Make Your home COLLINWOOD!!!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I was sent this cartoon just this weekend!!! [you can substitute the appropriate DS reference....]

That cartoon is soooo true, Ringo. I can't remember any of the things I learned in classes that I could have cared less about, but I can remember all the major moments in every DS episode - and I can recite some of my favorite passages of dialogue completely from memory.

[Thom]

Fun topic! When I was a kid my mother had her hope chest in her walk in bedroom closet. It resembled (to my little kid eyes) Barnabas's coffin!

I went to a Catholic grade school in Cincinnati and one year our classes were held at the College of Mt. St. Joseph. It was an hill overlooking the Ohio River. The grounds remined me of Collinwood and a nearby road was called Sister's Hill(ala Widow's Hill) because it was windy and twisty and had steep cliffs looking over the river.

[Connie]

I was sent this cartoon just this weekend!!! [you can substitute the appropriate DS reference....]
http://www.mindspring.com/~winston9/memories

:-/

Yep - this cartoon is too true.
It's sad when ya have to keep looking at the calendar to try and remember what you're supposed to be doing.
BUT...there's no problem at all being able to sing every word of a Beatles song you haven't heard in years when it comes on the radio.
AND, not only sing the lead, but the harmony as well.
(Not at the same time, of course)  

Oh dear...forgot what this message was about...

-CLC

[Connie]

So dish, girl! Tell us 'bout this phone call! Do you still have the tape?

Umm...lol...well, maybe if a couple of other people want to know what transpired during the fateful call (oy vey), I'll spill the beans.  I'm sure I posted it somewhere during the last year or so.

No - I don't have the tape.  My friend has it SOMEWHERE but doesn't know where it's packed away.

-CLC  

[ROBINV]

Connie, I want to hear your Grayson Hall phone call story!

That said, I don't remember referring to my home in any Collinwood way, but I do remember walking into a dark-paneled, gloomy house while house-hunting, and turning to my husband to say, "This reminds me of DARK SHADOWS!"  (But not in a good way--we didn't purchase the house).

While I watched DARK SHADOWS in junior high, I was taking French, and our teacher told us to give ourselves a French name.  I was Josette, of course, and it make French class a lot more interesting to me to be called by the name of Barnabas' love.

I have to go to the drawing room now--later!

Love, Robin

[DrJulia]

Well, the space where the carpet seam is after the front door, before the living room is the foyer. Our living room/family room is the drawing room. Our small crappy basement is the mausoleum. The attic is the Old House. My yard could be the woods (it has a veggie garden). My room could be Vicki's room. Our computer room could be the West Wing. The larger bedroom could be Liz's room. I have a very Collinwood house. Cool!

[Daphne]

Umm...lol...well, maybe if a couple of other people want to know what transpired during the fateful call (oy vey), I'll spill the beans.  I'm sure I posted it somewhere during the last year or so.

-CLC  

Yes yes, I want 2 know! oooooo I'm dying of curiosity! tell tell tell tell tell tell ttteeeellllllllllllll    

[DrJulia]

I wanna hear the tape! Pleease pleeeze pleeeeeeze

[Bj]

On a similar VEIN, there's this cemetary I walk thru near work, and just last week I stopped to read two grave stones that were near each other:  one was inscribed "Collins" and the other "Stoddart"!  

[Lindsey]

Robin,

You had mentioned you had the name Josette in French class. We do the same thing in Spanish class, of course with Spanish names. While there aren't too many Spanish names on Dark Shadows, I was able to find one that I really liked and now use. Leticia! The Spanish pronounciation sounds awesome. Instead of La-tish-a, it is Lay-tee-cee-ah. I love it!

-Lindsey AKA Leticia

[Luciaphile]

Well, I currently live in one room and I call it the "crayola box," (moved back home with the folks to finish up my degree and the walls are midnight blue  ), but that has nothing to do with DS

Luciaphil

[Dr. Eric Lang]

Well, I currently live in one room and I call it the "crayola box," (moved back home with the folks to finish up my degree and the walls are midnight blue  ), but that has nothing to do with DS

Luciaphil

Oh I don't know . . . you could tell people you live in "The Secret Room"  

[Luciaphile]

Oh I don't know . . . you could tell people you live in "The Secret Room"  

Alas and alack, I can't:

1. No lock on the door
2. My mother's closet is up here so she's constantly in the room.
3. The crawl spaces are accessed through it (so both the parental units are up here)
4. I have electric light  

Luciaphil

[Connie]

Yes yes, I want 2 know! oooooo I'm dying of curiosity! tell tell tell tell tell tell ttteeeellllllllllllll    

Y'all wantin' to hear about the Grayson Hall phone call....

I'll post it in a day or two, okay?  

There's been a sudden death in my family and I'm not able to get into my "Julia nonsense" frame of mind at the moment.  Hang in.

-Connie

[scout75]

There's been a sudden death in my family and I'm not able to get into my "Julia nonsense" frame of mind at the moment.

Sorry to hear that, Connie. Many condolences...