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Thread started 08/12/07 6:43pm

purplesweat

Who came up with the term "purple kool aid"?

Cause 3121.com is using it now.

Was it invented here?
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Reply #1 posted 08/12/07 6:53pm

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I think it might have something to do with a picture of prince holding a bottle of some purple stuff


This one i think

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Reply #2 posted 08/12/07 7:12pm

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I think I read it in the context of being kind of brain washed by Prince, (I took it as ala the heavens gate cult...but in a good way..??) Can't remember where exactly, either here or in an email maybe. I do remember laughing out loud.
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Reply #3 posted 08/12/07 7:25pm

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That is hiliarious!

That term was made up on the AMP and Org forums a LONG time ago! Pathetic the person is saying that Prince and his band are drinking it.

Someone drinking the purple kool-aid is NOT a good thing. It was for all the fans who would go overboard about him. Like you can love Prince just don't looooove Prince. It was a way of describing the not so healthy aspect of being a fan.

I have been reading these reviews on 3121.com about the London shows and it has been irking me. It seems they keep rehashing stuff. Like I read it before. Mentioning the Hohner being wailed on or a sheer joy or a rare treat or having to put man at the end of a sentence or the NPG schooled us and that thing about the (head) wrap was lame.

It seems the person that is writing these reviews or posts is constantly looking for Prince's approval or appreciation or love. It is sad that this is the only posts on his site. I now have to come over to here and Housequake to get reviews. I know I should be happy that they even have reviews on the site unlike some of the Vegas shows.

The self indulgence of the person writing it and also the poster having to prove loyalty is just too overbearing. Perhaps if other fans were allowed to share reviews and they said the same thing, it would be more acceptable.

It is obvious the poster writing this drank or drinks from the Purple Kool-Aid a little too much for my taste.
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Reply #4 posted 08/13/07 5:33am

wlcm2thdwn

The Kool-aid company?!
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Reply #5 posted 08/13/07 6:34am

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Reply #6 posted 08/13/07 7:19am

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banishedones666 said:

That is hiliarious!

That term was made up on the AMP and Org forums a LONG time ago! Pathetic the person is saying that Prince and his band are drinking it.

Someone drinking the purple kool-aid is NOT a good thing. It was for all the fans who would go overboard about him. Like you can love Prince just don't looooove Prince. It was a way of describing the not so healthy aspect of being a fan.

I have been reading these reviews on 3121.com about the London shows and it has been irking me. It seems they keep rehashing stuff. Like I read it before. Mentioning the Hohner being wailed on or a sheer joy or a rare treat or having to put man at the end of a sentence or the NPG schooled us and that thing about the (head) wrap was lame.

It seems the person that is writing these reviews or posts is constantly looking for Prince's approval or appreciation or love. It is sad that this is the only posts on his site. I now have to come over to here and Housequake to get reviews. I know I should be happy that they even have reviews on the site unlike some of the Vegas shows.

The self indulgence of the person writing it and also the poster having to prove loyalty is just too overbearing. Perhaps if other fans were allowed to share reviews and they said the same thing, it would be more acceptable.

It is obvious the poster writing this drank or drinks from the Purple Kool-Aid a little too much for my taste.


Anyone else who doesn't realize that the 3121 posts are generated by Prince's publicist, please raise your hands.
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Reply #7 posted 08/13/07 7:37am

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if me memory serves me right...Purple kool aid never had positive connotations....I wonder if the creator of those posts realizes that hmm
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Reply #8 posted 08/13/07 9:06am

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CJBabyDaddy said:

banishedones666 said:

That is hiliarious!

That term was made up on the AMP and Org forums a LONG time ago! Pathetic the person is saying that Prince and his band are drinking it.

Someone drinking the purple kool-aid is NOT a good thing. It was for all the fans who would go overboard about him. Like you can love Prince just don't looooove Prince. It was a way of describing the not so healthy aspect of being a fan.

I have been reading these reviews on 3121.com about the London shows and it has been irking me. It seems they keep rehashing stuff. Like I read it before. Mentioning the Hohner being wailed on or a sheer joy or a rare treat or having to put man at the end of a sentence or the NPG schooled us and that thing about the (head) wrap was lame.

It seems the person that is writing these reviews or posts is constantly looking for Prince's approval or appreciation or love. It is sad that this is the only posts on his site. I now have to come over to here and Housequake to get reviews. I know I should be happy that they even have reviews on the site unlike some of the Vegas shows.

The self indulgence of the person writing it and also the poster having to prove loyalty is just too overbearing. Perhaps if other fans were allowed to share reviews and they said the same thing, it would be more acceptable.

It is obvious the poster writing this drank or drinks from the Purple Kool-Aid a little too much for my taste.


Anyone else who doesn't realize that the 3121 posts are generated by Prince's publicist, please raise your hands.


lol... Yeah, I doubt there'd be a negative article on his own site.
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Reply #9 posted 08/13/07 9:08am

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The term purple cool aid, I believe, started in and around the first or second Celebration at Paisley Park.
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Reply #10 posted 08/13/07 10:09am

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DJJillMonroe said:

if me memory serves me right...Purple kool aid never had positive connotations....I wonder if the creator of those posts realizes that hmm



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Reply #11 posted 08/13/07 10:10am

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myfavorite said:

DJJillMonroe said:

if me memory serves me right...Purple kool aid never had positive connotations....I wonder if the creator of those posts realizes that hmm



...ya heard????....guyanna sound familiar???.....stop the terror!!!!



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Reply #12 posted 08/13/07 10:32am

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hmm are you all for real? It's a reference to the Jonestown Massacre were they drank grape (ie, purple) kool aid.

The idiomatic expression "drinking the Kool-Aid" was originally a reference to the Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with novelist Ken Kesey who in the early 1960s travelled around the United States and held events called "Acid Tests", where LSD-laced Kool-Aid was passed out to the public (LSD was legal at that time). Those who "drank the Kool-Aid" passed the "Acid Test." "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in that context meant accepting the LSD drug culture, and the Pranksters' "turned on" point of view. These events were described in Tom Wolfe's 1968 classic, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.[4]

It is also now closely associated with the 1978 cult mass-suicide/murder in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year, he then ordered his flock to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Flavor Aid laced with potassium cyanide. In what is now commonly called the "Jonestown Massacre," a large majority of the 913 people later found dead drank the brew. (The discrepancy between the idiom and the actual occurrence is likely due to Flavor Aid's relative obscurity versus the easily recognizable Kool-Aid.) The precise expression can be attested in usage at least as early as 1987[4]. One lasting legacy of the Jonestown tragedy is the saying, "Don't drink the Kool-Aid." This has come to mean, "Don’t trust any group you find to be a little on the kooky side," or "Whatever they tell you, don't believe it too strongly."[1] The phrase can also be used in the opposite sense to indicate that one has blindly embraced a particular philosophy or perspective (a "Kool-Aid drinker", or, as a cynical response to a fanatical claim, "sounds like someone's been drinking the Kool-Aid!").
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Reply #13 posted 08/13/07 10:53am

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mplsmike said:

I think it might have something to do with a picture of prince holding a bottle of some purple stuff


This one i think

[Edited 8/12/07 19:08pm]


That ain't Kool Aid Naww disbelief It's Prune Juice! Prince gotta stay regular too u know! lol Oh and LOOOOOVE this picture! love
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Reply #14 posted 08/13/07 2:58pm

wlcm2thdwn

Jim Jones? Remember him nuts The cult leaders that made his followers drink Poisioned Grape kool-aid!
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Reply #15 posted 08/13/07 3:52pm

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sosgemini said:

hmm are you all for real? It's a reference to the Jonestown Massacre were they drank grape (ie, purple) kool aid.

I think most of us who are old enough..allready know that story..
but i doubt..the prince refrence..purple kool aid has any thing to do with Jim jones lol
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Reply #16 posted 08/13/07 5:19pm

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mplsmike said:

sosgemini said:

hmm are you all for real? It's a reference to the Jonestown Massacre were they drank grape (ie, purple) kool aid.

I think most of us who are old enough..allready know that story..
but i doubt..the prince refrence..purple kool aid has any thing to do with Jim jones lol

that's just because you are used to hearing the phrase in popular culture.
every mention of "drinking the kool aid" whether the poster realizes it or not...
goes back to the jonestown massacre, no doubt.
it's meaning has just morphed into something much less menacing.
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Reply #17 posted 08/13/07 5:26pm

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mplsmike said:

sosgemini said:

hmm are you all for real? It's a reference to the Jonestown Massacre were they drank grape (ie, purple) kool aid.

I think most of us who are old enough..allready know that story..
but i doubt..the prince refrence..purple kool aid has any thing to do with Jim jones lol


nevermind lol
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Reply #18 posted 08/13/07 5:36pm

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Flowerz said:

nevermind lol

hah!
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Reply #19 posted 08/13/07 5:39pm

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mplsmike said:

Flowerz said:

nevermind lol

hah!


lol ..yeah.. im gonna bow out this one lol .. (i meant the whole purple Kool-Aid thing)
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Reply #20 posted 08/13/07 5:43pm

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emm said:

mplsmike said:


I think most of us who are old enough..allready know that story..
but i doubt..the prince refrence..purple kool aid has any thing to do with Jim jones lol

that's just because you are used to hearing the phrase in popular culture.
every mention of "drinking the kool aid" whether the poster realizes it or not...
goes back to the jonestown massacre, no doubt.
it's meaning has just morphed into something much less menacing.


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Reply #21 posted 08/13/07 5:44pm

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I like cherry or strawberry kool-aid.. drink my self
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Reply #22 posted 08/13/07 5:54pm

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sosgemini said:

emm said:


that's just because you are used to hearing the phrase in popular culture.
every mention of "drinking the kool aid" whether the poster realizes it or not...
goes back to the jonestown massacre, no doubt.
it's meaning has just morphed into something much less menacing.


thanks...



All in the Kool-Aid and don't know the flava...tee hee
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Reply #23 posted 08/13/07 8:03pm

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The term shows up a lot in the okayplayer forums..pretty much anyone who likes Prince post 88 is drinking it.
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Reply #24 posted 08/13/07 8:20pm

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KidaDynamite said:

mplsmike said:

I think it might have something to do with a picture of prince holding a bottle of some purple stuff


This one i think

[Edited 8/12/07 19:08pm]


That ain't Kool Aid Naww disbelief It's Prune Juice! Prince gotta stay regular too u know! lol Oh and LOOOOOVE this picture! love


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