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<pedant alert> The thing that always niggles me about the 'drinking the company/start-up Koolaid' is it's reference to the Jonestown massacre. It was actually
by ljf 15y ago
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The thing that always niggles me about the 'drinking the company/start-up Koolaid' is it's reference to the Jonestown massacre. It was actually Flavor-Aid that was used to mask the Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan, and kill 907 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid
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- veyron 15y agoI thought it was a reference to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (for some reason, it was deemed a good idea to have 9th grade students read the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)
- ljf 15y agoI'd always though it was that too - I'd presumed was a roughly positive expression, eg once you've drunk the company Kool-Aid, you get to see the bigger picture and understand more. A visiting American put me right, before I'd had chance to use it incorrectly! (Amazing book btw, love it)