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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by rock art a true [Cavemen sitting beside rock art]

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necessity if you have any intention of classing up your cave alright check out

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this passage...

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alright how would you change

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the below underlined portion of the passage if at all not cool and here the

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not cool the perfect thing to call someone who is not going with the flow [Man on fire]

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or the human torch okay if you happen to know him well which we do and in all

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honesty he's pretty fantastic alright time to check out the passage to see how [Man reading a book]

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this one is being used he said he did it because he thought it would be cool and

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he pleaded guilty to one felony violation of the act and paid a hefty

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fine in restitution not cool seems like Gainey's future is [Ganey standing in street and police officer appears]

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so bright he's got to wear handcuffs not school indeed well let's check out the

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answer choices and see if there's a better way to go here should it be

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changed to cool while not shockingly cool is the complete opposite of not

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cool so we're doing quite the 180 here but really having to pay a hefty fine is [Man pays fine to officer]

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cool well it might work if we're being just plain sarcastic but sarcasm has a

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tendency to miss the mark when it appears only in right see some of our [Girl reading books]

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study guides for reference we're gonna go ahead and rule that be

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how about Cena unforgivable what is this well it seems a bit heavy-handed for [Man performing bicep curls]

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this paragraph and probably more something our grandmother might say as

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she shakes her head and rolls her eyeballs back into her skull in her day

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vandals ask permission before defacing art so alright well no got to be [Boy with spray paint]

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something better than this one beep not cool man

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okay now we're going the complete opposite of our Grammy [Grandma reading]

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this is way too informal and not in sync with the rest of the passage you can't

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really see this author saying it in fact we can't really see this author [Author hiding behind curtain]

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at all let me show himself with Lizzy hiding

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alright well if it's none of those three then the sentence must have been fine to

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begin with yeah by saying not cool the author is using the vandals own words

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against him insinuating that while he may have thought it would be cool to [Man drawing on wall]

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carve up some priceless art the punishment handed out as a result of his

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behavior was most certainly not cool course in our book no there's no one to [Man standing behind bars]

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live in our granny you ever seen her cook up a bowl of our favorite matzo [Grandma cooking matzo ball soup]

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ball soup that girl is on fire

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