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bravenrace UltimaDork
10/29/13 2:05 p.m.

Anybody ever heard that term?

Swank Force One MegaDork
10/29/13 2:06 p.m.

Yep. No idea where it originated. Hell, i even use it.

GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/29/13 2:07 p.m.

Swank Force One wrote: Yep. No idea where it originated. Hell, i even use it.

+1

1988RedT2 UberDork
10/29/13 2:08 p.m.

Heard it many times. Probably used it more than once myself.

1988RedT2 UberDork
10/29/13 2:09 p.m.

A quick google "cool beans etymology" yields the following: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cool_beans

sachilles SuperDork
10/29/13 2:09 p.m.

Yep.

bravenrace UltimaDork
10/29/13 2:10 p.m.

A guy I work with told me that it originated in Akron Ohio and that only people in Akron say that. His reasoning was that he moved from Akron to Cleveland and nobody in Cleveland that he met was familiar with the term, so WALAH! It must be only in Akron! So I thought I'd tap into the infinite wisdom of the interwebs to find out if he was correct.

ransom GRM+ Memberand UberDork
10/29/13 2:11 p.m.

Yep, have heard it all the time for years, but only knew the "spiffy", "dandy", "that's good" and so forth connotations, and not any drug-related origins...

sachilles SuperDork
10/29/13 2:12 p.m.

Walah might be unique though.

fasted58 PowerDork
10/29/13 2:13 p.m.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool%20beans

some say post WWII or 60's-70's...

Cheech: Hey man, look at this car made out of weed!

Chong: Oh cool beans, man!

toad9977 Reader
10/29/13 2:20 p.m.

Cool Beans

alfadriver PowerDork
10/29/13 2:24 p.m.

I use the term all the time.

And I've never lived in Akron.

RossD PowerDork
10/29/13 2:28 p.m.

'Cool Beans' here in Wisconsin, too.

bravenrace UltimaDork
10/29/13 2:28 p.m.

sachilles wrote: Walah might be unique though.

Hey, how would you spell it?

bravenrace UltimaDork
10/29/13 2:29 p.m.

alfadriver wrote: I use the term all the time. And I've never lived in Akron.

That might be a good thing..

Powar SuperDork
10/29/13 2:32 p.m.

toad9977 wrote: Cool Beans

I came here to post this. Thank you.

bgkast GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
10/29/13 2:33 p.m.

My High School girlfriend used to say that all the time. She had never lived in Akron either.

ultraclyde SuperDork
10/29/13 2:34 p.m.

was a very common phrase in GA about 10 years ago.... always vaguely annoyed me.

Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/29/13 2:42 p.m.

Yup.

914Driver MegaDork
10/29/13 2:44 p.m.

Army girl I know says it all the time, slightly annoying.

alfadriver PowerDork
10/29/13 2:46 p.m.

If you are annoyed by "cool beans" what about "rad"?

Or tubeular?

dude.

bitchen.

totally......

toddk New Reader
10/29/13 2:53 p.m.

I know,,, RIGHT.

Jane Soliman Associate Editor
10/29/13 2:54 p.m.

Cool Beans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOUrLn1FFCA

ditchdigger SuperDork
10/29/13 3:44 p.m.

GF brought this bag back from london a decade ago. I saw it recently and thought it had been 20 years since I last heard someone say that and am guilty of using it since