Sometimes there really is method in their madness

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I always thought they sucked. Van Halen that is, not brown mms.

bill s








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From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tue, May 8, 2012 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: Sometimes there really is method in their madness


Yeah, I've actually heard that same explanation elsewhere, and I find it pretty 
onvincing.  I actually use it as an example with my students when attempting to 
xplain the importance of getting the formatting in their bibliographies/citations/etc. 
orrect: "This is the first thing any examiner is gonna look at. If you get it 
ight, they will assume you are not completely hopeless, and will treat the rest 
f your product reasonably fairly; if you get it wrong, they will assume you are 
n idiot, and treat the rest of your product accordingly."
I'm not sure how much the "Van Halen Brown M&M" story helps get that point 
cross, but it entertains me at least, so it stays in the "educational 
et-list".
Cheers,
arl
On 08 May 2012, at 08:34 , Mike Holmes wrote:
> I reckon the folks here might appreciate this one.
 
 http://thevaporwareblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/van_halen_hates_brown_mms/
 
 My take is that it only improves one of the legends of rock history to 
scertain that there was in fact some logic behind it. Perhaps a coda to 
anlon's Razor ought to be "Never ascribe to megalomania that which can be 
dequately explained by sheer cunning."
 
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