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

[Island Blue]

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?

[JohnKleeb]

1. Easy no lettuce or tomatoes on my sandwhiches

[WildEyedLiberal]

2. NO OLIVES

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.

[Island Blue]

5. You just reminded me of another of my special requests WEL

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

[JohnKleeb]

6. Oh yeah olives are gross

[JI7]

12. me too, olives and raw tomatoes

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

13. I hate olives on 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:

[JohnKleeb]

14. Yeah they're awful

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.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. I hate Lima beans

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.

[Mass]

4. No celery or carrots. No parmesan either.

[_dynamicdems]

7. Are you kidding? They want picky, I could give them picky.

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

Chocolates on the pillow. Local or good quality.

Hazelnut coffee and keep it coming.

No salads, unless served with ranch dressing made with boursin cheese is available. No veal. No instant mashed potatoes.

Reading material: NY Times and the local paper.

Two extra pillows.

The bedspread and blankets must be freshly laundered.

A stocked mini-bar with fruit juice,soda and healthy snacks and fruit for guests.

A desk in the room (if a suite is not available) with two extra chairs.

A whirlpool bathtub (IF available).

An extra bathroom (if a suite).

A Nordic Track or a treadmill in the room if the room is large enough.

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

[globalvillage]

8. Oh, man...

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.
:-)

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. "Good water pressure"

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.

[globalvillage]

10. I remember once traveling with my old boss

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.

[jillan]

22. How about a bottle opener in your room

Never know when that could come in handy :)

[globalvillage]

23. Hehe.

Thank God for the pool guy, huh?

[jillan]

25. or-

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

[globalvillage]

26. He's a republican

from Texas, no less. What do you expect?

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

[sandnsea]

11. Oh my, always

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:

[_dynamicdems]

17. Hmmm....how about....

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

[globalvillage]

18. Recommended

The Doral Spa in Miami.

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

[_dynamicdems]

27. Holy smokes! I...ah....

:blush:

[sandnsea]

20. men, plural,

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:

[TayTay]

30. Must be Friday! The women are restless again.

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

31. I think you must officially rescind your Masshole citizenship

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?)

[TayTay]

32. I was unable to attend.

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

33. Oh yeah, you had to go back that night.

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'.

[TayTay]

35. I have been taken lately with midwestern accents.

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.)

[JohnKleeb]

36. What do you think of hte Minnesota accent

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.

[TayTay]

37. AHm, well, geez, I should send you a tape

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.

[JohnKleeb]

38. lol get on MP3 and get on AIM and send it to me

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

40. No, you don't sound southern

You just have a more generic American accent, IMO.

[JohnKleeb]

41. So do you m

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

[WildEyedLiberal]

43. Yeah

Amazing, isn't it?

[JohnKleeb]

44. Speaking of Chicago

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

[Island Blue]

45. I think Fire definitely sounds southern,

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.

[WildEyedLiberal]

39. My midwestern accent is pretty blah

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.

[JohnKleeb]

42. Wha? You dont sound valley at all

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.

[ginnyinWI]

46. you have to go rural to hear the most extreme accents

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

[JohnKleeb]

34. You don't like seafood? whats wrong with you?

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

[JI7]

15. cold ice water

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.

[Island Blue]

16. I'm not really picky about hotel accommodations.

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.

[fedupinBushcountry]

19. I forgot to answer the anything else

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

[politicasista]

21. Breakfast in bed and cable TV n/t

[jillan]

24. Water pressure - I agree, plus lots of hot water.

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.

[rox63]

28. No olives, no mustard, no horseradish, no pickled anything

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.

[ProSense]

29. Cooked carrots or pancakes

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: