Talk:Merry Pranksters

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)

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)

Removed paragraph
''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. 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.''

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)
 * Wavy gravy was still with the Pranksters in September 1969 at the Texas Pops festival. He and the Pranksters/Hog Farm ( one kind of melded into the other ) ran the free stage.  Further was definitely there.  Check out the link for confirmation. OR: Was there at Louisville, more or less.  Remember Wavy Gravy well as part of my throughly-misspent youth.  I had met Kesey and the Pranksters previously when they visited Larry McMurtry ( a professor at my college ) while on the lam in '66. Live fast, die young. Nucleophilic (talk) 03:30, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

"Eastward bus journey" section Paragraph 3:
In the section entitled "Eastward bus journey", the 3rd paragraph of which, and considering word 11, "further" should read "furthur" [sic] (note the 2nd "u" in place of the "e" of the "er" of the word "further"). Perhaps this could be edited in order to be factually and semantically correct in spelling, and explained with the use of [sic] if deemed necessary.

Hail Eris. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.19.51.11 (talk) 21:57, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

"Acid Test poster with Allen Ginsberg" in Section 3. of the present article is a known fake
According to the section "Posters & Ads" on the Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters website , the poster with caption "Acid Test poster with Allen Ginsberg", reproduced in section 3 "Later events" of this article (Merry Pranksters) is a fake.

The above referred to page (KEN KESEY & THE MERRY PRANKSTERS) sates the following regarding the poster: "This poster with Allen Ginsberg, supposedly promoting day 2 (the Acid Test) of the Trips Festival, is fake and recently manufactured."

Perhaps the poster could be replaced with a reproduction of an original. In any case, the present poster ought to be removed.

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Fish monger!
Has anyone come across a character called “Fish monger?(Jim Greer)? Raybobsky (talk) 13:28, 6 January 2024 (UTC)