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Trashing the green room makes it something to write home about, so future hosts would be more careful about reading over the instructions

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Maybe not in the van Halen example, but such behaviour bears the risk of forcing the supplier to optimize for the "brown M&M" and ignore the rest. Especially if you don't check for all the other stuff as well.

That's why you save the truth about the brown M&Ms for your autobiography.

That’s a useful addition. I was thinking it is kind of pointless to have this indicator that only tells you that something might be wrong when it is too late. The article does not address this aspect if I’m not mistaken.

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