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I believe the 'Twinkie Defense' was also related somehow to the Jim Jones thing....used by one of his followers later for murder charges, I think...
 
Sedona16 said:
. As it happens, the product used by Jim Jones was FlavorAid, a rival of Kool-Aid

Does this mean that the Jim Jones followers were like bottom feeders of the spaced out cult industry?? I mean surely a top ranked company like Comair or ExpressJet wouldn't expect employees to drink some cheap imposter of Kool-Aid would they??

Perhaps when interviewing for future jobs it would be wise to check out what brand of "Kool-Aid" the company keeps on hand. I bet the folks at Tab Express bought FlavorAid by the pallet load...........and sadly they had a line of suckers just waiting to fill up their glass.................
 
Sedona16 said:
There may be readers of this page who aren't familiar with the Kool-Aid allusion. Should we let them in on it? Okay, I will. In the 1970s, a failed monkey salesman named Jim Jones found fame and fortune in San Francisco by founding The People's Temple, a more or less common garden variety of cult. In 1978 he persuaded 1,100 members to go with him to Guyana, where the government had given him 300 acres for his new version of The People's Temple. In November he apparently felt trapped by the threat of exposure for the fraud that he was, and for that reason or some other, persuaded 900 members of the cult, including men, women and coerced children, to die by ceremoniously drinking grape Kool-Aid that they knew to be poisoned with Cianide. Kool-Aid is an American product consisting of powdered fruit flavoring and sugar in an envelope, which when mixed with water makes a drinkable beverage. As it happens, the product used by Jim Jones was FlavorAid, a rival of Kool-Aid.

They drank Flavoraid, not Kool-aid.
 
Flavoraid?!?!?!?!

Cheap b@stard.......
 
The "Kool Aid" thing became popular with Eastern Airlines. That's when I first remember people talking about not drinking the company Kool Aid. Now whether Frank Borman made grape flavored Kool Aid is a topic for another board.
 
GeneralAv said:
I believe the 'Twinkie Defense' was also related somehow to the Jim Jones thing....used by one of his followers later for murder charges, I think...

Negative, the Twinkie Defense was associated with a disgruntled San Francisco city employee who in 1978 stormed into city hall and murdered S.F.'s mayor, George Moscone, and a supervisor, Harvey Milk. The story was that he tried to beat the murder charge by pleading insanity due to overconsumption of twinkies. Turns out not to be true, check http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm
for the full story.
 
Nine days after “Jonestown,” San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed. Both men had received financial support from Jones while he was in San Francisco and were involved in an ongoing investigation into their involvement in the disappearance of People’s Temple funds. Dan White, described as being in a "zombie state" at the time of the killings, murdered them. White’s lawyers attempted to defend their client by stating that White had been temporarily insane due to the effects of eating too much sugar, a defense which was mockingly known as the “Twinkie defense.”

Now I have to go find the source for that.....
 
Didn't those guys that were supposed to catch a ride on the comet take some cool-aide as well? Remember those guys with the Nike tennis shoes?
 
FN FAL said:
Didn't those guys that were supposed to catch a ride on the comet take some cool-aide as well? Remember those guys with the Nike tennis shoes?

Yes, the comet they were awaiting for, which was bringing thier spaceship, was the Hale-Bopp Comet.

The Spaceship couldn't make the flight, the auto pilot and GPS cannot be defered at the same time on that model of spaceship. Therefore it was cxld, and the passengers were rebooked on SWA.
 

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