The Perils of Popcorn
At our former law firm, the making of microwave popcorn was strictly prohibited. Marty Lipton didn’t like the hallways smelling like a movie theater. As we previously observed, “When you’re trying to close a billion-dollar deal, a sudden hankering for a 32-ounce Coke can be very distracting.”
So… Is the City of Seattle about to follow suit? Details here.
City of Seattle may ban microwave popcorn [King5.com via Drudge Report]
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First. Yay. Who gives a fuck?
The article title is misleading. Seattle isn't going to ban microwave popcorn throughout the whole city, just inside certain municipal buildings.
Sinatra would be proud...
Akin Gump has likewise banned popcorn because the fire alarms kept getting set off when someone accidentally punched 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes then walked away.
Bet it was the Akin Gump Escort.
(Since she also bills by the hour, she can't waste time sitting around watching popcorn.)
Microwave popcorn is f'ing nasty. I really hate the lawyers at my firm who make it and stink up the kitchen microwave for days.
Popcorn workers lung. Diacetyl (artificial butter flavoring that is suffocating workers slowly and painfully.) Wish I were kidding.
It's the black lung disease of the 21st Century Workforce.
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/osha-diacetyl-legislation/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR2007050601089.html
I never wroked for a firm that banned popcorn, but we should have.
On day a secretary tried to make popcorn in a metal container, the microwave caught fire, and y the time I burst on the scene an associte was going to town in the kitchen with a chemical fire extinguisher.
Did Marty Lipton say "Let them eat cake" when enforcing his ban on the staff having popcorn?
No, he said "Let them eat Mint Milanos."
(The WLRK pantries were stocked with Pepperidge Farm cookies.)