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News & ArtsWednesday, October 21, 2009
At Large The Mysteries of Pullman, Washington
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM
This is in the trophy case—the trophy case?—at the Holiday Inn Express in Pullman, Washington:
So Dom and I are staying at 1996 Hotel of the Year... but... is it the hotel of the year out of all the hotels in the world? All the hotels in Pullman? All the Holiday Inn Express hotels? All the hotels built in 1996? I asked the receptionist. No one knows. It's a mystery.
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And did some inquisitive person before you also attempt to solve this mystery, only to become so frustrated that they somehow knocked the top off the thing? That's one ugly trophy.
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Dear Dan & Dom:
The beer at Rico's is good, but for the love of all that's holy, don't order any food.
Yours truly,
TVDinner
The beer at Rico's is good, but for the love of all that's holy, don't order any food.
Yours truly,
TVDinner
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By having the logo engraved in the award, and because this is a Holiday Inn Express in Pullman, I'm going with it being an award from Holiday Inn Express
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@6, a large agricultural college. Dan is probably going to get a lot of questions about sheep and cows. Can you have sex with wheat?
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Dan, are you speaking in Pullman? I'm a WSU student and never thought this day would come...details anyone?
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While on a road trip, I once ate a hamburger at a place touting "The World's Greatest Hamburgers!" Then drove another hundred miles and saw another place advertising the the world's greatest hamburgers. I had to stop and compare.
Neither was worthy of the title, in my humble opinion.
In fact, none of the World's Greatest Burgers I've ever eaten at various places were that great.
Talk is cheap.
Neither was worthy of the title, in my humble opinion.
In fact, none of the World's Greatest Burgers I've ever eaten at various places were that great.
Talk is cheap.
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... From a Farm Boy
Dan is not a farm boy, so no expert.
Sex in the crop fields, corn, wheat, you name it ... yes, that is where the action is at.
A coat, burlap sack, blanket maybe - and then a ton of good get it on earthly action.
By: Horny Bi Farm Boy
(no animals ever, boys and girls)
Dan is not a farm boy, so no expert.
Sex in the crop fields, corn, wheat, you name it ... yes, that is where the action is at.
A coat, burlap sack, blanket maybe - and then a ton of good get it on earthly action.
By: Horny Bi Farm Boy
(no animals ever, boys and girls)
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@14 - lol. Every now and then one of the lowly unregistered have a good one. You go, Fred of the Wind. I can just see you now, madly humping a straw tick. Talk about your nature lovers.
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I'm pretty sure that's the year that particular Holiday Inn Express opened, if I remember correctly. Having lived in town Pullman then, I remember the opening of HIE was a big deal, and at the time it really was a nice hotel. I still remember the free evening chocolate chip cookies and milk. Good times. It deserved the award then. Oh, and don't eat at Denny's next door.
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If the last time I won a yearly award was during the Clinton years, I would no longer be displaying it. It's just sad, just plain American sadness.
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Exactly, @17, eat at Petes Bar & Grill instead. Then go drink at Ricos. A great college bar that isn't overrun by frat douches.
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I worked at a HOliday Inn, and we won that award two years in a row. It's a Holiday Inn award, and it's actually quite competitive. Little known fact: most holiday Inns are not owned by Holiday Inns Incorporated, but are franchises. Anyway, somewhere I still have the commemorative nametag they gave me for that. I am not kidding.
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