when they are uncool.

[SoxFan]

62. REM

I was pissed that I couldn't get in to a club to see them because of the damn drinking age!