How many cool points do I need to reach the coolness of Zap?
Maybe some. But then again, you may not need any. Most people misunderstand the way cool points work.
Cool points work very much like points that aren't cool: AD&D points. Everyone gets their initial cool points tally when they are born, and then as they "level up" through life (at birthdays and such) their cool level starts to go either up, or down (this is one way that these points are different from AD&D points, which do not go down). If they listen to cool music, have cool hair, hang out with cool people and smoke cigarettes, their cool level goes up. If they do too much math, wear bow ties, get into too much credit card debt or pick their nose and eat it in public, their cool level goes down.
So cool points exist to even the score. As people get more cool points, it boosts their cool stats. They can allocate these points in any way they'd like. For instance, say their hair isn't cool, but their clothes are, because they wear leather and spikes all the time. Say this same person has 7 cool points. Obviously, this person would want to apply the majority (maybe all) of these points to their hair. Of course, no one would know their hair was significantly cooler just by looking, but the person could then make a sign with paper and markers and tape it to the back of their shirt, saying something like "6 cool points credited to hair". Then people would understand, and give the hair the coolness respect and awe it otherwise would lack.
Why 6 points and not 7? Glad you asked! Say this person doesn't smoke, he or she could apply a cool point to "smokes" and make a note of that. In that case, he or she could hang out with people smoking cigarettes in a circle, looking cool.
The other use of cool points, for those who are already beyond cool and have no need for them, is to redeem them for my coolness wisdom. That usage for cool points was mentioned before.
Now, I don't know what your current coolness level is, so you may already be getting close to the coolness that is ZAP (unlikely, but entirely possible). But just for in case you need them, and to get you off to a good start, I'm giving you a pre-emptive starter pack of exactly 3 cool points. Congratulations, and use them as needed.
ZAP