5-star Fedora experience

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Jun 20 17:35:56 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year
> olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, >
> English is not my native language :)
> 
> In a local restaurant, there is an old advertisement poster for men's
> boxer shorts, and in quotes the word 'coolness.'  My oldest teenage
> daughter saw that and wondered about the 'modern' advertisement. 
> Fortunately, there was a copyright date on the poster.  The date?
> 
> 1915.
> 
> What's old is new again.
> 
> It's quite possible that a little over twenty years after that ad was
> published the shorter 'cool' was still in use, around the time a 73
> year-old would have been born.


It's also possible that the advertisement literally meant "keeps your
genitals cool in the summer". It's hard to know what a hundred-year-old
advertisement might really have meant :)
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