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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:48 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 06/20/2011 06:35 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> Perhaps.  At times like this I look to the OED, and its first citation
> is from the New Yorker in 1948: "The bebop people have a language of
> their own. Their expressions of approval include 'cool'!"
> 
> Andrew.

See also World Wide Words: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coo1.htm
for a more extensive article on various meanings of 'cool'.

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