Flies writes:
Well...to be even a bit more specific...when Buz refers to drinking the kool-aid (which I agree is quite crappy), he's relating the drinking of the beverage to the 1978 Jonestown mass suicides/murders, in which the followers of Jim Jones (leader of the Peoples Temple Agriculture Project, located in Guyana) drank a beverage (purported to be kool-aid...but it actually was not) laced with cyanide (along with a few others "additives").......
And perhaps the reason "kool-aid" took off so well in the vernacular at the time of the Jonestown Massacre was due to Mr. Wolfe's very popular 1968 account of Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, published under the title of "The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test". "Are you ready to take the electric acid kool-aid test?" read the sign at most of their events, encouraging folks to try acid.
In any case, this time the derogatory term "Obamabot koolaid drinkers" and such are just more childish ploys by many of those unable to accept that, indeed, on this January 20th, the United States had once again a reason to feel a sense of pride. It looks like the Age Of Celebrating The Stupid might be ending.
- xongsmith
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