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Michel Boucher wrote:
> "gloria.p" > wrote in -
> september.org:
>
>>> Decades of dining at quality restaurants provides the knowledge of what
>>> should be expected. If your classiest dining experience is Applebee's,
>>> then I can see why you would not comprehend the waitstaff's
>>> responsibilities.

>> Does anyone else find it funny that "You eat at Applebees" has replaced
>> "Your mother wears combat boots" as a serious insult?

>
> I'm surprised he didn't suggest that I "drank the kool-aid" (whatever that
> means!).
>


On the off chance that you really don't know what it means, it's a
reference to the Jonestown massacre, in which hundreds of people
committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid (though I hear it was really
Flavor-Aid) with cyanide in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

Serene

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