[MeshugeMikey]

Im reminded of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFxj59Fa9o&feature=kp

[Dr. Ursus]

101-LAZ!

[headstamp 2]

“That’s tight, man, that’s tight”

[yarddog]

I would guess 90% of those on the list are about as cool as a swallow tailed straight jacket.

I do agree with Steve McQueen, Buster Keaton, Mae West and a couple more. Add Jack Benny to the list.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Walt Whitman? Wasn’t he a pedophile to the point where he was tarred and feathered and run out of town? And Madonna? What? Please, there is absolutely nothing cool about that jackass whatsoever, but I assume she must have spread her legs to get on this list just like she did with the RnR hall of fame.

[Free Vulcan]

Yeah I’ll pass. We’ve sacrificed this country on the altar of pop culture and what is cool. Sorry if I don’t want to play anymore.

[Navy Patriot]

Only two, Obama and the Wookie.

[lee martell]

Sidney Potier, Bill Murray, Weird Al Yankovich, George Noory,
Will & Kate aka, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Dr. Bill Wattenburg; Radio Scientist.

[Lx]

You know a hipster doofus wrote this with some of the names that are on here such as, Afrika Bambaataa. Oh yeah, he’s really cool, who is he again? I vaguely remember him from the 80s.
Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young?

First 50:

The Roots of Cool

Fred Astaire

Bix Beiderbecke

Louise Brooks

James Cagney

Frederick Douglass

Greta Garbo

Ernest Hemingway

Zora Neale Hurston

Jack Johnson

Duke Kahanamoku

Buster Keaton

HL Mencken

Georgia O’Keeffe

Dorothy Parker

Bessie Smith

Willie “The Lion” Smith

Mae West

Walt Whitman

Bert Williams

The Birth of Cool

Lauren Bacall

James Baldwin

Humphrey Bogart

Marlon Brando

Lenny Bruce

William S Burroughs

Raymond Chandler

Gary Cooper

Miles Davis

James Dean

Duke Ellington

Dizzy Gillespie

Woody Guthrie

Audrey Hepburn

Billie Holiday

Jack Kerouac

Gene Krupa

Robert Mitchum

Thelonius Monk

Anita O’Day

Charlie Parker

Jackson Pollock

Elvis Presley

Frank Sinatra

Barbara Stanwyck

Muddy Waters

John Wayne

Hank Williams

Lester Young

Cool and the Counterculture

Muhammad Ali

The next 50:
James Brown

Jim Brown

Johnny Cash

Angela Davis

Joan Didion

Faye Dunaway

Bob Dylan

Clint Eastwood

Walt Frazier

Marvin Gaye

Deborah Harry

Jimi Hendrix

Bruce Lee

Steve McQueen

Bill Murray

Paul Newman

Jack Nicholson

Bonnie Raitt

Lou Reed

Carlos Santana

Patti Smith

Susan Sontag

Hunter S Thompson

John Travolta

Andy Warhol

Malcolm X

Frank Zappa

The Legacy of Cool

Afrika Bambaataa

Jean-Michel Basquiat

David Byrne

Kurt Cobain

Johnny Depp

Missy Elliott

Tony Hawk

Chrissie Hynde

Jay-Z

Steve Jobs

Michael Jordan

Madonna

Willie Nelson

Prince

Susan Sarandon

Selena

Tupac Shakur

Sam Shepard

Bruce Springsteen

Jon Stewart

Quentin Tarantino

Benicio del Toro

Tom Waits

Neil Young

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593207/Who-real-kings-cool-National-Portrait-Gallery-runs-exhibition-100-coolest-Americans-including-Steve-McQueen-Frank-Sinatra-Miles-Davis.html#ixzz2xxlBalMb

[pallmallman]

An injustice screams out that flaws this list beyond repair....namely the absence of the King Of Cool...Dean Martin....shame on the list makers...however I do heartily approve of Mitchum being included.....but dammit...the list needs Dino!!!

[real saxophonist]

A very good friend of my dad had a name for me: 'Cool'. It was always funny when our families visited each other. 'Hey, Cool.'

I see Anita O'Day is on that list. I met her once, we were playing the same venue.
She was Scary Nasty.

[JoeProBono]

[CrazyIvan]

Definitely Steve McQueen. I helped move the National Motorcycle Museum a few years ago. Getting to handle some of his toys, including his old ratty Indian chopper, was the high point for me.

[Michael.SF.]

My two cents:

Should be removed for suicide (most uncool thing to do): Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Cobain

Should be removed for self-destructive behavior (tantamount to suicide): Hank Williams, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix

Should be removed just on general principles: Madonna, Jim Brown, Angela Davis, Prince, Susan Sarandon, Faye Dunaway, Malcolm X, Carlos Santana, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson

Being killed makes you cool? Questionable sympathy votes: Selena Tupac Shakur

Who?? : Cool and the Counterculture, Afrika Bambaataa, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Joan Didion

Surprised Missing: Jim Morrison

Missing: Tina Turner, Ray Charles, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Johnny Carson, John Lee Hooker, Ringo (hey, he was just along for the ride)

[truth_seeker]

Way 2 meny kneegrows

Whut about surfers, the Kingston Trio, racing drivers, astronauts, Donald Bren, car customizers, etc.?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Kurt Cobain"

"Cool" people don't kill themselves.

[Third Person]

[bobby.223]

‘Cool’ as in the old definition: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin.....and I’m sure a couple of others who have slipped the old mellon.

[Steve_Seattle]

Notorious omissions:

Hank Aaron (baseball)
Tony Lema (golf)
Jimmy Demaret (golf)
Gary Snyder (poet)
Walker Percy (novelist/essayist)
Alexander Calder (sculptor)
Perry Como (singer)
Ellsworth Kelly (painter)
Edward Hopper (painter)
Sonny Jurgensen (football)
Phil Hill (auto racer)
Masten Gregory (auto racer)
Everett Dirksen (U.S. Senator)
Pat Summerall (football)
Tommy Lee Jones (actor)
James Garner (actor)
Levon Helm (musician)
Mike Love (singer - Beach Boys)

I'd swap these with about 20 people on the list.

[CatherineofAragon]

John Travolta...really?

He’s always seemed like a chubby dork to me.