Are you old ? And are you cool ?

[dweller]

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[Ocelot II]

1. I am old and I have never been cool at all.

So since I had already reached the apex of uncoolness in my youth, I can't get any less cool - so that must mean that I am the coolest old person ever.

[femmedem]

2. I'm cool!

Well, my hands and feet are. Does that count?

[dweller]

3. Cold hands

Warm heart

That’s cool

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[femmedem]

44. Awww! I'll take that!

Best possible response!

[liberal N proud]

4. Born in the 50s, we had...

The coolest music
The coolest cars

[Meadowoak]

6. Born in the 60s, and we had some pretty cool cars and music too.

[Celerity]

27. Eric Dolphy ‎- Out To Lunch! (1964)

Label: Blue Note – BST 84163
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Recorded: February 1964
Released: Aug 1964
Genre: Jazz
Style: Hard Bop, Free Jazz, Modal, Post Bop

This famous 1964 set made if anything more impact than Dolphy’s debut album as a band leader. He’d found a stimulating environment and the active involvement of a youthful cast - Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson now all gone, and Richard Davis now long out of jazz, the session is a historical artefact that’s belied by the freshness of its music. Items like “Gazzelloni” and the stunning “Hat and Beard” have achieved immortality, but also held out a huge promise for the future. Four months and four days later, Dolphy was dead.

[Elessar Zappa]

43. Dolphy was great.

My favorite composer/musician is Frank Zappa and you can hear Dolphy’s influence in some of his works.

[moniss]

23. My rule of thumb was

if it didn't have fins and chrome it wasn't cool.

[Meadowoak]

5. Old enough to know better, but young enough not to care

[ret5hd]

7. .

[Drum]

8. I'm old and I'm cool.

And I don’t really care about my coolness, but my feet hurt

[ret5hd]

9. I'm so cool I'm cold, and if you touch that...

goddamned thermostat again I’m gonna whack you with a stick! You hear me? Get away from it!

[wiggs]

10. Yes I'm old. I have a cool shirt or two though! Does that count? nt

[LakeArenal]

11. I'm hot. Take that anyway you want.

[highplainsdem]

12. I'm okay. And okay with being okay. :)

[2naSalit]

13. Yes I'm cold...

Turn up the heat!

[Martin Eden]

14. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool

By making his world a little colder.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. Original boomer here (1946) and my adult grandkids think their Granny is pretty cool.

The younger ones and great grandkids haven't really given it much thought.

[BigmanPigman]

16. "Sex and drugs rock and roll is all my body needs"

Two out of three ain't bad though.

[twodogsbarking]

17. Mick Jagger on sex and drugs and rock'n'roll:

“You start out playing rock’n’roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock’n’roll and have sex.”

[calimary]

19. Love that quote!

I’m tempted to line it up for one of my Indivisible group’s Call to Action emails…. But…

Nah. Probably better not to.

[soldierant]

34. I can never hear that or just the phrase

without thinking of a cartoon which is so old I read it in a paper newspaper - so I'm old.

The image was of a geezer in a wheelchair ranting:

"Sex, drugs, tock and roll! What kind of values are those? What ever happened to the old values - wine, women, and song?"

And no, I don't have a picture. There were no scanners at the time. But there have always been profound humorists among us.

[calimary]

35. LOVE that!

Wine, women, & song, then.

Sex, drugs, & rock ‘n’ roll, now.

Frankly, what’s the difference? Except of course, the sex part. The latter-day version simply implies BOTH sexes (and beyond), and allows for a broader category of intoxicants. But it’s still just quibbling over the details.

[soldierant]

38. Exactly.

Incidentally, the "wine, women, and song" part may not have been original to Martin Luther, but he certainly liked it enough to spread it.

"Who does not love wine, women, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long."

[calimary]

40. Hah! Good one!

Nothing like appreciating the finer things. Even Martin Luther!

[sarge43]

41. Then there's Tallulah Bankhead's take

"My father warned me about men and whisky. He didn't say a thing about women and cocaine."

[soldierant]

18. Let me show you someone who is cool...

and not that old - but disabled -

[calimary]

20. DAYUM!!!

[BlackSkimmer]

28. Wow, stunning post.

[3Hotdogs]

21. I turned 80 in October. The first thing I tell people is, "80 is the new 90."

I hike. -- maybe 15 miles per week. Never had surgery. All parts are original and they all work. The "Little Soldier" even comes to attention upon interest. (ladies, send me a private message, if interested.)

I've been going to the same walk-in urgent care Doc for 25 years. December, I was there for my third positive covid treatment.

Doc does the usual stuff. Finishes up and proceeds to walk out of the room, when he turns around to me. "I gotta tell you. You are my hero. You are in excellent health. Hiking like you do. When (if) I get to be your age, I want to be like you."



Me: "Well you don't know the rest of it.... (as I load up a photo of me, in waders, in a stream, building a boardwalk bridge over a stream.) I build or repair boardwalk in the swamp or wack weeds on swamp trails, every Friday. That's harder than the hiking."

"You amaze me. God Bless."

So am I cool? First of all, I resolved, never to put on a tie for anything, anymore. I don't worry about what shirt or pants or whatever to wear. I see adverts for clothes, the most sophisticated beverage, the coolest car or whatever. And I say to myself., I says, "I'm glad I don't have to worry about that stuff anymore.

I ain't rich, but there is money left over at the end of the month.

My goal in life is now, to try to make life easier for other people.

Oh, and I'm glad I'm not in my 20's anymore, wondering how I'm going to get through life.

[True Dough]

24. I read through all of that, and I'm left wondering

Could 3Hotdogs possibly remember the words: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV?




Good on you for reaching midlife without any medical crises. Here's hoping the next 80 will be just as smooth!

[3Hotdogs]

26. I got through Person, woman. Got lost on the rest of it 'cause alls I have on my mind is

SEX.

[calimary]

42. Excellent! Congrats on a continuing life of satisfaction!

You’re only as old as you feel! And I bet you feel like a 20-something most of the time!

[moniss]

22. As a matter of fact

I am old. Early Boomer and I wear the standard jeans and t-shirt look. The conforming non-conformist. But for awhile this was how "cool" looked.

[Paladin]

25. I'm both, thank you very much. (nt)

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Same Here

Or at least in think I'm both!
I played in a rock band until I was 50. Does that add anything?

[niyad]

30. I have been cold since the First Ice Age. Does that count?

[DBoon]

31. "I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands"

[Paladin]

32. Buffalo Springfield and Hendrix for me.

After all these years, I still feel blessed.

[calimary]

36. Definitely! And don't forget the Beatles and early Stones!

We sure had some all-time GREATS, didn’t we! What a soundtrack to coming-of-age!

[Paladin]

37. Wish I'd tried harder for Beatles or Stones concert tickets, but oh well... (nt)

[calimary]

39. Well, you wouldn't have heard a thing.

The rest of us were screaming our heads off, throughout the whole show!

[Paladin]

45. As you were damn well entitled to do!

[calimary]

47. That was MY HUSBAND I was screaming for, I'll have you know!

When I was the ripe ol’ age 11, I’ll have you know!

The Beatles broke through when I was in 5th grade. I had three close friends and happily enough, we all liked a different Beatle. So we had a Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Starlet, Mrs. Lennon (never mind that John was “the married one”), and I was Mrs. McCartney.

[Paladin]

49. I was in jr. high when the Beatles invaded the U.S.

I didn't want to marry any of them, but I recognized how much rock music was being improved by them, and I was profoundly grateful. I still have that gratitude, 60 years later.

[calimary]

51. They are GIANTS. The Beatles' place in pop and rock music hostory

is unsurpassed. They led what was soon known as “the British Invasion” with a whole lot of everybody putting bands together, getting signed, touring and hoping to make it in America. A lot of them did! Stones, Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits (sigh…), Freddie and the Dreamers (do “the Freddie!”), Chad & Jeremy, the Kinks, the Animals, the Hollies, the Who, and more! MAN those were the days…

[Paladin]

52. I walked one of my daughters down the aisle to "In My Life."

One of the best wedding processionals I've ever encountered.

[calimary]

53. Perfect choice of music!

I bet there wasn’t a dry eye…

[Paladin]

55. Nothing dry on MY face, for sure. (nt)

[DBoon]

56. I guess I'm just not old enough

The Mothers and David Bowie were my big ones.

I used to impress young punkers with having seen Patti Smith in her Radio Ethiopia tour in 1976.

I was in 2nd grade when the Beatles hit the US.

[Paladin]

57. Nothing wrong with David Bowie. Very talented performer. (nt)

[calimary]

58. Indeed!

[Wounded Bear]

33. Yes and no...

[Yavin4]

46. Of course old people are cool.

Because old people do not give a f*** which makes us cool by definition.

[wnylib]

48. Yes, I'm old. I never did care about being cool,

so does that mean that I've always been cool?

[Emile]

50. I have an electric throw on me, so call me old and HOT

[Skittles]

54. I'm cool as all fuck

yes INDEED

and I NEVER cared about "being cool" - I was always the new girl in school, quite the outlier