DIS Radio

[RatatouilleFoodie]

On average, DIS Radio costs us around $1,000 per month.

Don't you mean $1,000 a year. A friend of mine has one of the Live365 Professional rock stations and pays $2,000 yearly. Did you mean a year?

 

[WebmasterCorey]

Don't you mean $1,000 a year. A friend of mine has one of the Live365 Professional rock stations and pays $2,000 yearly. Did you mean a year?

Nope. I meant per month. In addition to the standard monthly fees, the more listener hours a station has the more it is per month.

 

[RatatouilleFoodie]

Nope. I meant per month. In addition to the standard monthly fees, the more listener hours a station has the more it is per month.

I guess that's a bummer for you. I'm familiar with how it works, like I said a friend of mine owns a LIVE365 Pro station and that's not how it works for him. Wonder why yours would be different than the others?

 

[dpuck1998]

I guess that's a bummer for you. I'm familiar with how it works, like I said a friend of mine owns a LIVE365 Pro station and that's not how it works for him. Wonder why yours would be different than the others?

Not to be argumentative, but you know how your friends station works, not all the others. I think Corey explained the way more listeners equals more cost. That doesn't sound like it is any different than others. What makes you think "Yours would be different than others?"

 

[hookedonears]

Drinking the Kool-Aid I think is a poor choice of words for donating to Dis Radio. My understanding of Drinking the Kool-Aid is following someone or a cause because one has been mislead, or deceived. I don't think drinking the Cool-aid is a good analogy for making a donation to keep Dis Radio on the air and advertisement free.

 

[dpuck1998]

Drinking the Kool-Aid I think is a poor choice of words for donating to Dis Radio. My understanding of Drinking the Kool-Aid is following someone or a cause because one has been mislead, or deceived. I don't think drinking the Cool-aid is a good analogy for making a donation to keep Dis Radio on the air and advertisement free.

Perhaps not, but I'm 100 percent sure Mike was joking. Tongue in cheek...

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I guess that's a bummer for you. I'm familiar with how it works, like I said a friend of mine owns a LIVE365 Pro station and that's not how it works for him. Wonder why yours would be different than the others?

I would guess that DIS Radio has more listeners then your friend's station then. I don't listen to rock music online, because I can find plenty of rock stations on the actual radio, I need to go online to listen to Disney music.

 

[Tonya2426]

We drank the kool-aid also.

Drinking the Kool-Aid I think is a poor choice of words for donating to Dis Radio. My understanding of Drinking the Kool-Aid is following someone or a cause because one has been mislead, or deceived. I don't think drinking the Cool-aid is a good analogy for making a donation to keep Dis Radio on the air and advertisement free.

I was curious so I looked it up on Wikipedia. My mother said I was always looking stuff up as a child so I guess I haven't changed much - it is just easier now with the internet.

Drinking the Kool-Aid

The phrase Drinking the Kool-Aid means to become a firm believer in something, to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly.

The term originated with the Jonestown Massacre, although as set forth below, evidence gathered at the site after the incident indicated that it was actually Flavor-Aid, a similar powdered drink, which was used in the massacre.

Origins

The term has its origins in the events of the Jonestown cult suicide. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, had persuaded followers to move to Jonestown, Guyana and found a commune. In November of 1978, faced with exposure, he had U.S. Representative Leo Ryan killed and ordered the residents to commit suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide. Those unable to comply, such as infants, and those unwilling to comply received involuntary injections. Roughly 918 people died.

Present-day descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage, not as Kool Aid, but as Flavor Aid, a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site. Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool Aid, has stated the same. Implied by this accounting of events is that the reference to the "Kool Aid" brand owes exclusively to its being better-known among Americans. Others are less categorical. Both brands are known to have been among the commune's supplies: Film footage shot inside the compound prior to the events of November shows Jones opening a large chest in which boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid are visible. Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "cool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "cool aid" or "Cool Aid." However, it is unclear whether they intended to refer to the actual Kool-Aid–brand drink or were using the name in a generic sense that might refer to any powdered flavored beverage.
Use

The earliest known use of the term in its figurative sense, is from a 1987 statement about former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry in the Washington Post.

An earlier usage than 1987 can be attested at least as early as 1982 in the film The Slumber Party Massacre by Amy Holden Jones. In the scene where Valerie 'Val' Bates prepares Kool-Aid, she offers a glass to her sister and says, "As the famous Jim Jones once said: 'Should have been drinking Kool-Aid.'"

In 2002, Arianna Huffington reintroduced the term in an article titled "Wacko in Waco", comparing those who followed George W. Bush to a delusional cult.

More recently, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly is known for using the term in this manner.
Alternative meaning

The expression first refers to the activities of the Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with novelist Ken Kesey who, in the early 1960s, traveled around the United States and held events called "Acid Tests", where LSD-laced Kool-Aid was passed out to the public (LSD was legal in the U.S. until 1966). Those who drank the "Kool-Aid" passed the "Acid Test". "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in that context meant taking LSD. These events were described in Tom Wolfe's 1968 classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test". However the expression is never used figuratively in the book, but only literally.

 

[cnetbuild]

Corey - Ads are OK. People expect it. It'll help to make dis radio scaleable and encourage its growth.

 

[k5jm]

Originally Posted by k5jmh
We drank the kool-aid also.

Quote:
Originally Posted by hookedonears
Drinking the Kool-Aid I think is a poor choice of words for donating to Dis Radio. My understanding of Drinking the Kool-Aid is following someone or a cause because one has been mislead, or deceived. I don't think drinking the Cool-aid is a good analogy for making a donation to keep Dis Radio on the air and advertisement free.

Quote:
Originally Posted by tonya2426:
I was curious so I looked it up on Wikipedia. My mother said I was always looking stuff up as a child so I guess I haven't changed much - it is just easier now with the internet.

Drinking the Kool-Aid

The phrase Drinking the Kool-Aid means to become a firm believer in something, to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly.

We also jokingly refer to drinking the Kool-aid as joining in with our fellow DISBOARDIANS and it is in no-way meant in a disrespectful manor but more of a "we are in also!" As Don said, "tongue-in-cheek."

Now I must stick out my arms in front of me, with glazed-over eyes and chant mindlessly "Stay out of the Damn Lakes."

 

[Launchpad11B]

Now I must stick out my arms in front of me, with glazed-over eyes and chant mindlessly "Stay out of the Damn Lakes."

I really did laugh out loud when I read this Mike. I can picture you doing this and for some reason it's cracking me up!

 

[k5jm]

I really did laugh out loud when I read this Mike. I can picture you doing this and for some reason it's cracking me up!

See!! Paul gets it!!

 

[dpuck1998]

We also jokingly refer to drinking the Kool-aid as joining in with our fellow DISBOARDIANS and it is in no-way meant in a disrespectful manor but more of a "we are in also!" As Paul said, "tongue-in-cheek."

Now I must stick out my arms in front of me, with glazed-over eyes and chant mindlessly "Stay out of the Damn Lakes."

See!! Paul gets it!!

Awesome zombie.....doubletap!!

 

[k5jm]

Perhaps not, but I'm 100 percent sure Mike was joking. Tongue in cheek...

Doh, I meant Don! Paul, if Don had a blow-up spicket on his side, then we could inflate him to look like you!.

 

[dpuck1998]

Doh, I meant Don! Paul, if Don had a blow-up spicket on his side, then we could inflate him to look like you!.

Don't even think about blowing me up Mike....sicko

 

[TXYankee]

Did I miss a Kool Aid Party?

I love Kool Aid and the cute colored mustache resulting from Kool Aid Drinking!

 

[k5jm]

Don't even think about blowing me up Mike....sicko

- 3.4xDon=1 Paul

 

[ADP]

Doh, I meant Don! Paul, if Don had a blow-up spicket on his side, then we could inflate him to look like you!.

Don't even think about blowing me up Mike....sicko

- 3.4xDon=1 Paul

Oooof....This is brutal!
Mike - Puttin' the smack down on Puck.

 

[dpuck1998]

- 3.4xDon=1 Paul

Where is the Mike formula?

 

[Cyrano]

Drinking the Kool-Aid I think is a poor choice of words for donating to Dis Radio. My understanding of Drinking the Kool-Aid is following someone or a cause because one has been mislead, or deceived. I don't think drinking the Cool-aid is a good analogy for making a donation to keep Dis Radio on the air and advertisement free.

That is not the way I meant it nor how most people on these boards refer to it

I would not read any more into it other than an acknowledgement of being with like minded friends