Re: virus: cool

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:05:17 -0700


Nate writes:

>If a mad man went into a McDonalds and sprayed the dinners with bullets,
>would you say "cool" ?

In the company I keep, "cool", an invaluable word suited to an endless
number of applications, is just as often used in the dismissive--as a
shorthand for, "That's nice, but I really don't care. Next topic, please."

So, yes. The odds are, I would say "cool" if some McCustomers were mowed
down by a madman. (Either that or, "Oh, the humanity!" :-)

-Prof. Tim