Captain John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is an American former astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer, who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to make six space flights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service,[1] and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969, he became the first person to orbit the Moon alone during Apollo 10. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974–1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004.
Has there ever been a President as cool as Obama? Like him or, the guy is freaking smart as a whip, good looking and always well dressed, he's the best public speaker I've ever seen, by all accounts the guy plays basketball against some very accomplished players and more than holds his own, he wrote books and taught Constitutional law, first black president, he smoked UBL and countless others, got called all kinds of vicious things by all kinds of kinds of people people but he never lost his cool even once, he's got a hot wife and two great kids, never embroiled in any extramarital bunk. Like I say, like him or not, dude is pretty effing accomplished and he definitely has style.
Plus, the guy's not an actor - he's doing all this in real time on the first take on the world's biggest stage. You know - how hard can it be to be some Hollywood actor and be filmed over the course of hundreds of takes and wind up looking cool?
Has there ever been a President as cool as Obama? Like him or, the guy is freaking smart as a whip, good looking and always well dressed, he's the best public speaker I've ever seen, by all accounts the guy plays basketball against some very accomplished players and more than holds his own, he wrote books and taught Constitutional law, first black president, he smoked UBL and countless others, got called all kinds of vicious things by all kinds of kinds of people people but he never lost his cool even once, he's got a hot wife and two great kids, never embroiled in any extramarital bunk. Like I say, like him or not, dude is pretty effing accomplished and he definitely has style.
Plus, the guy's not an actor - he's doing all this in real time on the first take on the world's biggest stage. You know - how hard can it be to be some Hollywood actor and be filmed over the course of hundreds of takes and wind up looking cool?
p.s.-- Freddie Mercury is a different kind of cool. When I watch the video linked below I can't help thinking that he is the personification of the Gay Alpha Male... Freddie Mercury--Somebody to Love - ( New Window )
I mean what could be cooler than putting your desire to blow your load with East German spies over national security? At least the more recent gross pervert POTUS kept his wad with clueless interns.
JFK was a piece of shit.
My answer is Bill Gates. He is saving an absurd amount of lives around the globe.
If we're going more with the external, then Kerouac.
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Obama was cool, but serving in the USMC during the 80's, most fellow Marines believed Ronald Reagan was cool also.
I'd say Reagan was a cool President. And even though I wasn't alive at the time (surprisingly), from what I know of Teddy Roosevelt - he seemed pretty cool as well. In fact, if I was to sit down and have a conversation with any president, he'd be at or near the top.
Should have known better then put up a political figure. But since the horse is out of the barn, and since its Dem v. Dem, I don't think JFK was half as cool as BHO. I'm not 20 something but I also not so old as to have been alive when JFK was President. But JFK was a womanizer and for sure cheated on his wife and I don't think that's cool at all. Funny thing about JFK, I don't think he'd be remembered as fondly without Jackie. I think she made him look cool. I know it can't happen here but it might be a fun thread though, who was the coolest US President?
Obama was cool, but serving in the USMC during the 80's, most fellow Marines believed Ronald Reagan was cool also.
Seriously? I thought 80's jar heads and a good many thereafter despised Regan for his failure to heed warnings prior to Beruit.
As far as being cool, I remember Regan as being a square's square. He was mocked from a fashion point with his brown and plaid suits and absurd black slicked back hair. Prior to being elected Governor many people in Hollywood hated him and behind his back laughed at his marriage to Nancy who was legandary in Tinsle Town for all the wrong reasons. In his second term Regan was routinely mocked as being senile, which years latter was confirmed to be early onset dementia. I'm not knocking ol' Dutch but like most famous people his legand fares far better than his life in real time. He was always thought of as a "tough guy" president, or a "cowboy" but I'm not sure many people thought he was cool.
Billy D Williams
Burt Reynolds
Snoop
Willie Nelson
Damn, I hit enter before finishing my edit - NOT COOL.
Anyway, My definition is:
1. Oozing with charisma and talent.
2. Unique Lifestyle that they don't push, but everyone still wants to imitate.
3. Laidback and unmoved by criticism
A cool person IMO, cannot be anyone who is just plain nerdy or awkward, who pushes their beliefs/lifestyle on everyone, or who is constantly frustrated by or fights criticism.
Again my list was:
Bill D Williams
Burt Reynolds
Snoop
Willie Nelson
Sinatra and Dean Martin
Keano Reeves
is as much a matter of politics as anything else. I'll tread lightly, but some of the characteristics we admire in one or more of them are part and parcel of the characteristics others find abhorrent. Sauve and cosmopolitan = effete and metrosexual. Bedded Marilyn Monroe = philandering ass.
Old school cool - Dean Martin / charles bronson
tv sitcom cool - Fonzi / trapper john
movie cool - Clint Eastwood
sports cool - Ali
hero cool - Gen. Patton
I mean what could be cooler than putting your desire to blow your load with East German spies over national security? At least the more recent gross pervert POTUS kept his wad with clueless interns.
JFK was a piece of shit.
My answer is Bill Gates. He is saving an absurd amount of lives around the globe.
If we're going more with the external, then Kerouac.
Aren't you the same dude who said his assassination wasn't that big of a deal? Did JFK cheat on your grandparents or something?
Years ago a pitcher through a fastball aimed right at Johnson's noggin. Waiting until the very last millisecond and without moving a single other muscle in his body, Johnson turned his head profile as the ball whizzed past, missing his face by a centimeter or two. And then he turned his head back just as calmly staring down the pitcher.
Dean Martin mid-career.
Jack Nicholson is a good choice, would tab Eastwood and John Wayne more as emblematic of masculinity than simply "cool."
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Captain John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is an American former astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer, who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to make six space flights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service,[1] and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969, he became the first person to orbit the Moon alone during Apollo 10. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974–1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004.
Plus, the guy's not an actor - he's doing all this in real time on the first take on the world's biggest stage. You know - how hard can it be to be some Hollywood actor and be filmed over the course of hundreds of takes and wind up looking cool?
By cool now, i'm assuming you mean actual temperature? Like ice cold?
Plus, the guy's not an actor - he's doing all this in real time on the first take on the world's biggest stage. You know - how hard can it be to be some Hollywood actor and be filmed over the course of hundreds of takes and wind up looking cool?
JFK gave him a run for his money.
Adam Yauch
p.s.-- Freddie Mercury is a different kind of cool. When I watch the video linked below I can't help thinking that he is the personification of the Gay Alpha Male...
Freddie Mercury--Somebody to Love - ( New Window )
JFK was a piece of shit.
My answer is Bill Gates. He is saving an absurd amount of lives around the globe.
If we're going more with the external, then Kerouac.
Obama was cool, but serving in the USMC during the 80's, most fellow Marines believed Ronald Reagan was cool also.
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You must be 20-something. :)
Obama was cool, but serving in the USMC during the 80's, most fellow Marines believed Ronald Reagan was cool also.
I'd say Reagan was a cool President. And even though I wasn't alive at the time (surprisingly), from what I know of Teddy Roosevelt - he seemed pretty cool as well. In fact, if I was to sit down and have a conversation with any president, he'd be at or near the top.
Stitch Jones.
Seriously? I thought 80's jar heads and a good many thereafter despised Regan for his failure to heed warnings prior to Beruit.
As far as being cool, I remember Regan as being a square's square. He was mocked from a fashion point with his brown and plaid suits and absurd black slicked back hair. Prior to being elected Governor many people in Hollywood hated him and behind his back laughed at his marriage to Nancy who was legandary in Tinsle Town for all the wrong reasons. In his second term Regan was routinely mocked as being senile, which years latter was confirmed to be early onset dementia. I'm not knocking ol' Dutch but like most famous people his legand fares far better than his life in real time. He was always thought of as a "tough guy" president, or a "cowboy" but I'm not sure many people thought he was cool.
Burt Reynolds
Snoop
Willie Nelson
Kitt Harington and Chris Hemsworth are next in line. Modern.
Burt Reynolds
Snoop
Willie Nelson
Damn, I hit enter before finishing my edit - NOT COOL.
Anyway, My definition is:
1. Oozing with charisma and talent.
2. Unique Lifestyle that they don't push, but everyone still wants to imitate.
3. Laidback and unmoved by criticism
A cool person IMO, cannot be anyone who is just plain nerdy or awkward, who pushes their beliefs/lifestyle on everyone, or who is constantly frustrated by or fights criticism.
Again my list was:
Bill D Williams
Burt Reynolds
Snoop
Willie Nelson
Sinatra and Dean Martin
Keano Reeves
Up there with Clint Eastwood, Redford for old school guys.
Damon, Clooney if your focusing on media figures.
Throw in the charity work with the persona and accomplishments. Can't convince me there us a better definition of "Cool".
Kitt Harington and Chris Hemsworth are next in line. Modern.
tv sitcom cool - Fonzi / trapper john
movie cool - Clint Eastwood
sports cool - Ali
hero cool - Gen. Patton
Tom would vote for him
Societal breakdown cool - Mel Gibson - Road Warrior
Broken down Soldier cool - Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
NBA Super fly cool - Clyde Frazier - 1973
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long" last cool - Mr Welch
Coolest bar none - Major Dick Winters - Easy Company
and James Dean ... man I don't get it there. Some of his acting was down right cringe worthy.
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Yes
Thanks?
Hell yeah!
JFK was a piece of shit.
My answer is Bill Gates. He is saving an absurd amount of lives around the globe.
If we're going more with the external, then Kerouac.
Aren't you the same dude who said his assassination wasn't that big of a deal? Did JFK cheat on your grandparents or something?
Years ago a pitcher through a fastball aimed right at Johnson's noggin. Waiting until the very last millisecond and without moving a single other muscle in his body, Johnson turned his head profile as the ball whizzed past, missing his face by a centimeter or two. And then he turned his head back just as calmly staring down the pitcher.
That to me was the definition of cool.
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Came here to post that.
Fred Astair, Snoop Dog, Sammy, Davis Jr.,
2 votes for Snoop made me do it