Originally Posted by joedish

Maybe this was like the contract riders that famous rock bands have. For example, Van Halen used to always have in the contract rider that they were to get M&Ms with the green M&Ms removed. It wasn't so much that they didn't want to have green M&Ms or that they were trying to be snooty, but rather they were putting that in there as a sensor for how much attention to detail was being paid to their requests because they had other important things in there.