Every mutual fund, endowment and family office drank Greenberg's Kool-Aid, and trusted whatever he told them.
Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth.
Yet perhaps Kool-Aid is an apter symbol for Hastings than its boosters would like.
Regardless of the comparison between the companies, Blankenship has taken a serious gulp of the Tesla Kool-Aid.
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Already a nursing association has chosen Hastings for its convention because it is the birthplace of Kool-Aid.
Walk into SAP and all you see is promotion for HANA. Even the employees have drunk the Kool-Aid.
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And, just possibly, the imagined connection between Genuine Nebraska and Genuine Kool-Aid will help bring Hastings new people.
Now, we can add Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to the burgeoning list of high-profile names to drink the venture capital Kool-Aid.
If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.
Meanwhile, Kool-Aid's marketers have done their best to stay abreast of fashion.
Rating agencies also drank the Kool-Aid and gave AAA ratings to this stuff, which, thanks to securitization, was spread all around the world.
Microsoft wants you to drink their Kool-Aid from morning until bedtime.
Because, I tasted the bargain basement version of the campaign donor Kool-aid, once and that video strikes me as a slightly more expensive version of the same vintage.
Besides, Kool-Aid's image has changed as much as its headquarters.
Apple kool-aid drinkers claim that Jobs could have given anonymously.
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They backpedalled to the mid-term elections, bemoaning that we downed the campaign ad Kool-Aid and fell in lock step with what we already believed to be true, right and good.
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Then once I find a color, barely an hour after I apply it, I'm haunted by the ghost of lipstick past, a Kool-Aid stain less appealing than my bare lips.
The story of Kool-Aid's creation is most definitely genuine.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Young people, however, are not drinking the Kool-Aid.
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The company had a well-developed portfolio of beverages for kids, including Kool-Aid and Capri Sun, and it had a great portfolio of products for women, Crystal Light and Maxwell House, being among the most popular.
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For that reason, I doubt that anyone who is a true Apple fanatic, who has drunk the rainbow Kool-Aid and who thrills at the very words "Think Different, " will believe a word I have to say.
Drink your Kool-Aid, one and all.
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In Mankato Troop 76 alone, amongst the scant few athletes and Honor Roll-ees, there was the Goth kid who collected illegal butterfly knives, the pale basement dweller whose shoulders blistered in the sun, the Magic the Gathering player with a perma-Kool-Aid-stache, the compulsive liar, and the chain smoker who came to meetings still dressed in his Burger King uniform.
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The man makes French toast and waffles and ham and eggs and pancakes and cereal and Pop-Tarts and brownies and hot dogs and hamburgers and baked Alaska and a birthday cake in the shape of a castle and pours glasses of milk and orange juice and coffee and Tang and Kool-Aid and water and puts ice in all of the glasses.
We find economists sticking to empty guns, overstating their cases, playing modern-day oracles, drinking their own Kool Aid, gambling their fortunes, losing their shirts, getting depressed, disparaging one another, and descending into intellectual oblivion.
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