Comments on: Origin of a phrase

By: Grasshopper

Grasshopper — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:10:13 +0000

Jack…disturbingly funny.

Lexicon is a strange thing. I’m personally bothered by the incorporation, and glamorization, of “pimping”. Pimp this. Pimp that. Pimp my ride. And on and on. There is nothing pretty about the reality of prostitution and being pimped. And yet, it’s a word used everywhere these days in a complimentary manner. Gross.

I’m not so bothered by the Don’t Drink the Kool Aid references. But, I do cringe a little bit when people use the word ‘postal’ as a reference for going crazy – or the more modern version: “pulling a Klebold”, a reference to the Columbine shootings. I’m tellin ya, our country is going to heck.

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:40 +0000

Jack – Ouch… just… ouch.

By: Contrary Jack

Contrary Jack — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Which reminds me:

You know why there are no jokes about Jonestown?

The punchline would be too long.

(Bad folklorist! Bad, bad folklorist!)

By: Ashub

Ashub — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:47:08 +0000

The funny bit is that they drank the Flavor Aid (which was correctly stated in the Jim Jones Wikipedia article) I also think that “White Night” should have entered the lexicon for 'suicide drill'. Personally, I'd give the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test props to the Merry Pranksters … and puzzle how it ever became enshrined into corpspeak.

'"drink the Kool-Aid," corporate-speak for immersing oneself in a cultlike culture.'

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/92/debunk.htm…