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#1 Oct 25 2007 at 6:43 AM Rating: Good
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Since so many people complain that other people are all "up in their kool-aid", I'd wonder what you consider your kool-aid? Alternately, if the OOT is a complex ecosystem of predominantly fungal life, where is your ecological niche?

I am all leftist and ******-centric and goddamnit..old hag. Smiley: glare I guess that's my "kool-aid"
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Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
#2 Oct 25 2007 at 6:44 AM Rating: Good
You forgot Smiley: mad, Anna.
#3 Oct 25 2007 at 6:44 AM Rating: Default
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My grape flavoUred beverage is my 'kool-aid'
#4 Oct 25 2007 at 6:45 AM Rating: Good
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Oh yeah, and Smiley: mad is MY boyfriend.
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Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
#5 Oct 25 2007 at 6:48 AM Rating: Good
Not a big kool-aid fan. More of a Green tea or Chai Tea kind of guy...

I have no problem with people coming over and eating all my food, drinking all my beer, and trying to borrow my car keys with out my knowlage. Just stay away from my teas and we will get along just fine.
#6 Oct 25 2007 at 6:48 AM Rating: Good
I probably drink ACLU kool-aid. I'm mostly left wing. But I disagree with the Democrats enough to not be one.
#7 Oct 25 2007 at 6:48 AM Rating: Decent
Wordaen, posting for obligatory rateups, and Smiley: oyvey.

Also Modern and Ancient Jewry.

And I get sloppy seconds on Doug has AIDS.
#8 Oct 25 2007 at 6:49 AM Rating: Good
Foot Worship.
#9 Oct 25 2007 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
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His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Foot Worship.


No, your kool-aid is having a hot wife.
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Turin wrote:
Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
#10 Oct 25 2007 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Foot Worship.
Last night, I was almost drunk enough to scan my socks and pm them to you. That would have been lulz.
#11 Oct 25 2007 at 6:50 AM Rating: Decent
Sadly,
It's playing FFXI
#12 Oct 25 2007 at 6:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Feminine pedantry. I'm a pedantrix.

Also: making up words that sound real.
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#13 Oct 25 2007 at 6:51 AM Rating: Decent
I have never drank kool-aid before.
#14 Oct 25 2007 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
Lady Annabella wrote:
His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Foot Worship.


No, your kool-aid is having a hot wife.


That as well


Oh and Mindel, that would have been epic lulz, as the kids call it these days.
#15 Oct 25 2007 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
I'd probably be totally left, if the left didn't adopt the "big white daddy knows whats best' attitude. The left tries to silence bigots. The left is supposed to be about everyone gets a say.

christ, i'm drunk, i go to bed now, if this thread is alive later, i'll actually explain myself.
#16 Oct 25 2007 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
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Tuesday raep.

I'm willing to share my Kool-Aid though for a price.

"Now, take off your clothes" is also a favorite.
#17 Oct 25 2007 at 6:54 AM Rating: Excellent
His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Lady Annabella wrote:
His Excellency Soracloud wrote:
Foot Worship.


No, your kool-aid is having a hot wife.


That as well


Oh and Mindel, that would have been epic lulz, as the kids call it these days.
Those damned kids with their em-tee-vees and the hipping hops. Smiley: bah
#18 Oct 25 2007 at 6:55 AM Rating: Default
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******** and complaining about absolutely everything.
That's me.
Step off my Kool-aid.
#19 Oct 25 2007 at 6:57 AM Rating: Good
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MILF.

Nexa
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#20 Oct 25 2007 at 7:01 AM Rating: Decent
Nexa wrote:
MILF.

Nexa


Truth.

#21 Oct 25 2007 at 7:03 AM Rating: Good
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Nexa wrote:
MILF.

Nexa


I wonder if Nexa in fact sees herself as a MILF and whether that makes her a onanist.
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Turin wrote:
Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
#22 Oct 25 2007 at 7:05 AM Rating: Good
Nexa wrote:
Nexa

Nexa

Smiley: nod
#23 Oct 25 2007 at 7:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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Lady Annabella wrote:
Nexa wrote:
MILF.

Nexa


I wonder if Nexa in fact sees herself as a MILF and whether that makes her a onanist.


When would I have the time? We've established that I'm a mom, and ********* That leaves me with no spare time for narcissistic ventures.

Well, that and the full time employment and graduate work.

Nexa
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#24 Oct 25 2007 at 7:08 AM Rating: Decent
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Lady Annabella wrote:
Oh yeah, and Smiley: mad is MY boyfriend.


My favoUrite flavoUr is your boyfriend flavoUred kool-aid?
#25 Oct 25 2007 at 7:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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Kool aid? What is this kool-aid you speak of?
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#26 Oct 25 2007 at 7:13 AM Rating: Decent
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Kool aid? What is this kool-aid you speak of?


Invention and production

Kool-Aid was invented by Gerard and Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder. This powder was named Kool-Ade (and a few years later, it was renamed 'Kool-Aid' due to a change in US Government regulations regarding the need for fruit juice in products using the term "Ade"). Perkins moved his production to Chicago in 1931 and Kool-Aid was sold to General Foods in 1953.

Other uses

Kool-Aid’s high concentration of food coloring and its low retail cost (US$0.25 a packet as of 2006) have led some to use Kool-Aid to dye fabric and hair.

Dyeing Fabric and Yarn

Kool-aid dyes protein (animal) fibers such as wool, silk, and fur (hair). It is popular with knitters for dyeing wool yarn. As it’s food-safe, it doesn’t require special utensils reserved for this purpose as other dyes do. Tamarindo (brown), Switchin’ Secret (light green/tan), and Grape (purple) are popular flavors, because they can be used to tone down the otherwise day-glo colors. A typical formula is one packet of Kool-aid per ounce of fiber, combined with 1/2 cup of water and optionally, a tablespoon of vinegar. Heat is used to set the color, usually by steaming or boiling.

* Introduction to Dyeing with Kool-Aid
* Dyeing with Kool-Aid Color Chart

Hair Dye

Using a packet of Kool-aid, a spoonful of corn starch, and a small amount of water, a paste can be made and applied to the hair. Kurt Cobain, of the band Nirvana, had his hair dyed with red Kool-Aid before a performance on Saturday Night Live.

Advertising and promotion


The mascot of Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid Man (aka The Big Man), is a large anthropomorphic frosty pitcher filled with Kool-Aid and marked with a finger painted smiley face on it, seen in Kool-Aid's advertising. He was introduced shortly after General Foods acquired the brand. In TV and print ads, Kool-Aid Man was known for bursting suddenly through walls, seemingly summoned by the making and imbibing of Kool-Aid by children. His catch phrase is "Oh, yeah!"

Because the Perkins Products Company had its origins in Nebraska, and the company's founder kept his ties to the state, Kool-Aid was dubbed the official soft drink of Nebraska. Kool-Aid Days, a summertime festival that includes the World's Largest Kool-Aid Stand, is held annually during the second weekend of August in Hastings, Nebraska.

Kool-Aid points

Kool-Aid points are tiny boxes on the back of Kool-Aid packets that can be clipped out and later redeemed for prizes at the "Wacky Warehouse."[1] Older versions of Kool-Aid points contained a picture of a Kool-Aid Man pitcher, the words PROOF-OF-PURCHASE, and a point value. Newer versions contain the Kool-Aid man's face, the words "Kool-Aid POINT", and a point value.

Generally, points would be collected and sent in with a Wacky Warehouse order form, along with money for shipping and handling. Typical prizes included mugs, t-shirts, boxer shorts, canteens, fannypacks , kazoos, hats, cassette players, etc and varied in point value.[2] A cardboard bank was available to store Kool-Aid points in. When the flavor Purplesaurus Rex debuted, the point value on each packet was doubled.[3]

There were seven Kool-Aid Man comics made in the 1980s. Each had two stories involving the Kool-Aid Man and a band of children fighting off yellow, spikey characters called “Thirsties”.

Two video game versions of Kool-Aid Man were made for the Atari 2600 and the Mattel Intellivision, which were a tie-in with the comic books. Both were noted for being totally different games, giving gamers two different experiences involving Kool-Aid Man on each system. It was a change from the norm, where most games that were ported were exactly the same on each system. It is debatable how good the games were, or which system had the better version game. But it was another use of popular marketing that was done at the time, using the famous pitcher icon that had been on TV commercials for so long in a fun and thrilling way in the new video game boom that was going on at the time in the early 1980s. They are considered to be amongst the more scarce (but not necessarily rare) games to find for those systems.

1990s Nintendo contest

Kool-Aid partnered with Nintendo in the early 1990s, for a promotion involving their newest product, “Kool-Aid Bursts”. Game codes were printed inside the packaging during the promotion, and the winning code would eventually be announced on the Nickelodeon network, during a broadcast of Wild & Crazy Kids. The winner was promised “every game Nintendo makes”, their own likeness being programmed into a new Nintendo game, among other prizes. The winning code was never produced, thus, the grand prize would not be awarded.

“Drinking the Kool-Aid”
Contrary to popular belief, Kool-Aid was not used in the infamous punch at Jonestown
Contrary to popular belief, Kool-Aid was not used in the infamous punch at Jonestown

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 suicide 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, compared to 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."[5]

Genericized trademark

The Kool-Aid brand is an example of a genericized trademark — a brand name that has become the generic term for a type of product. Different brands of flavored drink powder, such as Flavor-Aid and store brand versions, are often referred to as Kool-Aid, even if the consumer is aware that the product is not the actual Kool-Aid brand.
Flavors

There are many different flavors and types of Kool-Aid.

Original six flavors

* Cherry
* Grape
* Lemon
* Orange
* Raspberry
* Strawberry

Source: Adams County Historical Society[6][7]

Flavors sold in the U.S.

* Apple
* Arctic Green Apple
* Bedrock Orange
* Berry Blue
* Black Cherry
* Blastin' Berry Cherry
* Blue Berry Yum Yum
* Blue Moon Berry
* Blue Raspberry
* Bunch Berry
* Candy Apple
* Changin' Cherry
* Cherry
* Cherry Cracker
* Cherry-Lime
* Cherry Subway
* Cola
* Eerie Orange
* Golden Nectar
* Grape
* Grape Berry Splash
* Grape-Blackberry
* Great Bluedini
* Ice Blue Island Twist
* Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade
* Incrediberry



* Jamaica (Hibiscus)
* Kickin' Kiwi-Lime
* Kiwi Strawberry
* Lemon
* Lemonade
* Lemonade Tea
* Lemon-Grape
* Lemon Ice
* Lemon-Lime
* Mandarina-Tangerine
* Mango
* Man-O-Mango-Berry
* Mountain Berry Punch
* Mountain Spring
* Oh-Yeah Orange-Pineapple
* Orange
* Piña-Pineapple
* Pineapple-Grapefruit
* Pink Lemonade
* Pink Swimmingo
* Punch
* Purplesaurus Rex
* Rainbow Punch
* Raspberry
* Red Fruit



* Root Beer
* Raspberry Reaction
* Rock-a-Dile Red
* Scary Black Cherry
* Scary Blackberry
* Sharkleberry Fin
* Slammin' Strawberry Kiwi
* Soarin' Strawberry-Lemonade
* Solar Strawberry Star Fruit
* Strawberry
* Strawberry Falls Punch
* Strawberry Split Punch
* Strawberry Tea
* Sunshine Punch
* Surfin' Berry Punch
* Swirlin' Strawberry Starfruit
* Tamarindo (Tamarind)
* Tangerine
* Tropical Punch
* Watermelon Kiwi
* Watermelon-Cherry
* Wildberry Tea
* Yabba Dabba Doo Berry

Note: some flavors appear under different names.

Other flavors worldwide

* Frutas
* Frutas Vermilhas
* Grape Blackberry
* Grosella
* Guaraná
* Kolita
* Lemonade Sparkle
* Jalapeno grape

Kool-Aid Jammers flavors

* Cherry
* Grape
* Kiwi Strawberry
* Tropical Punch
* Orange
* Lemonade
* Blue Raspberry
* Green Apple
* Yellow Banana

Kool-Aid Singles flavors

* Cherry
* Grape
* Tropical Punch
* Orange

Kool-Aid Aguas Frescas flavors

* Jamaica
* Tamarindo
* Mango
* Pineapple
* Mandarina Tangerine

Sugar-Free Kool-Aid Flavors

* Cherry
* Grape
* Lemonade
* Soarin' Strawberry Lemonade
* Tropical Punch
* Blastin' Berry Cherry

Other Products

* Kool-Aid pops (Canada, licensed by Nestlé)

Pretty much.
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