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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Kool-Aid</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../K.html" title="K"/><link rel="previous" href="kook.html" title="kook"/><link rel="next" href="kremvax.html" title="kremvax"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Kool-Aid</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kook.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">K</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="kremvax.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Kool-Aid"/><dt xmlns="" id="Kool-Aid"><b>Kool-Aid</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [from a kid's sugar-enriched drink in fruity flavors] When someone
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who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and actually begins
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to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor, they are said to
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have drunk the Kool-Aid. Usually the decortication process is slow and
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almost unnoticeable until one day the victim emerges as a True Believer and
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begins spreading the faith himself. The term originates in the suicide of
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914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in 1978 (there
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are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests from the
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1960s). What the Jonestown victims actually drank was cyanide-laced
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Flavor-Aid, a cheap knockoff, rather than Kool-Aid itself. There is a
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<a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/food/kool-aid-faq.html" target="_top">
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FAQ</a> on this topic.</p><p>This has live variants. When a suit is blithering on about their
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latest technology and how it will save the world, that's ‘pouring
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Kool-Aid’. When the suit does not violate the laws of physics,
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doesn't make impossible claims, and in fact says something reasonable and
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believable, that's pouring good Kool-Aid, usually used in the sentence
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“<span class="quote">He pours good Kool-Aid, doesn't he?</span>” This connotes that the
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speaker might be about to drink same.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="kook.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../K.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="kremvax.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">kook<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>kremvax</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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