The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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The Kool Aide started with them damn hippies and the electric kool aide acid test, but the book didn't acually start it. It was first in sugar cube form, when legal. I suspect it was in somewhat common use when the book was writtin, Merry Pranksters. Merle will correct me, as her drug history is more acurrate then mine. I would guess mine used to be, but too many drugs, drinking and rock and roll, dulled my memory, or old age take your pick.

You assumed too much there Zannie, lol. I thought the comparison to be dead on.

Employee of the month. That's way cool, I guess. Handles and titles and awards are all sort of nice. In this day and age they tend to pass by the good stuff. Did it come with a raise in pay.

Congratulations!!

Drinking the Kool-Aid. Jim Jones, Guyana You do need to be creaky to know that one. Jumping the shark: I had to go to Wikipedia to find out. If I go there will I find out what pwned means. The first few times I saw it I that it was simply a typo.

In Canada, drinking the Kool-aid means Kool-Aid that is made with vodka. You drink it and for some reason it causes the alcohol absorption to be delayed and then it suddenly hits you all at once. You can do the same thing with Jell-o.

I don't think so. I don't know. I just had a raise and bonus not too long ago. Even this boss gets weird around me because I give no indication of how I feel about things, especially work. Work is work to me. It is something I do for money to get along. I don't value it although I'm good at it, if that makes sense. So when she gave me my review she said, I don't know how to motivate you, I have no idea if you even like your job and I have no idea what you want to be doing here in five years. I told her I like my job fine and I don't want to do anything else. I also told her not to make me a manager or try to push me into another job or I would quit. Then she told me about my raise and bonus. I just said, thanks. She kept asking, is that all right? I tried to get as much as I could. Is that enough? Well market-wise it is more than enough, so I'm not sure what she was getting at. I'm not good at those things. I just kept saying it's fine. She just kept getting more nervous.

I think this award would mean more if I was sure why I got it. I'm just doing what I do. At lunch someone saw it and started asking me all these questions. Why did you get that? Who gave it to you? What did they say? I realized I'll be in for more of that because of it, so I went back and put it under some papers on my desk. I don't want everyone coming back here and talking to me. THAT will annoy me.

Money would be okay, but I don't know what I'd spend it on.


The term Kool Aid as I've heard it used, as in "don't drink the kool aid" or "they must have been drinking the kool aid" comes from the Jonestown massacre. I didn't know about Electric Kool Aid. Sounds like something I missed while I was on major pharmaceuticals. I should have bought stock back then in Eli Lilly.

Here's another one. At lunch one of the NTs, who is plotting her escape from the Corporate world to read tarot cards for a living, said she is afraid she has become too much a part of the institution to make it on her own. I told her that means we've all been insitutionalized. Now that I think about it, working in corporate America is in fact like being institutionalized. Rubber room anyone? Get your straight jackets here!

I only found out what Jumping the Shark meant about five months ago. I never understand how these things start. What does pwned mean? How did that start? I also thought it was a typo. These things always throw me with NTs.

My children say "pwned" whenever we are having a conversation and one of them thinks they have made a point that makes the rest of look stupid.

According to Wiki, To take unwilling control of someone else or something belonging to someone else by exploiting a vulnerability.

The teenagers use it when they think they are being smart or "besting" someone in an argument. I really, really hate hearing it all the time!

This is the song (video) I linked to at the end of my fiction about the Aspie woman and Arms Dealer. I like the song and especially the video. Pretty cool stuff for this time in America. What I've Done Video

Here are the words from the Linkin Park site.

In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
'Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away...

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty

So let mercy come
And wash away...

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

For What I've done

I'll start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done

I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done
What I've done

Forgiving what I've done

Think the book "The Electric Kool Aide Acid Test was by Tom Wolfe.

It is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electr ... _Acid_Test written in 68, lord knows when they were doing it.

Jonestown wasn't till 78.

"Pwned" originated in online shooter games, where the players had to type their messages as quickly as possible in order to avoid getting killed. It started as "owned" ("Man, I totally owned you with that headshot!"), then some punk decided he couldn't possibly admit to a mistake, so he claimed he meant to type "pwned". Now it's fallen into leetspeak (or 13375p34k) common usage, along with such neologisms as "n00b" and "lewtz" (as in my new favorite bumper sticker: "Stop camping my rear bumper! It has no phat lewtz!").

As for selling one's writing: I'm in Merle's camp. Back when I was in Uni, I felt like you do, Zanne. I wrote stories, sci-fi, and felt that the whole publishing establishment was bollocks. To this day I have a briefcase full of stories, and assorted fragments, in my garage. TM has never seen them. Not the least interested in showing them 'round. But now I'm getting older, and I'm mercenary. I'm writing a fantasy story, novel length, and hope to publish it. Perhaps I can swing an illustrated novel. (Don't like that 'graphic novel' label much.) After all, Alan Moore is one of me heroes ! !! It's purely for a bit of money in the bank for my old age, and TM's. BUT I understand your feelings, Zanne. If I had a good paying job, where I was liked, I'd prolly feel the same way...

(By the by, Zanne, If I've offended you by not PM'ing back, I do apologize.)

so 'drinking the Flavouraid' is to say, a true believer.

Merle

May go back further then that. Think they've had "drink testers" around for a long time.

I went to the discussion on the God of the Bible, Serious Girl. Not up to joining in at the moment. Re your name: for some reason I thought the quote was 'Sin boldly that grace may abound.' That misquote has been a favourite of mine.

Loved your King James crack.

There used to be a sign nailed to a tree on one of the back roads near Puyallup that read, "Christ died for your sins."

To which I always replied, "So sin more! Don't let Him have died for nothing!"