What are YOUR special requests? (A fun, Friday night question.)

We all read the Smoking Gun piece earlier this week, and now we know that JK & THK are just really damn picky people. :sarcasm: How about you? What would be on your list of must haves or no-no's if you were traveling around the country for more than a year running for POTUS?

As for me, my most adamant request (I think you call that a demand) would be that no mayonnaise, sour cream or salad dressing should ever touch the food that I am served!! Also, I don't eat mammals.(All of the sudden the Kerry's don't seem so strange, do they?)

How about you guys? Would you have any "demands" regarding food or anything else?

OLIVES ARE SATAN'S FRUIT! SATAN!!!!!!!!!

No tomatoes - I don't like those, either. Tomato-based products like ketchup, marinara sauce, and tomato soup are okay, but no actual tomatoes.

Hmm, other than that, I'll eat more or less anything.

I also don't like raw tomatoes (but tomato-based products are fine). Okay, I really am picky. My secret is out.

i'm not disgusted by them or anything. but i just don't like them. but almost everyone seems to like olives and want them when ordering pizza.

And it doesn't work for me to just pick them off. Olives are so foul that they leave a nasty bitter taint on anything they touch, so picking them off a pizza doesn't work, as the foul taste lingers on. It's hideous. :scared:

Now I used to hate mushrooms but now I like em on some stuff. Why would anyone want frigging olives on Pizza, Pizza is ebst when you do it classic with meat and extra cheese.

No paprika (ended up in the hospital from a reaction to it a year ago) and never any flavored or Dorito chips.

Must have diet pepsi, never coffee.

Hell, I'd be a regular DIVA!B-)





This is just off the top of my head. I'm certain that a week or so on the road would help me know what else to include. :7

Smoking room, king bed. Full service hotel (bar and decent restaurant on premises, late night room service)
Prefer both wired and wireless internet access, but will settle for one or other.
Decent cell phone coverage.
C-Span II fer cryin out loud. And MSNBC, Comedy Central.
Must have a gym on site or nearby.
Bottle of pinot, chilled or a decent red. Real wine glasses.
Good coffee in room. French Roast or similar bold. No paper cups.
Live wakeup calls. No machines.
Feather/down pillows.
Robe.
Shampoo/conditioner in separate bottles.
Actual bar of soap.
White sheets and bedding. No floral anything except live flowers.
Makeup mirror.
Good water pressure.

The press would have a field day with me. Of course, push comes to shove, I could sleep on an empty seat on the midtown bus.
:-)

God, that's the truth. I HATE taking showers when the water pressure sucks and the water falls slowly onto my head in heavy, big drips. HATE IT.

and another co-worker. When we met for breakfast, he was talking to his wife (a friend of mine) on the phone, and said the water pressure was so bad in the hotel that he thought about asking me and Jim to stand outside of the shower and spit on him just to get wet.

He always cracked me up.

Never know when that could come in handy :)

Thank God for the pool guy, huh?

Your co-worker that opens bottles with his teeth.
Ow!

from Texas, no less. What do you expect?

He is nice, though. And he has good teeth. Just politically challenged.

Extra pillows, preferably down
Crisp sheets, no holes, mends or stains
Fluffy towels
Brewed Coffee in room, frig a plus
Free internet that works
In-room movies
Indoor pool and whirlpool
No potpourri or artificial fresheners
No vinegar or pickled food anywhere in my vicinity

Hot hunky men must be every place that SNS is. I know this may seem trivial, but Hot Hunky Men, with BRAINS, make SNS very happy. :evilgrin:

a hot, hunky male masseuse who recites legislation in iambic pentameter?

The Doral Spa in Miami.

Full body massage. Ask for Julian. Not wonky, but you won't care.

:blush:

Gads, read the fine print already!!

I wouldn't be able to see the one giving me a massage. They must be everywhere SNS is! One must be lounging just below my eye level, in cut off jeans, opened just so.. and another on each side in case I should turn my head, and all should be capable of reciting legislation, historic tid bits, or literary quotes, depending on my ever-changing mood!

:rofl:

All I ask is a nice masseuse with strong fingers, a Spanish accent and really, really warm hands. Ahhhh. (A Cabana Boy would be nice too with a Corona.)

Ahm, for real. Ahm, I don't like overheated hotels. But there is nothing they can do about it so I try to be nice to the people anyway.

I despise seafood of any type. I can't eat it at all. (I don't mind other people eating seafood, though. I just can't stand the stuff. Especially lobster. Yuck. They look like big cockroaches. Who first decided to start eating these things anyway? I think it was the Arcadians, but then again they were French and probably thought those big bug-like things from the ocean would be 'good eating.' Yuck! My mother used to cook up eels and that was also disgusting. Her French grandmother had a recipe for eel soup or something. Oh gross. Nothing that naturally lives in water, yuck.)

Other than that, ahm, I require a bed. And at least one pillow. And a TV. And a toilet. And not necessarily in that order.

No seafood? That's as sacreligious as not eating beef in Nebraska! Or cheese in Wisconsin! Or chiles in New Mexico! Or - you get the picture.

(Btw now I'm curious. What on earth did you eat when you guys all went to Legal Seafoods in Boston the Saturday before our party?)

And was spared the Legal Seafoods 'sirloin steak' entree.

I like the ocean. I like Gloucester and I don't mind other people fishing and what not. But I cannot stand seafood. Yuck! Everyone else seems to like it so I am not endangering the fishing industry.

Besides, I have the accent already, they have to own up to me. I belong here. Despite the fish.

I forgot :blush: 'Course, I didn't eat there that night either, we had eaten an expensive meal earlier in the day so we had mall food court pizza. :P

You have the most adorable accent ever, btw. Just sayin'.

I adore the Wisconsin accent. It's quite nice. (Actually that accent is not just in Wisconsin, but you know what I mean.) I like the Chicago accent too!

BTW, thanks! I worried before the Boston meeting that I would have to employ a translator. Everyone was so nice about it. (Oh, and I introduced everyone to the charming phrase, 'they are friggin bastids.' You too can learn to talk like a longshoreman after one day with me.)

If you want to see it best in action, watch the film Fargo. I found myself talking like one of them at the end of the film. When I Was in Boston last year for that big meetup, I didn't see really anyone who sounded like the sterotypical Bostonian really.

Vek calls me on the phone sometimes just to hear me say:

Yeah and when yuhz getz to Bawston, I should take yuhz to Ktt-ree (Kittery) Maine so's yuhz can go bahgan (bargain) huntin.
By da way, it might be wicked, wicked hawt (hot) this summah. We ah in fah sum wicket skawchahs. (Ahm, a very hot and humid day. A wicked scorcher.)

It's nice to be needed.

I would love to try to transcribe it. I talk weird, I dunno ask WEL if I have a southern drawl because I don't think I do, I will say this though and I know WEL will agree with me that firespirit sounds VERY southern. I on the otherhand am just weird, sometimes I'll say yinz like a Pittsburgher would others a good ole southern y'all.

You just have a more generic American accent, IMO.

Havent you told me that the Chicago freaks have said you sounded like a hick?

Amazing, isn't it?

Their two baseball teams have won a whomping one world series in the past 89 years.

but it's a southern accent that I've never heard before (and I've lived here all of my life). She has a very beautiful and refined accent - I guess I'm used to accents that either have more twang or are softer, but in a different way than Fire's accent.

Actually, a couple of people have told me I sound like a California valley girl? :wtf:

I wish I had a Minnesota accent. Those are bitchin', doncha know.

Have you seen Fargo, man I was talking like a real Minnesotan dontcha know. I have to admit I know someone from the Twins Citise and she doesn't sound like that at sll.

Same thing here in WI. With one exception: kitchens of restaurants, factories and the like. You'll hear really thick regional accents there!

Seafood is the food of the gods. In fact I could go for some grilled tuna right now.

no wool. i know it's supposed to keep you warm, but can't stand it especially when sleeping.

hand, body lotion or cream. chapstick, lipgloss etc.

something comfortable to sit or lie down on if it's a long stay.

I would like the room to be dark and quite if possible, other than that all I need is a flat surface to sleep on and at least two pillows.

Edit because I forgot that "Check Spelling" is my friend.

Clean ice bucket, glass glasses, extra pillows and a TV that works.

Coffee maker in the room. And an ashtray.
Comfy bed...nothing worse than a cheap mattress in a hotel room.

And good insulation between the walls. I don't want to hear the
people in the next room.

And lots of towels.

Room service.

These substances are all evil incarnate, and must not touch anything I eat.

Stuff I want:
Good tea selection, and access to water hot enough to steep said tea. You don't want to talk to me before my morning caffeine.
Somewhere to get a decent breakfast, either attached to the hotel, or within a block or two.
Heat and/or ac that doesn't leave me and the air in the room as parched as the desert sands.
A in-room mini-fridge and a whirlpool tub would be absolutely marvy, but I suppose I could survive without them.

I like waffles, but I can never eat a whole pancake.

I use carrots to cook with and like them uncooked, but boiled/steamed carrots plain: :puke: