Talk:Kool-Aid

Problem
This kind of libel is preposterous. Jim Jones did not drink Kool-Aid, but the far inferior product Flavor Aid. Please correct this insanity at once! KoolAidMan 11:50, 8 April 2008 (EDT)
 * I guess you didn't read the second sentence... human  12:10, 8 April 2008 (EDT)

This side of the pond
We don't have Kool-Aid in Britain, yet the other day I heard a financial correspondent on the radio saying "I haven't been drinking the Wall Street Kool-Aid", and the presenter didn't even stop him to ask what that meant - just goes to show how far the phrase has spread. Totnesmartin 15:36, 14 November 2008 (EST)

Organization
Can we move all the CP-centric blather to the bottom, and, hopefully, minimize it, also? As it is, the article veers off radically into weird field right after the TOC.  ħ uman  18:48, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
 * If no one else cares, I am going to rip out the stoopid CP jokes from this article and leave the high quality bones behind.  ħ uman  23:06, 20 March 2009 (EDT)
 * K said in an edit summary: "(too much focus on CP? And where is it about winning a debate on CP?)" K, feel free to drain the article of any of that blather about debating on CP. Looks like I might have forgotten to do it... Perhaps it could all be cut to a CP: space article if it's relevant there...  20:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

De-CPification
I have De-CPified the entire article. I still have fuck-all idea about what to do with that "defender" stuff, but it's sort of funny in its own special way so I kept it in. 13:07, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

The true origin
It would probably be more accurate to say that the term originated with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The connection to Jonestown is dubious; for one thing, the poison Kool-Aid was pretty much forced on them, whereas the electric Kool-Aid of the Merry Pranksters was something people could take or leave at their choice, much as people choose to accept or renounce ideas. Tisane (talk) 21:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * That may be the origin, but the current reference is pretty much always to Jonestown. The clear implication is cultic thinking - David Gerard (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, interesting point, but really nothing to do with the modern usage. Also, back in the day, people were always spiking other people's food or drinks with LSD "as a favor". 03:15, 14 July 2010 (UTC)