Kool-aid, NOPE

[colin_p]

Whoever uses the kool-aid reference, unless they are American, needs a slap with a large wet fish.

You sound silly talking about something never seen in the UK and the next phase will have you saying things like "gotten", "fall", "rotors" and "chowder".

It is;
Got
Autumn
Discs
and
Soup.

Back to the cool aid, I propose that the good old British alternative, favoured by children of the 60's and 70's be used. Creamola was in fact so good, it probably got banned, by Arthur Scargill.

Creamola, creamola, CREAMOLA.

[Doofus]

What Kool-aid reference?

[number2]

It was based on the Jonestown massacre, organised by cult leader nutcase Jim Jones. It's recognised outside of the US so why shouldn't someone in the UK use the phrase? Odd.

[regardless of whether Kool-aid was used or not, it stuck]

[h0b0]

number2 said:

It was based on the Jonestown massacre, organised by cult leader nutcase Jim Jones. It's recognised outside of the US so why shouldn't someone in the UK use the phrase? Odd.

[regardless of whether Kool-aid was used or not, it stuck]

I suspect the OP did not know it is a specific historical reference.

[SteveStrange]

h0b0 said:

number2 said:

It was based on the Jonestown massacre, organised by cult leader nutcase Jim Jones. It's recognised outside of the US so why shouldn't someone in the UK use the phrase? Odd.

[regardless of whether Kool-aid was used or not, it stuck]

I suspect the OP did not know it is a specific historical reference.

I suspect the OP has been drinking at lunchtime.

[h0b0]

Or, maybe the OP is next level because the Jonestown massacre did not drink Kool-Aid.

Wiki said:

Although Jones used poisoned Flavor Aid, the drink mix was also commonly (mistakenly) referred to as Kool-Aid. This has led to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", referring to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a U.S.–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909[1][2] people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.[

[sherman]

h0b0 said:

Or, maybe the OP is next level because the Jonestown massacre did not drink Kool-Aid.

Wiki said:

Although Jones used poisoned Flavor Aid, the drink mix was also commonly (mistakenly) referred to as Kool-Aid. This has led to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", referring to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, a U.S.–based cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 909[1][2] people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.[

I was assuming its more a reference to the large red pitcher of juice smashingvthrough a walland shouting "oh Yeah!!"

As for rotors. Helicoptors definetly have them and soup is a very generic coverall for all the different types of soup you have, hings like broth, cullen skink and even ramen but that might be pushing the term soup.

Edited by sherman on Wednesday 3rd August 14:05

[biggbn]

I had always assumed the Kool Aid saying came from Wolfe's 'Electric Kool Aid Acid Test'