Tim Churches wrote:
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I always thought the connotation was more that those who
"drank the Kool-Aid" were unthinking drones, following what
others told them to do.
I thought it was an allusion to "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test" by Tom Wolfe - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool_Aid_Acid_Test
I am pretty sure that it was a Jonestown reference. I was living in
Menlo Park, CA around the time of Jonestown, and "drank the Kool-Aid"
came into coin as a (shocking at the time) reference after Jonestown,
and I knew a number of people who hung out at Keysey's place and a
few "on the bus" types -- none of them ever used the "drank the Kool-
Aid" phrase before Jonestown to my knowledge.
--Scott David Daniels
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