Mmmmmmm

[pat]

I was poking around Snopes, which is a fun thing to do in your spare time, when I ran across the "Van Halen required a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed" rumor. Turns out, it was true... sort of.

Apparently, the provision was placed in the contracts as a canary in a coal mine: it was stuck in the middle of nowhere, and the purpose was to check and see that the people staging the things had actually read the technical specs for the show. If they got back and there were no brown M&Ms, it indicated that the people had actually read and complied with the contract.

(And yes, David Lee Roth did throw a hissy fit at the University of Colorado and trashed the backstage area, but the real damage to the arena was caused when the staging sunk through the new basketball floor because the promoters hadn't bothered to check about the weight requirements.)

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[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Well, they point out what might not be so useful about that. That men's rooms, especially in concert halls, don't usually have a lot of stalls. I guess by law a certain number are required depending on how big the place is but men's rooms are mostly urinals or troughs even.

Now I'm not saying that women couldn't piss in troughs or all together in a line of urinals but it seems like most, at least that I know, prefer a little more privacy and sometimes even a little toilet paper.