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How many of you actually know what "Drinking the Kool-Aid" means

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Muy
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6:38p, 10/8/07
Without looking it up of course.
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OKC~Ag
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6:43p, 10/8/07
only an old fart would know that...
check out jones, cult and mass suicide/murder in Africa etc...
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Scriffer
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6:44p, 10/8/07
South America, but close.
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6:46p, 10/8/07
It refers to Jim Jones and his People's Temple. When he conned them into committing suicide (mass murder?) in Guyana in '78, most of them died due to poison mixed into Kool-Aid. Ever since, "drinking Kool-Aid" refers to mindlessly following a person and/or idea.

Do I pass?
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Muy
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6:46p, 10/8/07
True, and that is definitely the most recent, memorable event that "Kool-Aid drinking" can be associated with.

I didn't realize this though:

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The idiomatic expression "drinking the Kool-Aid" was originally a reference to the Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with novelist Ken Kesey who in the early 1960s travelled around the United States and held events called "Acid Tests", where LSD-laced Kool-Aid was passed out to the public (LSD was legal at that time). Those who "drank the Kool-Aid" passed the "Acid Test." "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in that context meant accepting the LSD drug culture, and the Pranksters' "turned on" point of view.


Damn! LSD was legal? The 60's was truly the worst decade in the history of this country.
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I_bleed_maroon
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6:47p, 10/8/07
For you old school, The Judy's had a great song about it, "Guyana Punch."

Yes, I am old.
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Muy
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6:48p, 10/8/07
Didn't the Judy's play in Aggieland quite a bit? I think they were Houston-based. We had them play at a party one time.
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6:48p, 10/8/07
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South America, but close.


I laughed.
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ACOBQ87
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6:48p, 10/8/07
Muy,

Hadn't heard about the phrase's association with LSD. Interesting...
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Muy
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6:48p, 10/8/07
I thought the same thing when he said "South Africa".
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6:48p, 10/8/07
Jim Jones Guyana "Come to me my children" Mass suicide

It would refer to blind devotion
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I_bleed_maroon
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6:49p, 10/8/07
Yep, the Judy's played CS quite a few times in the 80's.

Muy you must be my age.
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Muy
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6:50p, 10/8/07
I'm a man! I'm 40!
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Muy
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6:50p, 10/8/07
Red Skye
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6:50p, 10/8/07
LSD is less harmful than alcohol...
Granted, you do enough of it you go insane.
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I_bleed_maroon
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6:51p, 10/8/07
Oh yeah, I forgot!
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Muy
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6:51p, 10/8/07
Going through life seeing tracers is no way to live, although it'd be a blast driving down the street at night during Christmas.
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6:54p, 10/8/07
You have to do a damn lot of it to see tracers for the rest of your life. Or drop it into your eye, which is idiotic.
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Muy
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6:56p, 10/8/07
Okay, now your knowledge about this is scaring me.

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eATMup-Reveille
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6:58p, 10/8/07
Unfortuantely for them, the potbangers there were shot.
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Muy
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6:59p, 10/8/07
That's right. The sunshine pumpers just drank the Kool-Aid, while the potbangers were shot trying to run and find a new leader.

Friggin' CLASSIC!
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7:01p, 10/8/07
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Okay, now your knowledge about this is scaring me.

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Sorry.
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Rodo
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7:19p, 10/8/07
There is nothing wrong with the occasional tab of acid.

Rodo
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GiveUsRoom
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7:33p, 10/8/07
I always think of the Judy's as well. I have an MP3 of that tune (along with some of their others).

Kevin Murray gave a great interview (one of the few from him I've seen) about 10 years removed from school. He had some great quotes about Jackie in there, one of them was "it was like, drink the Kool-aid, drink the Kool-aid."
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7:42p, 10/8/07
IBM is so old he knew Burger King as a prince
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redis93
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7:43p, 10/8/07
Muy,

Yes they used to come to CS often...I remember seeing them at Parthenon a few times. For those of you younger than 35....The Parthenon turned into The Tap I believe.
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7:44p, 10/8/07

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7:47p, 10/8/07


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amirite?
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Baron de Bastrop
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7:49p, 10/8/07
Depending on the context or nuance, "Drinking Kool-Aid" can simply mean being a "passionate" supporter, not necessarily a "mindless" one. I've seen it in at least one famous business quote that way.



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Naked Hiker
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7:50p, 10/8/07
wait, i thought it was that you drink koolaid when there's a comet coming through earth's atmosphere to fly up behind the comet and live in a place where the aggies always go undefeated?
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Tex Ag 81
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7:50p, 10/8/07
Jonestown
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DecadePlan
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7:54p, 10/8/07
Saw a special on the Jonestown Massacre - turns out they didn't use Kool Aid, they used a knock-off called Flavor Aid.

Thought you might wanna use that bit of trivia on your next hot date.
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mv09
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7:55p, 10/8/07
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Saw a special on the Jonestown Massacre - turns out they didn't use Kool Aid, they used a knock-off called Flavor Aid.

Im pretty sure they sell Flavor-Aid at HEB or something that sounds very similar to it.
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7:55p, 10/8/07
Decade Plan is correct, it was grape Flavor Aid.
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GiveUsRoom
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7:58p, 10/8/07
And for the sports angle, I think Jim Jones' grandson is on the basketball team at University of San Diego. Harbaugh's stop prior to Stanford.
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