This is likely my farewell post, and Bugsie's too. Such a short time ...... 

Unfortunately, the way the internet is nowadays, there are spammers who flood forums with junk, trying to hawk their wares forcefully. To defend against it, places like DSF have anti-flood timers in place that prevent posts too soon after the previous post. The timer prevents repeat posts from the same IP address. Well, we have DSL at home, and the whole household (5 PCs, wireless router and a common DSL line) has the same IP which is dynamically assigned by the ISP. There is no way to change that. My only other option would be to use dialup

That means that it is next to impossible for Bugsie and I to participate here because we likely would be on at the same time at many times during the day. Having that constant error message would take all the joy out of it. I've experienced it several times already.

It's a shame because we would probably have shot to the top of your posting ranks within a year because I personally have 28,000 posts on my forum, and Pam has about 24,000 We are no strangers to actively posting away, and we both expected to be very active here. But with that kind of anticipated activity from our IP, there's no way we could try to maneuver our posting here so as to avoid the timer, by assigning "your time to post" and "my time to post" It would be too frustrating for us. We have discussed it and we both agree.

While I have the anti-flood timers disabled on my own forum, and have had no trouble since all members must be activated by the admin before posting, I'm sure there are good reasons for having such a limitation here. I've already communicated my questions and feelings about this to Midnite, and Midnite has replied that this is an unavoidable feature that can't be disabled.

So, adios Dark Shadows Forums. It's been nice

I'll stop in a couple more times later to check PMs, in case Midnite finds a solution. I've got my fingers crossed

Hi Bugsie

There are much more subtle nuances in the character development that we could have missed as kids, in fact probably did. I was like you - I felt cheated if Barnabas wasn't on that day. At the time it was like watching Bewitched without Samantha

I particularly like how the relationship between Barnabas and Julia has gradually developed. Remember early on they were mortal enemies - Julia only cooperated because she had to, and for the professional interest.

Which brings me to this question - How did Julia find the time to run Wincliff? She was always at Collinwood or the old house

Nope.  As I said in my response to your introductory post, before I saw this one:  I don't like Humphrey Bogart, but I do like Jerry Lacy.  I carefully studied the pictures in your post to figure out why, and could not come up with a solid answer...but I didn't change my mind.

"Nope" to the resemblance, or "Nope" to liking them both?

For many, certainly - but not for all of us. As I've posted many times before (so I'll keep this one brief  ), there are also fans who love the entire package that is DS - and as shocking as it may be to some, not only can we actually enjoy all the various plots that don't feature Barnabas, we can even imagine a DS that could have continued well past the point that Barnabas would have been written out. Many soaps have featured central characters on a par with the popularity of Barnabas and they've all managed to survive well past those characters' departures. Yes, the shows have often become very different from what they were when those characters were a part of them - but they have endured - and in most cases, even thrived afterward...


And welcome aboard, Professor Stokes! 

Thank you, mister admin (I sent you a PM, by the way).

In all fairness to the show, yes, it probably could have gone on without Barnabas. But we'll never know. It also could have fallen flat without him, never achieving the lofty status that it did ...doomed for cancellation. Who knows? But he stayed on the show, even during the time [spoiler]he was cured and wasn't biting anyone. You could say that was the period of his DS career when it was ...<ahem> ..."a fangless job" [/spoiler]

(That pun wasn't my fault - I was inspired by your calculus sig  )

Wow. Thanks again for all the warm welcomes! What a great forum!

Dark Shadows gets mentions all over. Here is a new topic I started on my forum, entitled "Spooky Resemblance". Keep in mind that the typical member there has never heard of Dark Shadows, so I needed to fill them in a bit. I posted this in our "Popcorn" forum where we discuss movies and TV, among other things. Enjoy!
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A little background first.

Back in the Pre-Cambrian period, 1966 - 1971, when dirt was in the prototype stage, and fire was a distant dream, Pam and I (long before we met) used to watch a show called Dark Shadows. It was on after school, about 3pm. I'd watch that, and then the Three Stooges. Every day. I'd occasionally miss Dark Shadows when I went to my friend Steve Boncimino's house for our daily Stooges fix. I never missed the Stooges. But when possible I'd watch DS.

Dark Shadows was a semi-live gothic soap opera. Semi-live, in that they taped the night before, but the taping was continuous ...no retakes, and everything stayed in the aired episode ...even flubbed lines. It gives it a charm all its own

Well, several years ago we signed up to purchase the VHS tapes of the show. We'd get one tape every 2 weeks or so, and it contained 5 episodes. I'd cap onto DVD, and we'd watch the disc the same day I capped it.

Well, the service that was sending the tapes just stopped. So Pam got the DVDs through Netflix. The last few months we have been watching 5 episodes (20 minutes each without commercials) right about the time we eat supper. It's a ritual, and we both have been totally hooked on the show again. It has quite a cult following, with conventions, fan clubs, etc. We have to see our Dark Shadows every day now, or we begin to develop twitches and spasms, and occasionally lose continence. It's very addictive :eek:

One of the characters on the show, Reverend Trask, is played by an actor named Jerry Lacy.. And the man is the spitting image of Humphrey Bogart :eek: It's amazing. Even being costumed and make-upped as another character on DS, it makes the hairs on my neck stand up when he's in a scene, because he just looks that much like Bogey.

Apparently we're not the only ones who think so. He played Bogart in the 1972 Woody Allen movie "Play It Again, Sam".

He did other Bogart stuff too. Back in the aforementioned Pre-Cambrian era, there used to be a Right Guard deodorant commercial I remember clearly. It was one of my favorites because it involved a Bogart impersonator who looked and sounded exactly like Bogey. The tag line was (in perfect Bogey) "Dry up, shweetheart .....ushe Right Guard, in the shilver can!" :laugh:

It wasn't until today when I was getting the stuff together for this post that I found out that ....sure enough ...it was Jerry Lacy who did that Right Guard commercial

Anyways ...I think it's a remarkable likeness, and, like with most other things, I thought I'd share it with my Convo Pit family and see what you all thought

First some screen grabs from a Dark Shadows DVD we recently watched:















Now a couple of comparison shots with the real Bogey's pic on the left and Jerry Lacy's pic on the right, in a pose as close as I could get:








Here are some grabs from that Right Guard commercial I mentioned:







And ...finally, a short video taken from the trailer for "Play It Again, Sam". I think whoever spotted this actor and used him as a Bogey lookalike was a genius ...and very lucky:

http://convopit.org/forum/files/pias2_161.mpg

Regarding spoiler warnings, in addition to the tags there's also a message icon, all courtesy of our webmaste, MysteriousB. 

Thanks I see the "Spoiler Alert" icon now. I'll be careful not to ruin it for anyone.

Welcome aboard, Professor, though I could've sworn there was another Prof. Stokes on this board!!  About Magda: the reason why she was gone for so long was because Grayson left for a few weeks to do a movie with Michael Douglas called Adam at 6 AM,  and to make another DS connection, her husband in the film was played by "Sheriff Patterson" himself, Dana Elcar!  BTW, it was produced by Steve McQueen's company which begs the question- did he watch DS?

Ahhh, thanks Charles! And thanks BuzzH! I must have made an assumption about Magda

There is a "ProfStokes" here already. I didn't realize it until after I had already registered. Maybe I should change my handle to avoid confusion?

LOL!! Just found out that JF looks at this board once a month or so so I imagine the ego will be sailing when he sees these comments!

How cool is that? It's well-deserved. And .....I was just kidding about flubbing your lines, ole Barney-baby. Juuuuust kidding ....