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To: Self-Retired who wrote (92932)	4/11/2001 8:14:23 PM
From: Tom M	Respond to of 436258

<our nostalgia for the past waiting to be rediscovered> COOL! recently, our nostalgia for the past has brought back to us: Standard Oil - used to be unCool as a monopoly, now COOL! put back together as XON! (Ditto for the phone company) MO/big tobacco - many phases of Cool/unCool - Joe Camel definitely COOL! - to our kids Competition - previously COOL! - now unCool - witness MSFT & INTC stifling of innovation (Got Market Cap?) Gold - once COOL!, recently an unCool barbaric relic - future...? Krammer's shirts - COOL!