Dumb question? What does "kool aid" drinker mean?

[yppahemnkm]

I'm new here, but what does "kool aid drinkers" mean?

Thanks

[Beetwasher]

1. People Who Blindly Follow Someone

Without rational thought.

Comes from the followers of Jim Jones who committed mass suicide by drinking poison Kool Aid because he told them to.

[RebelOne]

2. Refers to all the Jim Jones followers who all drank the poisoned

Kool-Aid and died. I'm sure someone else will explain further.

[triguy46]

3. refers to the Jonestown nightmare

in which about 900 people either voluntarily drank cyanide laced flavor aide or were forced to or were shot, at the direction of their messiah wannabe leader Jim Jones.

[MADem]

4. It refers to JONESTOWN

Jim Jones, that nut who made all those folks drink powdered drink mix and poison, and they all died. It was actually Flavor-Aid that he used, the cheap bastard...

Do a google, it happened in the late 70s.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I think it refers to the Jim Jones

suicide cult in Gayana (sp?) in the 80's. The poison was in the Kool Aid. So if you drink it, you are swallowing everything the government tells you.

Of course, the RW calls us Kool Aid drinkers, too. So it is an equal opportunity snark.

[gkhouston]

11. grape kool-aid

which was not served at my university for the rest of the semester, LOL, although I remember someone leaving a large can of it on the desk at the front of the Chemistry Lecture hall just before a particularly difficult test...

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. What an awful mess that was

I haven't had Kool aid since.

[mshasta]

6. people who like to drink kool aid...

from the republicans...

[jedr]

7. Reference to Jones town; drinking of the poison kool-aid

People who will follow a ideology to their death,without question.

[Extend a Hand]

8. ahhh to be young again

;) I see the other old farts have already explained.

[KurtNYC]

9. = people who can't or don't think for themselves

Recently used by NBC's Katie Couric (of all people):

"We're not drinking the Kool Aid here..."

Of course as cheerleaders for the Iraq occupation, they ARE the Kool Aid.

[mattomjoe]

10. Does "Kool-Aid drinker" refer to Jones Town?

:hide:

[toddaa]

12. Jim Jones collectibles

http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/jimjones.htm

Yes, I am a bit of a sick fuck. I have a copy of the suicide recording.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi yppahemnkm!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: