Towse: views from the hill » BART http://towse.com/wordpress Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:01:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 Peeves of the Day (AKA POTD) http://towse.com/wordpress/2008/11/19/peeves-of-the-day-aka-potd/ http://towse.com/wordpress/2008/11/19/peeves-of-the-day-aka-potd/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:16:00 +0000 http://towse.com/wordpress/2008/11/19/peeves-of-the-day-aka-potd/ (1) People who refer to BART as “the BART” — Take a bow, San Francisco Hyatt Regency – Embarcadero.

I also cringe at hip DJs and traffic reporters who refer to our freeways as “the 101″ and “the 280.” That sort of terminology is fine for people south of the San Berd’o line, but we are living in Northern California.

(2) Writerly folks who still write (on this the thirtieth anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre) that Jim Jones’ followers committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.

FLAVOR AID, folks. FLAVOR AID.

All that “don’t drink the Kool-Aid” advice is based on a reference to the wrong powdered drink. Stop it. I’m sure the Kool-Aid folks join me in this request.

Here’s some little known Kool-Aid history and trivia. Enjoy.

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