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[spncrazyfan]

So um, people have been talking about getting this draft thing. Whatever that is about. But yeah, um, so I'm on that list too

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[sand_wormie]

Becky... [Everyone is going. Luke doesn't like it.]

They might not make you a soldier. Maybe you don't have to be on the lines.

[spncrazyfan]

But drafts are usually about making people be soldiers. At least, that was the purpose back home. Canon fodder.

Luke I don't want to be canon fodder!

[sand_wormie]

They won't make you be cannon fodder! I saw one of the notices! They want medics and stuff too. Technicians.

[spncrazyfan]

[okay, that may be a bit better. She kinda stopped really at the whole "You've been Drafted" part of the notice]

Maybe they can just stick me behind a computer? I could do that...

[sand_wormie]

[He really hopes he's right...]

Yeah. They'll probably test to see what you can do, and if you just do badly with the physical stuff and better with computers, they could do that.

So you have to study the computer stuff.

[spncrazyfan]

Oh, I know I'll fail the physical stuff. I don't even like sit-ups.

[sand_wormie]

Then be good at computers. Be really cool at them. [Luke that is not how you use that word.]

[spncrazyfan]

Okay, I can do that. Okay.

[she smiles a bit]

Cool means okay, remember?

[sand_wormie]

You can.

I thought it meant good. Stylish.

[spncrazyfan]

Probably going to put a big kink in our travel plans now.

It can, as a noun. When you use it as a verb, it's more like saying that you'll do okay. You could use 'awesome' as a noun though to mean good.

[sand_wormie]

Yeah... But don't worry about that. You'll get more experience with ships, probably. [Positive face, keep it like that...]

Where does 'cool off' fit in?

[spncrazyfan]

I guess. Hey, if I get on a ship, you could always sneak on with me?

And that's when you are using cool to mean what it really means by a temperature. If you want someone to cool off, or cool down, you say it when they are angry, which people look like they are hot when they are yelling and stuff.

[sand_wormie]

[He wrinkles his nose] They'd find me and put me in the brig. Being a stowaway only really works in stories. [...it's been drummed into him.]

We use it like that back home. Becky, why does a word you have to use that often get turned into slang like that? Really vague slang with weird rules, even?

[spncrazyfan]

Yeah, that probably isn't really how you want to travel.

I'm not sure, really. I think people think they are being super clever when they make them up, and after awhile it's just absorbed into culture.