Drink the Kool-Aid

[Douglas Bigham]

Always negative?  I don't agree.  I can't find *proof*, but I can *recall*
using/hearing "drink the Kool Aid" without a negative meaning.  It's
synonymous with "just do it"  or "get it over with already".

-doug

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
University of Texas - Austin

In a message dated 3/10/2003 6:48:34 PM Central Standard Time,
dave at WILTON.NET writes:

> The term is always negative and cynical, although it is true that it doesn't
> necessarily connote future disaster. It implies that the people who "drink"
> are mindlessly following the leader. Right or wrong, that's not a positive
> image. Clark is not displaying a high degree of respect for the
> stockholders
> here.