You, Strange, are a cad.

There are some thing even the finest drugs will have a hard time erasing from memory—Famous Wet Burritos (loved their first album) for one, and the Mexican Lovers customer-submitted pics for two.

They missed a trick by not going full-on Heaven’s Gate Surprise (only 39 deaths per portion!), but then I was too afeared to Click For More on Up Coming Events, so they may be ahead of me there.

‘Wet burritos’ - ewwww ... sounds like a cult meal to me.

Non-snark observation: when the comment ‘drinking the Kool-aid’ became part of the intertube vernacular, was when we lost any sense of what happened at Jonestown. But, as a US white middle-class college student in 1978 when Jonestown happened, the news defined it to me as something that ‘crazy [non-white] people did’, and I felt a shudder of horror, and then just kept on cutting classes, smoking pot, and just getting on with being a hippie (late-stage) student. There is such a distance between students in the late 70s - possession of a television was rare and watching one usually a collective experience, like a football game or early screenings of Saturday Night Live - and nowadays, when everyone on campus has total access to all media. I wonder how many people under the age of, say, 35, know just how horrific the allusion is to the phrase ‘drinking the Kool-aid’ and if they would even care.

Sorry, too serious - must…stop…now

Sorry - seems YAFB and Ms Yafb were simultaneously posting and we have completely different takes on this. The fact that my bidie-in (Scottish for the bloke/bird who’s living with you) has such happy memories of Wet Burritos is, well, disturbing to me, unless he is referring to the Flying Burrito Brothers, which I could forgive him for (as I am an old late-hippie) - but I’m not askin’ - nope ...

Ah, Hacienda. It is exactly what you would expect from a Mexican-style restaurant chain based in South Bend.

as a US white middle-class college student in 1978 when Jonestown happened, the news defined it to me as something that ‘crazy [non-white] people did

Interesting. I remember it as a fairly mixed group of people, but I was only 10 and may be confusing Jones with the other childhood boogie: Charles Manson.

I wonder how many people under the age of, say, 35, know just how horrific the allusion is to the phrase ‘drinking the Kool-aid’ and if they would even care.

I am going out on a limb here and say “Do not care.”

I hear people casual use terms like lynch, ghetto, tar baby, and uncle Tom without any irony or understanding of their historical origins. I am so desensitized to this ahistorical rendering of words into common usage, I guess this isn’t that shocking to me.

I remember it as a fairly mixed group of people

I believe it was, but being located in Guyana probably muddied the waters in the media.

PWC, a theater critic in Chicago just reviewed a play by an African American playwright, which she hated. And she managed to include this:

Remember how the Duke and Earl in Huckleberry Finn were driven out of town by an angry audience that knew it had been swindled? Bradshaw had better start running. He is the emperor with no clothes.

Aside from mixing Twain and Hans Christian Andersen metaphors, I’m gobsmacked that somebody could reference Twain, and then suggest that a black playwright should start heading out of town before they, um, lynch him. I guess.

Bradshaw had better start running. He is the emperor with no clothes.

Maybe it was supposed to be a Ray Stevens reference.

If you just came up with the phrase, “Waco Taco,” take a bow.

Thanks, Jamey! My only regret is I probably should have said “It’s ‘En Fuego!’”