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I did not make that definition up. Below are a few random examples from the internet of my definition being confirmed. I challenge you to find one definition that matches your bizarre use of the phrase.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Even%20a%20broken%20clock%20is%20right%20twice%20a%20day

1. Success obtained through dumb luck.

2. A rare moment of high achievement from an individual/team/company that is usually unsuccessful.
"I can't believe that Johnny took home that chick last night!"

"Yeah, well even a broken clock is right twice a day."

The origin is apparently from the Chinese proverb saying "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while":

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html

This expression means that even if people are ineffective or misguided, sometimes they can still be correct just by being lucky.
Read more at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/even+a+blind+squirrel+finds+a+nut+once+in+a+while.html#XxyDt8zIwgsX5oCy.99

http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2144

1. Even people who don't know what they are doing can be successful sometimes.
2. Lucky

Sorry, but face it. You ignorantly misused the colloquialism and are now having a hard time admitting it.

If you just stop and think about it...it makes sense. Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, it still doesn't mean you should consult the broken clock, right? Thus, the meaning is, if something TOTALLY USELESS occasionally is right, a single single success should not be read into too much.

Good luck to you in your future education.

Snopes is also wrong. "juste deserts" in french is "just rewards". Contrary to what snopes claims, it is not related to "just desserts" (hey, I'm from quebec, so I see these linguistic equivalents to backronyms all the time :-)

It's also one reason why I distinguish between American, Canadian, Quebec English and English. they really are different.

http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+1633

Finding a million examples of folks misusing any common phrase is not difficult. It doesn't make them right, either.

The top results from a quick Google search back up the description of drinking the kool-aid as an act of self-destructive or blind faith:

http://www.wordspy.com/words/drinktheKool-Aid.asp
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/92/debunk.html
http://www.wordorigins.org/Words/LetterD/drinkkool aid.html
Also, see the "Hacker Slang" section of the page at http://www.answers.com/topic/kool-aid

The only dissenting explanation is far more pithy, and evidences less research:
http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+19 48

Careful! It's a trick to try to get you to eat your gun... and that ain't a good thing to do.

=tkk

Right, but if their effort assumed everybody would be doing that they wouldn't bother with the effort in the first place.

In the wake of the conclusion of my attempt to comprehend your remark, I am currently vacillating between laying the blame for my failure at your feet or *mine.


*Best odds

Whatever else you might think of the merits of this project, ya gotta admit that it has an amusing logo.

If you don't get the joke, try this.

This will be useful exercise in shutting the barn door, covering the well after the baby's drowned, etc.

At least the EU bureaucracy gets some cash:)

I'd like to see correct, effective and appropriate action against Microsoft.

The deliberate, slow-moving legal systems in the US and EU seem to be effectively delivering some nominal punishment to the drug dealer after he's turned 65 years old, made his fortune, and his addicts are providing a solid income stream, and he's moving into entirely new lines of business.