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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Overuse of Kool-Aid
ENOUGH.
Ok, I get it. It was even cute at first. Jim Jones brainwashed a bunch of people and made them all drink poison Kool-Aid. Therefore, when you are trying to indicate that someone is following conventional wisdom that you consider to be incorrect, you mention that they are "drinking the Kool-Aid." i.e. that they are adopting a herd-like, cultish mentality couched in ignorance and antithetical to the light of reason. Please note well: IT STOPPED BEING CUTE AND CREATITIVE ONCE EVERYONE STARTING USING IT. I can't go five minutes without hearing/reading about someone "drinking the George W. Bush Kool-Aid" or "accepting the Michael Moore Kool-Aid" or "sipping from the Michigan Kool-Aid." Arrgghh. Sometimes people have different opinions than you. Sometimes they share those opinions with other like-minded individuals. Every time this happens is not an occasion to note that you are so much more correct than they are that they resemble the brainwashed. People can support a football team or a political ideology that differs from yours without rising to the level of suicidal stupidity. Most importantly, it is no longer cute, creatitive, funny, or original. Thank you for your time. Last edited by albionmoonlight : 08-22-2005 at 03:23 PM. |
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08-22-2005, 03:22 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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I'm not drinking that albionmoonlight Kool-Aid.
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08-22-2005, 03:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Internets
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"Oh Yeah!"
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08-22-2005, 03:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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08-22-2005, 03:27 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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Huh huh. He said creatitive. Twice.
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08-22-2005, 03:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burlington, VT USA
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Remember, politically correct Kool-Aid has no sugar, no color, and tastes like organic veggies.
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08-22-2005, 03:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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I prefer Country Time lemonade.
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08-22-2005, 03:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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I like KoolAid
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08-22-2005, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Houston, Texas
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They started selling Splenda in big packages, so I don't think drinking the SlapBone kool-aid is quite as unhealthful as it once was.
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08-22-2005, 03:40 PM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I'll drink to School Aides. Cheers!
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08-22-2005, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
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I used to love Sunshine Punch Kool-Aid.. unfortunately, they stopped making it about 20 years ago.
Fuckers...
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08-22-2005, 05:16 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Sugar-Free Kook-Aid is a great soft sub for people that overdrink softdrinks like me.
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08-22-2005, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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According to this, you might be able to recreate that magic on your own with a little patience and, of course, sugar to taste  Enjoy  http://www.x-entertainment.com/kool-...unch/index.php edit to add: apparently, reproducing the flavor correctly is a matter of some difference of opinion. Scroll down far enough & you'll see that this guy has a different recipe. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/P...70/PACKAGE.HTM
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08-22-2005, 05:36 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Don't throw "drinking the Kool-Aid" under the buss.
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08-22-2005, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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Thank you albion. I had never used such an expression. I will now use it at some point tonight, tomorrow, and every day thereafter.
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08-22-2005, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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08-22-2005, 10:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Midwest
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I teach 3rd grade...I'm drinking Kool-Aid all the damn time.
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08-22-2005, 10:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Funny, because that sounds a lot like something the Nazis would have said too!
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08-22-2005, 10:35 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Hog Country
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I have actually never heard of this phrase being used in this way. Go figure.
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08-22-2005, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Thunderdome
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When I drink my Chicago Bears Kool-Aid, it fully justifies its intended meaning.
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08-22-2005, 11:03 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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Agree 100%. Whenever I see someone use that phrase, I know they have no idea what they're talking about. It's just a cliche people use when they can't actually come up with an argument.
Same thing like saying "I would respond but it isn't worth it" = "I can't come up witha good argument so I'll personally attack you instead" And about a dozen over used cliches that mean they are clueless. And on a related note, I love Kool-Aid! Last edited by sabotai : 08-22-2005 at 11:04 PM. |
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08-22-2005, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Oakland, CA
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Tell them you're a rebel and you drink Tang.
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08-23-2005, 07:15 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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Mix the powder with water? I have other people do that for me! |
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08-23-2005, 07:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
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You know, for some reason, that is one of those things I never bothered to google.. I haven't had kool-aid in years so, worth a shot. Thanks...
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08-23-2005, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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By golly, I do believe you've hit upon the exact reason the phrase is used. And for that purpose, I find it to be reasonably effective.
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08-23-2005, 08:09 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Berry Blue was my all time favorite flavor. Purplesaurus Rex and Sharkleberry Fin were up there too.
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08-23-2005, 08:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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I'll tell you what dream used to scare me as a kid, used to actually totally give me nightmares, remeber those kool-aid comercials? where that, no that big talking bowl of punch, he would come crashing through your fucking wall in the living room you wouldn't even know know he would just BOOUF!!! (Exploding Sound) oh yeah!, oh yeah!, oh yeah!!!right, and the little kids were all excited, YES, YES!!! and then they would drink out of him after debris fell in his open dumb head, he would pour himself, OH YEAH! OH YEAH!...him and his crazy tights...I don't like that, I don't like when juice wears tights, it's a horrible combination, a bowl of juice wearing tights, fuck drinking out of him, If that was me I'd be like oh no no no no no, you fix that wall before dad gets home from work, hes gonna beat me with a belt he's not gonna believe a talking bowl of fruit punch came in here, you stupid idiot, yeah comin' through the wall is real fuckin' cool, using the front door is cool don't touch me you drink! don't touch me you giant beverage, you are sweating or condensating I will kick you in the tights and you will go down your very top-heavy, you glass bitch, you glass bastard! OH YEAH! Oh No!
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08-23-2005, 03:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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I don't care much if someone is in George Bush's Kool Aid or Michael Moore's Kool Aid, but I do hate it when people get all up in my Kool Aid.
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08-23-2005, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Port Angeles, WA or Helm's Deep
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The license plate better not come up under your name, albion, or you got some 'splainin' to do...
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08-23-2005, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Combine this with the Dane Cook thread, and it makes much more sense. |
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08-23-2005, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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That wasn't poison in ageofquarrel's Kool-aid.
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08-23-2005, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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Haha, truly one of his best bits |
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01-17-2006, 07:02 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Throwing someone "Under the Bus" is starting to hit "Kool Aid" type proportions.
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01-17-2006, 07:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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when did drinking the Kool-Aid, jump the shark?
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01-17-2006, 07:21 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Its hard to say what is the best post in this thread. ageofquarrel's is definitely up there. I imagine him angrily pounding out the words on his keyboard as his boyhood memories come flooding back and he finally tell that "bowl of punch" what he really thinks. At the opposite end of the spectrum is JG with his two-word zinger. Impeccable timing. I think the award, however, must go to Surtt. The way he misspelled bus gives his post the extra little twist that puts it over the top.
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01-17-2006, 09:53 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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*backs silently out of the hole in the wall* |
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01-17-2006, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Astoria, NY, USA
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he all up in the Kool Aid and he don't even know the flava.
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