"Too cool for school"

“Too cool for school” is a popular rhyme, meaning that school is too straitlaced for some people. “If you’re hip, you’re just too cool for school!” was printed in Dorothy Kilgallen’s “Voice of Broadway” newspaper column on September 19, 1951.

“You were just too cool for school” is a lyric in the Eagles’ rock song “James Dean” (1975). The “too cool for school” saying became popular in the 1970s, and there were several trademarks in the 1980s.

19 September 1951, Indianapolis (IN) News, “Voice of Broadway” by Dorothy Kilgallen, pg. 34, col. 7:
Lionel Hampton turned down a chance to lecture at a West Coast university on the lexicon of jazz. He told the profs he couldn’t figure out how to define the language of the hipsters without employing other unintelligible terms. (If you’re hip, you’re just too cool for school!)

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9. March 1963, The Alabama Citizen (Tuscaloosa, AL), “Teen Talk,” pg. 2, col. 3:
N’PORT TEEN TALK
1. Alvin and Eva are too cool for school.

16 March 1963, The Alabama Citizen (Tuscaloosa, AL), “Northport Teen Talk,” pg. 7, cols. 4-5:
Emma Ware and Carl Neal are too cool for school.

27 October 1970. The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), pg. 9, col. 4:
Too Cool for School
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)—A Saudi Arabian government order prohibits girls in miniskirts and boys with long hair from attending school classes.

23 May 1975, Evening Journal (Wilmington, DE), “Rock, and all that,” sec. 2, pg. 31, col. 8:
The clincher is the lyrics, with phrases like, “You were just too cool for school.”
(The rock song “James Dean” by the Eagles.—ed.)

23 November 1977, Seattle (WA) Times, “Their education was several degrees below” by Sally Temple, pg. D4, col. 5:
SOUTH CENTRAL—About 200 Foster High School students found it “too cool for school” Monday morning, so they made signs saying so and took their grievance up the street to the superintendent’s office.

30 August 1979, Honolulu (HI) Advertiser, “Back to school, sort of,” pg. A18, col. 4:
A rewrite of the old song, “School Days,” seems called for:

Truant days, truant days
We’re too cool for school days.

OCLC WorldCat record
FM-100 means Memphis music.
Publisher: Houston, TX : Starstream, ℗1981.
Edition/Format: Musical LP : 78 rpm : English
Contents:
Too cool for school (Slap)—

OCLC WorldCat record
Too Cool for School - Entrepreneurs have always loathed everything about the M.B.A. So why are so many suddenly going back to get one?
Author: Jay Finegan
Publisher: [Boston, MA : United Marine Pub., c1979-
Edition/Format: Article Article : English
Publication: Inc. 18, no. 14, (1996): 42
Database: ArticleFirst

OCLC WorldCat record
Party of Five : Claudia Too Cool for School.
Author: Debra Mostow Zakarin
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, 1997.
Edition/Format: Print book : English

OCLC WorldCat record
Too Cool for Skool
Author: Melanie Lynn McCarty
Publisher: Hernon, VA : the author, March 1998
Edition/Format: Print book : English
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
Melon of the zine Cutiepie describes playing hooky from school one day when she starts feeling sick in chemistry class. She takes the train to Washington, D.C., where she eats lunch in DuPont Circle, meets a Scientologist, and visits record stores. On the train home, she reads the missed connections ads in a newspaper. The zine is typewritten, with magazine clippings and original drawings.

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Word Mark T.C.F.S. TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 025. US 039. G & S: LADIES SPORTSWEAR, NAMELY, SKIRTS TOPS AND JEANS. FIRST USE: 19870313. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19870313
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Design Search Code 02.11.08 - Feet, human; Foot prints, human; Human feet, toes, imprints of feet or toes, legs; Imprints, feet or toes
Serial Number 73658453
Filing Date May 1, 1987
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition October 13, 1987
Registration Number 1483564
Registration Date April 5, 1988
Owner (REGISTRANT) PANTS R US CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 3829 SOUTH BROADWAY LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90037
(LAST LISTED OWNER) ISK INCORPORATED CORPORATION BY CHANGE OF NAME FROM CALIFORNIA
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Attorney of Record LORI N. BOATRIGHT
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR).
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Cancellation Date January 10, 2009

(Trademark)
Word Mark TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 016. US 037. G & S: STATIONERY, NAMELY, COLORED PENCILS, ERASERS, FOLDERS, JUMBO CLIPS, MAGNIFYING GLASSES, MARKERS, NOTEPADS, PAPER CLIPS, PAPER CLIP HOLDERS, PENCIL BOXES, PENCIL SHARPENERS, PENS, RULERS, SCISSORS, STAPLERS, STAPLES, TAPE AND TAPE DISPENSERS. FIRST USE: 19870911. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19870911
(ABANDONED) IC 028. US 022. G & S: TOYS, NAMELY, DOLLS AND TOY VEHICLES. FIRST USE: 19870911. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19870911
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 73685642
Filing Date September 17, 1987
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) MARVIN GLASS & ASSOCIATES COMPOSED OF JEFFREY D. BRESLOW, HARRY DISKO, WAYNE A. KUNA, HOWARD MORRISON, ROUBEN TERZIAN, GUNARS LICITIS, BURTON C. MEYER, JAMES F. COFFEE, ABILIA GLASS, MARJORIE ISAACSON, ALL CITIZENS OF THE USA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ILLINOIS 815 NORTH LASALLE STREET CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60610
Attorney of Record JOHN S. PACOCHA
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Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Abandonment Date August 10, 1988

(Trademark)
Word Mark TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
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Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 79104101
Filing Date August 30, 2011
Current Basis 66A
Original Filing Basis 66A
Published for Opposition August 28, 2012
Registration Number 4239748
International Registration Number 1055991
Registration Date November 13, 2012
Owner (REGISTRANT) TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL CORP. CORPORATION REPUBLIC OF KOREA 15, Chanumul-ro (Galhyeon-dong), Gwacheon-si Gyeonggi-do REPUBLIC OF KOREA
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