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12-08-2012, 02:36 PM
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Sage
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
Another take on the meaning of "drinking the Kool-Aid". This is a quote and not from personal experience!
This is a reference to the "electric Kool-Aid acid tests," which were LSD parties held in the San Francisco Bay area in the mid 1960's. Someone who was willing to drink the LSD-laced Kool-Aid had, symbolically, made a choice to join (if only for a few hours) a counterculture that stood against conventional society. Once you take acid, you're committed -- the trip lasts for hours and you can't cut it short or change your mind. Once you've drunk the kool-aid, you're firmly committed.
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Very interesting Barefoot. Drinking The Kool Aid - Television Tropes & Idioms
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