Reminds me of Van Halen's "No brown M&M's" rider clause.
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Thunderbird Club
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Please call my counseling hotline. 867-5309!
A friend is a chef and used to cater various events. Some stars are as nutty as the stories that circulate. One guy wanted a large amount of a certain weird and expensive bottled water. Jim ordered it but one of the help was in the artist's bus setting up some food and said the guy had a truck load already in his bus from hoarding his excessive water orders. Jim told her to just take some of his cases and set out and return the others. Some artists were nice--others seriously needed professional help.
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I do not remember ever reaching the point at which drinking should be ceased for the day...
When I'm sleeping - I never touch a drop.
VH's case wasn't as nutty as it seems. They did that as a test to see if the facility was paying attention to their requests. If they saw they didn't honor that, then they wouldn't have paid attention to their power needs for their show, etc.
What genre is “Uhhh…” if not soft jazz?
Do you know how many kinds and sizes of hammers there are?
Dunno 'bout that, but I had a story come in on my news feed referring to a bunch of sledge hammers being recalled 'cos the heads would fly off.
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The US Army has a brownie recipe and it is 26 pages long.
See? That’s one of the types you only pick for weaponry, not carpentry or body work.
Soul in the style of James Brown?
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"adult urban contemporary"
I kind of see VHs point. I'm just not sure how effective it would have been. It would work on some level of knowing they read the rider and honored that one relatively easy aspect, but it was no surety they would keep more difficult and costly parts. It definitely would affirm that their requests were at least read, beyond that I'm not sure it would prove much. But maybe it worked.
I'm certain I don't. I also hope wouldn't take 33 pages (to be exact), to help me get there for typical situations. The guy that read it didn't come away with it being that kind of problem being solved, but that is was something that was simply too verbose that would hardly, if ever, be seen in the private sector. Maybe it made sense in some way, but it didn't to him.
This didn't seem uncommon from what my wife experienced when working at Ft. Knox when we were dating. Over simplification here, but she would chat about what she did that day and would be procedures for handling maintenance requests (paperwork). She would tell of the convoluted path that would be taken at times just to get the paperwork to the finial person to sign off. The first time she talked about what she did one day I started asking why it seemed so odd to get things where they needed to be. Just get the end person or one who needed to know the paperwork and skip all people who just look at it and send it on to the next. She said it didn't make sense to anyone there, but that was how it was set up and you don't question it. Likely one of those situations where the process was set up and just added to as time went on without stopping and evaluating the big picture and things just got cumbersome, and since no one was looking to the bottom line like a business has to, there was not much incentive to tear it up and start over.
This happens with large companies, but at times they will pay outsiders to come in and evaluate how they do things and to find blind spots that they have grown accustomed to over the years. A friend's father used to do that for companies. He would follow people around, learn what they did and see if there were better ways of doing it. Some times what seemed odd to an outsider did make sense, often it was simply process "creep," or even at times people creating process to justify their jobs. My wife retired from a Fortune 50 company and at times would see that kind of poorly defined process. Toward the end of her time she would have input and be able to question things and suggest better ways of doing some things. Often because the process was set up at the main office by people who never had to actually work the process and never really understood what task needed to be accomplished. They just looked at the process, and on paper it seemed to work just fine. At times she would have to tell people in the big office that what they devised didn't work because they didn't understand what was involved. Most knew that and agreed.
Thunderbird. Kind of...
The fonts are just really big. I hope.
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Blue Monday................
I'm ass draggin' into work, really beat from rehearsal last night.
I'm ass draggin' into work, really beat from rehearsal last night.
