Brown M&M's

Do you ever wonder where people get some of the things they beleive are real? It's amazing how often some misinformation or urban legend gets loose in this cyber-crazy world and people take it as the truth and run with it. Or worse, they don't care if it's the truth and pass it along because it's just too juicy to let lie.
I have found that that even extends to many people's perception of the Bible. In one of my all-time favorite movies, Rocky, the fighter's manager, Mick, tells Rockey, "It's like the Good Book says, 'You don't get no second chances.'" Huh? But so many are guilty of such biblical ignorance.
I bring this up because of a recent editorial by Michael Smerconish in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He quoted Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth's explanation as to why the band wanted no brown M&Ms backstage during its concerts.
Understand that many big-name entertainment acts have a "rider" in their contract detailing what they want before a show. Such clauses demand everything from specific equipment down to what food they want backstage. Van Halen requested M&Ms but absolutely no brown ones.
When those details became public the band became known as the poster boys for being spoiled.
However, Roth says there was a very legitimate reason for the odd request. He said Van Halen was the first group to be using a very sophisticated lighting system that required different accommmodations than standard lighting used by most every other act. To ensure that staging the show was done properly, the group included the M&M clause in it's rider to make sure the full contract specifications were met. If brown M&M's showed up backstage, they knew some of the important demands may have been ignored and safety issues could occur.
This is a roundabout way of stressing how important Bible study is. If we don't read what God has given us, we're apt to believe anything anyone says as the gospel truth!