Overuse of Kool-Aid

[albionmoonlight]

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.

[Raiders Army]

I'm not drinking that albionmoonlight Kool-Aid.

[John Galt]

"Oh Yeah!"

[Coffee Warlord]

Most importantly, it is no longer cute, creatitive, funny, or original.

But is it cocky?

[Ksyrup]

Huh huh. He said creatitive. Twice.

[vtbub]

Remember, politically correct Kool-Aid has no sugar, no color, and tastes like organic veggies.

[Kodos]

I prefer Country Time lemonade.

[Draft Dodger]

I like KoolAid

[SlapBone]

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.

[Kodos]

I'll drink to School Aides. Cheers!

[Mustang]

I used to love Sunshine Punch Kool-Aid.. unfortunately, they stopped making it about 20 years ago.

Fuckers...

[Swaggs]

Sugar-Free Kook-Aid is a great soft sub for people that overdrink softdrinks like me.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I used to love Sunshine Punch Kool-Aid.. unfortunately, they stopped making it about 20 years ago.

Fuckers...

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-aid/reviews/sunshine_punch/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/Park/2070/PACKAGE.HTM

[Surtt]

Don't throw "drinking the Kool-Aid" under the buss.

[korme]

Thank you albion. I had never used such an expression. I will now use it at some point tonight, tomorrow, and every day thereafter.

[sterlingice]

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. Yes, but if you want to try and marginalize who you are arguing with and make it sound like their position is so stupid that only the brainwashed would believe it, clearly this is the cliche to use

SI

[ColtCrazy]

I teach 3rd grade...I'm drinking Kool-Aid all the damn time.

[Maple Leafs]

Funny, because that sounds a lot like something the Nazis would have said too!

[MJ4H]

I have actually never heard of this phrase being used in this way. Go figure.

[Raven Hawk]

When I drink my Chicago Bears Kool-Aid, it fully justifies its intended meaning.

[sabotai]

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!

[Rizon]

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.


Tell them you're a rebel and you drink Tang.

[Raiders Army]

Tell them you're a rebel and you drink Tang.
Or tell them you're rich and you drink Tang.

Mix the powder with water? I have other people do that for me!

[Mustang]

According to this, you might be able to recreate that magic on your own with a little patience and, of course, sugar to taste ;)


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...

[JonInMiddleGA]

Yes, but if you want to try and marginalize who you are arguing with and make it sound like their position is so stupid that only the brainwashed would believe it, clearly this is the cliche to use

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.

[stevew]

Berry Blue was my all time favorite flavor. Purplesaurus Rex and Sharkleberry Fin were up there too.

[ageofquarrel]

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!

[Antmeister]

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.

[WSUCougar]

The license plate better not come up under your name, albion, or you got some 'splainin' to do...

http://www.gessford.com/work/images/Kool-Aid-Cobra-03411.JPG

[BrianD]

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!


Combine this with the Dane Cook thread, and it makes much more sense. :)

[Buzzbee]

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!
That wasn't poison in ageofquarrel's Kool-aid.

[korme]

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!
Haha, truly one of his best bits

[stevew]

Throwing someone "Under the Bus" is starting to hit "Kool Aid" type proportions.

[Airhog]

when did drinking the Kool-Aid, jump the shark?

[judicial clerk]

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.

[Eaglesfan27]

"Oh Yeah!"
*backs silently out of the hole in the wall*

[Anthony]

he all up in the Kool Aid and he don't even know the flava.