What do you think is the coolest thing you ever saw?

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This is my question - what do you think is the coolest thing you ever saw?

For me, the first thing that comes to mind is on the TV show 'The Bookgroup', when Rav kissed someone on the staircase, and as they kissed, he flicked away his cigarette. Not that I think that whole show is cool, but that's what comes to mind. What do other people think is the coolest thing they saw? I'm interested if there's a common denominator.

― some old lurker, Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

So obviously, what I mean is not what's the 'neatest' or 'best' thing you ever saw but what's the ... well, I guess the definition of 'coolest' is what's supposed to turn up when I derive the common denominator from other people's 'cool incidents', but what I mean roughly, is like, you know how Dylan on Beverly Hills 90210 was supposed to be cool, I mean that sort of meaning of cool.

― s.o.l., Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

But maybe it is too uncool for people to confess they saw something they thought was cool. Get around this by a disclaimer like mine about 'The Bookgroup'.

― sol, Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://eil.com/newgallery/Serge-Gainsbourg-Bambou-Et-Les-Pou-251885.jpg

This book is the coolest book ever.

― Zombie Toilet Suit, Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Boobs!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Boobs are pretty cool.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

leave it to Serge Gainsbourg. Where'd you get that? It's way outta print, innit?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/images/showing/nftstills/03-07/samourai.jpg
Le Samourai

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't see it, but.. Cool.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You were sitting there smoking my cigarette.
You were naked on the bare stone floor.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is actually a damn hard question! It should also be a picture thread...

http://www.brightonhenweekends.com/Images/210203/bogart-humphrey-photo-humphrey-bogart-6201718.jpg

this guy probably established my first definition of cool (highly dull-canonical, I know)

http://www.letras.puc-rio.br/catedra/imagens/a_queiro.jpg

A very different type of cool, but just as effective for me: the smartass dandy shit kickin' writer archetype of cool.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 27 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

honestly tho, on a gut level, I'm tempted to go with either one of these two:

http://www.davidlynch.de/lifetape.jpg

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.09.03/gifs/kill-bill-0341.jpg

...but both of their acheivements are far too fresh in my mind for me to trust myself regarding this.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 27 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://devastatingsoundworks.com/fonzie.jpg

― rxreed (rxreed), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630507402X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Le Samourai (sp?) that's true. And all the above. But I guess Le Samourai is important: it's almost totally silent. And completely sad.

― sol, Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

either "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" or "Bananaphone"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ZTS: Is that book cover supposed to be Michael Jackson, or a mannequin? Or a mannequin of Michael Jackson?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw two moths fucking on the library window last week. i thought that was pretty cool, in a discovery channel kind of way.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

If by 'coolest' you mean to signify 'most inexplicable low-budget canadian film ever made' ... http://www.chez.com/sweetceline/discography/vid_pbs.jpg

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw my friend, April, give birth to her daughter, Rhiannon. It was a "water birth", so Rhiannon was caught under water and slowly brought to the surface by the midwife. Amazing.

― aimurchie, Monday, 28 June 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Phish playing live on Farm Aid on CMT, which wasn't the coolest thing ever. What was the coolest thing ever was the stunned lady commentator saying "Well gawwwLEEE y'awwll, how bout that thur PUH-HISH!?!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dawn and I were in a takeaway pizza shop, the kind where they give you it free if they don't get it to you within 30 mins. They don't do that anymore anywhere I believe. Anyhow, they had had a school trip visit them, and they had demonstrated what they do and how they do things (heck, they used to film stuff like this and play it through the arch window on Playschool, but I digress). We know all this because the kids had all done 'thank you' letters with drawings in crayon, and these were pinned to the wall. One kid had written about how he'd enjoyed 'watching the cheese grating machine, it was Fascinating and Cool'. So, that phrase was one of the coolest things I ever saw, and I nicked it for my 'anthology' collection...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

when I was walking down the street and I saw a guy doing the david bowie thing with the glass balls from labyrinth. I regret not talking to that guy.

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Walking through the rear eantrance of the performing arts center on our way to the Tango Buenos Aires show, my daughter and I saw three male tango dancers in tight black suits and high heels sillhouetted in a dim doorway. They were lighting cigarettes and talking in soft Argentine accents about their upcoming routines. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

― briania (briania), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/06/photos/xprs-sphere-dark.jpg

Motorcycles zipping about in a round steel cage. Woman standing in the middle, juggling torches.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.zzzptm.com/images/antarctica.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=86

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 28 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken C, that is amazing! One picture telling several stories...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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