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Ok, I admit it, I am out of the loop. Several times lately someone has posted that people were "drinking the Cool Aid". What the hell does that mean?
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I'm going to guess Jim Jones.
"Fearing retribution, the project members discuss their options. They reach a consensus to commit group suicide. Most appear to have committed suicide by drinking a grape drink laced with cyanide and a number of sedatives, including liquid Valium, Penegram and chloral hydrate. Some sources say it was Kool-Aid; others say FlaVor-Aid�. "
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Was a term from the 70's IIRC.
Had to do with puttin acid (Hippy Drug)in a cool-aid type drink.
Makes ya delusional/see things that ain't really there.
When it comes to choosing friends....I'm at an age where I'd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
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It is a referance to Jim Jones and the Guana murder suicides of about thirty years ago. The poison the were given was put in a fruit drink like kool aid. The victims all followed the commands of the "spiritual master and drank looking for whatever nirvana they had been promised. So the term Kool Aid drinking was coined as a person or persons who follow something or some one blindly no matter how off the wall, or stupid they are.
Declaration of Independance, in ENGLISH
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If you cannot or don't want to learn ENGLISH, go back to the third world cesspool you came from
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Buying into a particular idea, the implication being that the idea is bogus, and the Kool-Aid drinker is being fooled.
Jim Jones was a cult leader that inspired many of his followers to commit suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in Guyana.
Drinking the Kool-Aid is a reference to that event.
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Rick nailed it.
Hammered it flat and nailed it down.
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Even a blind mouse ... 
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
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Thank goodness this isn't another political thread!!
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Thank goodness this isn't another political thread!! ......and don't start....... Casey
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Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively...
Having said that, MAGA.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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arrrrrgh
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively...
Having said that, MAGA.
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George W made them do it of course...
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Thank you, one and all. I learned something new today.
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� Hammered it flat and nailed it down. Just realized that this expression may not be all that clear to everybody here. When I was a kid in the old rural South during the Depression, it was a common po' fo'ks practice to flatten empty cans and lids and nail 'em down over knot holes and rat holes. Really po' fo'ks even roofed buildings with flattened cans nailed in place like shingles. Thus the quoted expression became a personal figure of speech for me.
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....As an expression of being deluded "he's been drinking the cool aid" was being used before Jim Jones and the mass suicide associated with his cult occurred (mid 1970's). The expression began use earlier, connected to the Ken Kesley "Electric cool aid acid test". Journalist and talking heads began saying 'he's been drinking the cool aid" to described a person who displayed out of the ordinary thought or action. The expression was being used in the late 1960's, the Jim Jones debacle had yet to occur.
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Interesting. Learn something new every day.
When you hear it now, what does it mean to you? I never had that frame of reference.
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I wasn't all wrong 
When it comes to choosing friends....I'm at an age where I'd rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
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...To me it still refers to a person who displays delusional, or far out of the ordinarily accepted thinking/action.
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....As an expression of being deluded "he's been drinking the cool aid" was being used before Jim Jones and the mass suicide associated with his cult occurred (mid 1970's). The expression began use earlier, connected to the Ken Kesley "Electric cool aid acid test". Journalist and talking heads began saying 'he's been drinking the cool aid" to described a person who displayed out of the ordinary thought or action. The expression was being used in the late 1960's, the Jim Jones debacle had yet to occur. "We are all doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives . . ."
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