Are you saying that no one can call you a troll? How does that even make sense? Do you expect us to know you personally based on your screen name?
Are you saying prison time is never an acceptable punishment serious domestic abuse? What if a man beats his wife so badly that she dies, would you still maintain your objection?
Oh, he won’t stay away.
Keep digging, KT. That’s what you’re good at.
Wait, you mean he was lying about having wasted too much time already? My illusions are getting shattered like a motherfuck over here.
I know. It’s hardest when the great ones fall.
Does anyone remember when “drinking the Kool-Aid” was edgy? Nowadays it just seems like another term for “sheeple.”
Oddly enough, Jim Jones used Flavor Aid. Fucking cheap bastard. All those followers, and he couldn’t even afford actual Kool Aid.
Seriously, that’s like having a death cult around oreos and then feeding them hydrox.
Actually he did get Kool Aid:
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(The video has been taken down but this screen shot is a close up of the contents of food crates that Jim Jones was showing for some documentary made before the mass suicide/murder)
Now why Flavor Aid gets the sole blame? It was reported that boxes of the stuff were seen at the time of the incident but looking at what Jim Jones had makes it very likely that Kool Aid was also used as part of the deadly mix.
C’mon now, we both know the bait and switch. You dangle a few boxes of grape flavored sugar packets with empty promises of an omniscient pitcher that will crash through walls and give you endless delicious refreshment, and how can people resist? Then BAM!, you give them something else. Classic bait and switch.
L Ron Hubbard tried that with Zima. It didn’t work that well, because, well, it’s L Ron Hubbard, it’s Zima, and I just made that up.
Zima! Oh, I was attempting to forget that.
Just an attempt by Coors to sell piss beer in clear form. ![]()
Coors finally removed the plug in 2008!
Do you own stock in Kraft Foods or something? That’s got to be at least the eighth time you mentioned Kool Aid in this thread. Did it not occur to you, like around the fifth or sixth time maybe, that you were just plain overselling it? Now I’m no marketing guru or anything like that, but I have to think reminding people of its association with Jonestown is just not gonna move product. Linking it to Ray Rice’s deplorable behavior also not terribly wise. I hope you’re not getting paid for this shoddy service to the brand.
I really doubt that Jim Jones was the true origin of the phrase anyway. No doubt the Jonestown massacre popularised it, but Ken Kesey’s book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was published in 1968, and Wilson and Shea’s trilogy Illuminatus! came out in 1975, and they both described instances (real and fictional respectively) of mass dosing of people with LSD through consumption of fruit drink. Jonestown wasn’t till 1978.
Wait, um, an important quibble. Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was Tom Wolfe. Granted, it’s a non-fiction book, but I don’t think you can credit the book to Ken Kesey.
Uh, yeah, Tom Wolfe.
It’s the latest thing: Product Placement in posts on Message Boards. Excuse me me now while I go and have an EGGO for breakfast.
That EGGO would sure taste great with Aunt Jemima brand syrup, wouldn’t it?
Racist.
It’s just a favorite thing for people to nitpick when people use the “drink the Kool-Aid” meme, even though it’s wrong. Like people who insist on “correcting” octopuses to octopi.
Exactly. Everyone knows the correct form is “octopies”.