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Origin of "to drink the kool-aid"

I'm requesting a source that can authoritatively track "drinking the kool-aid" to the Merry Pranksters--or, indeed, to any date earlier than the mid-1980s. This sounds pretty dubious, but I'm happy to be proved wrong. Making similar edit to Kool-Aid. --Craigkbryant 20:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Having waited a week, I am removing this assertion from the article. I have made a similar change to Kool-Aid, and added a reference to that article giving the Jonestown version of the origin.--Craigkbryant 14:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Membership in the Pranksters

I removed the following as POV, OR, and unreferenced.

People who consider themselves Pranksters in spirit are said to be "on the bus" whether or not they ever actually took a bus trip with Kesey. In other words, the bus has become a metaphor for the lifestyle of anyone who is in solidarity with the psychedelic movement and who encourages others to have 'mind-expanding' experiences, with or without drugs.

Kesey was strict about what should constitute a proper prank. He said a successful prank must not physically hurt anyone, and the person being pranked must in some way be enlightened by the experience.

If anyone can find a source for any of this, and rewrite it for proper balance, feel free to do so. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 18:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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It was hoped that the attempted 1964 meeting between Kesey and Leary would resolve this disagreement in a way that would draw on the strengths of both approaches. However, when Kesey and the Pranksters arrived at Millbrook they discovered that Leary had just crashed from a three-day acid binge and could not be revived sufficiently to do more than briefly greet his guests^{[citation needed]}. Plans for a subsequent summit became impossible when both Kesey and Leary were imprisoned on drug charges. Ken Babbs and Wavy Gravy assumed the leadership of the Pranksters while Kesey was incarcerated. Fearing for his own safety after Kesey's imprisonment, Neal Cassady fled to Mexico where he died soon after of exposure related to overuse of drugs.Wavy Gravy would eventually leave the Pranksters to establish his own group, The Hog Farm.^{[citation needed]}

I cannot find any reference that Wavy Gravy "left" the group in either of his his 2 books, or that he was in charge of Prankster Marcia Wright (talk) 05:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 If anyone can find a source for any of this, and rewrite it for proper balance, feel free to do so. ---<font face="Georgia">'''[[User:RepublicanJacobite|<span style="color:#009900">RepublicanJacobite</span>]]'''<sub>''[[User talk:RepublicanJacobite|<span style="color:#006600">The'FortyFive'</span>]]''</sub></font> 18:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
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+''It was hoped that the attempted 1964 meeting between Kesey and Leary would resolve this disagreement in a way that would draw on the strengths of both approaches. However, when Kesey and the Pranksters arrived at Millbrook they discovered that Leary had just crashed from a three-day acid binge and could not be revived sufficiently to do more than briefly greet his guests{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}}. Plans for a subsequent summit became impossible when both Kesey and Leary were imprisoned on drug charges. Ken Babbs and Wavy Gravy assumed the leadership of the Pranksters while Kesey was incarcerated. Fearing for his own safety after Kesey's imprisonment, Neal Cassady fled to Mexico where he died soon after of exposure related to overuse of drugs.Wavy Gravy would eventually leave the Pranksters to establish his own group, [[Hog Farm|The Hog Farm]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}''
-This sentence :  ''Wavy Gravy would eventually leave the Pranksters to establish his own group, [[Hog Farm|The Hog Farm]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}''I cannot find any reference that [[Wavy Gravy]] "left" the group in his 2 books.
+I cannot find any reference that [[Wavy Gravy]] "left" the group in either of his his 2 books, or that he was in charge of Prankster
 [[User:Marcia Wright|Marcia Wright]] ([[User talk:Marcia Wright|talk]]) 05:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC)