Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
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Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#2A contract "poison pill" or litmus test. Pretty ingenious, is that sort of thing common practice in contracts?
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#3This seems like a good opportunity to post RMS' rider again:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...
Fabulous stuff. I wonder how often he has/gets to hang out with random parrots since this document became widely known. In my mind he is surrounded constantly by sandal-wearing acolytes wielding exotic birds of every variety.
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#4A contract "poison pill" or litmus test. Pretty ingenious, is that sort of thing common practice in contracts?
Yes its quite common now. Working in my high schools theater which was the largest in the town we'd get these types of requests so I imagine in they would be even more common for something that mattered
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#5Contrary to Snopes' last-updated, this is at least 10 years old.
Summary/spoiler: It was to ensure the contract was read thoroughly.
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#6A contract "poison pill" or litmus test. Pretty ingenious, is that sort of thing common practice in contracts?
Yes its quite common now. Working in my high schools theater which was the largest in the town we'd get these types of requests so I imagine in they would be even more common for something that mattered
Care to give an example of the sort of thing you encountered? Purely to satisfy a curious mind :)
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#7Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#8This seems like a good opportunity to post RMS' rider again: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer... Fabulous stuff. I wonder how often he has/gets to hang out with random parrots since this document became widely known. In my mind he is surrounded constantly by sandal-wearing acolytes wielding exotic birds of every variety.
This was interesting but disturbing nonetheless…
Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#9Contrary to Snopes' last-updated, this is at least 10 years old. Summary/spoiler: It was to ensure the contract was read thoroughly.
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Re: Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
#10Contrary to Snopes' last-updated, this is at least 10 years old. Summary/spoiler: It was to ensure the contract was read thoroughly.
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