[Elecraft] Elecraft Hats at Dayton? Drinking the Kool Aide

[Phil Hystad]

Actually, both the Ken Kesey reference and the Jim Jones People's Temple reference are valid sources for the phrase "I drank the Kool Aide", or "...drinking the Kool Aide".  Real truth can be found only through Google!  I drank the Google Kool Aide.


On May 19, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Bruce Beford <bruce.beford at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> If you mean Ken Kesey, then no, I don't think that's the relevant reference.
> Ken Kesey (and the gang of Merry Pranksters) used LSD laced Kool-Aid to
> promote communal tripping.
> 
> The Jonestown example was far darker, a case of blindly following a
> misguided trust to oblivion. It was after that incident that "drinking the
> Kool-Aid", took on a whole new meaning...
> 
> It remains a cautionary tale, with a sober lesson that people should think
> for themselves.
> 
>> I thought the reference was to Ken Keasey and The Merry Pranksters from 
>> the '60s.
>>     Kevin.  KD5ONS
> 
> 
> 
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