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More 'song-and-dance'.

I like the dance and the music is beautiful.

The Kool-Aid is also tasty, no?

Ummm. Ok, you lost me on that one - I gather it's an American-specific
reference? A certain (former) politician here in Australia would ask you
to
"Please explain".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22

From above:

Currently the term is mostly 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[1].
The saying "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" now commonly refers
to the Jonestown tragedy, meaning "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."[2] Fox News
commentator Bill O'Reilly is famous for using the term in
this manner. [3]

So, if someone says something like "The Kool-Aid is also tasty", they're
saying that you're buying into what one of these "kooky" groups is saying.
In other words, you're believing what they say without question or reason.

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein


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