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Offline michael c

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the "language" of d.s.
« on: September 24, 2005, 09:36:40 PM »
all the fuss the silver filigreed fountain pen caused a few weeks ago made me think.

d.s. fans understand a certain "language".i wasn't thinking so much about specific names(collins)or types of creatures(vampires)but more in terms of commonplace things and ideas that resonate with fans but wouldn't have any special signifigance to anyone else.

i was thinking about fountain pens and foundling homes and afghans.about telephones and teleprompters and bleeder valves.about sedatives and seances and sleeveless dresses.about music boxes and medallions and mausoleums.about kinescope and canneries and caretaker's cottages.

i know there's lots more.what can you guys think of? [ideab]
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2005, 10:10:46 PM »
I-Ching wands and earrings
Stone floors and head stones.
Orphans and ancestors.
Brandy and betrayals.
Gramaphones and Grandmamas.
Coffins and caskets and Cousins from England.

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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2005, 10:50:41 PM »
Heh heh, Dr. Seuse would love this thread.
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2005, 12:29:37 AM »
The afghan

Flies and microphone shadows.

"I don't understand."

Many of the bloopers have slipped into the fandom lexicon also: incestors, 100 miles, "that night must go nothing wrong", etc.

On two other boards where I post we have a "throw something off Widows' Hill" feature where we symbolically cast off things (or people) that annoy us.  If I told any non-DS fan, "This is going over Widows' Hill" I don't think they would get it.

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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2005, 01:12:12 AM »
Business trips to Bangor
Rockport
a certain severed hand...and head
atrocious hair pieces
Ohrbach's fashions
sherry (to go along with the brandy)
the East Wing
the West Wing
ridiculous medical equipment (think Adam storyline)--I laugh every time that electrical pulse/mini-lightning thing goes off
"immortal" cast--everyone returns as someone else!
"the Game"--LOL, I still joke with my mom about this one--no one else has a clue what I'm talking about!
the Terrace--it always evokes images of Vicki standing next to that trickling fountain
the Gazebo/Garden
mausoleums in general--I always expect to find secret rooms inside
staircases that seem to go nowhere...
the "life force"
that primitive tape/cassette player...
sanitariums
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2005, 03:07:02 AM »
Leviathans
From Waitress to Mental Patient to Governess--- only in Collinsport
Dock Doxies
False eyelashes and mascara--- Did they really wear this stuff in 1795, 1840, and 1897?
Sweet Young Things
The Real Burke Devlin
The Real Sheriff Sheriff Patterson
The Real Willie Loomis
the Real Sam Evans
The Real Vicki Winters
The Green Sweater
Jeff/Peter's hair
The Dream Curse
Skull On A Stick
Bat On A String
Mr. Fly (and Co.)
A witch named Angelique
Styrofoam (or cardboard?) Headstones
The Strange and Disturbing World of Parallel Time
Jooh-ssssetttte....
Julia! Quickly!
Barnabas, Barnabas!
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2005, 03:31:06 AM »
"I don't know!  I just don't know!"  Vicki gets castigated for uttering the infamous "I don't understand!" line, but Julia really takes the cake with her "I don't know!"  I counted in one episode just how many times she said it:  7 times in under 5 minutes!
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2005, 04:54:22 AM »

As a child, after hearing this phrase on DS, I started using it on my sister whenever she tattled on me - "You BETRAYED me!!!" ;D 
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2005, 05:54:05 AM »

drawing rooms
loud (grandfather) clocks
Victorian furniture
houses by the sea
"Diabolos"
faux facial hair
vampire euphemisms--"what I was"; "one of the undead"; "this curse of night"; etc.
amnesia/insanity, esp. with a SYT or ingenue
voodoo dolls
Tarot cards!
garish 60's colours
servants--I like imagining that I have them
swirling lights in dreams
"flashlight" moon--you know that stock photo they always use to represent a full moon but really looks like it was created with a flashlight?
voiceovers
alternating props--Leviathan Box one day, normal box the other day
cigarettes in hospitals...
all-pervading suit--does *any* guy at all dress casually on the show aside from the random turtleneck?
that green dress
that green suit
a certain onyx ring...
a certain silver wolf's head cane...
pink feather boa
extremely long and luxuriant sideburns...
blue and green candles in 1795
bright orange bedspread in 1897
witchcraft trials
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2005, 12:28:05 PM »
"What do you mean?" is another line that frequently pops up.

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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2005, 07:38:44 PM »
One of my personal favorites is Julia's overuse of the name Barnabas during conversations with that character.  "Barnabas, surely you don't think, Barnabas, that there is a ghost, Barnabas, at Collinwood, Barnabas?"

I swear that once she used his name like, seven times in one sentence!

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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2005, 11:29:16 PM »
Maybe we should just have a list of Julia-isms.  I swear, she's probably the character with the most personality traits:  her flickering, heavily-lashed eyes, the ever-present cigarette and smoker's cough, her catchy little phrases, her patent scream, her vast array of sedatives, her trusty black medical bag, her emphatic way of speaking, etc.
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2005, 11:43:52 PM »
Speaking of "talking" - interesting how thin the walls are sometimes (people have no problem hearing someone speaking in another room, or from outside) and how at other times the house is soundproof.

Theme music: Josette's music box, Quentin's Theme, PT Angelique: Ode to Angelique
Secret rooms and or passage ways
Poison rings
Signature perfumes or scents: Jasmine - Josette, Lilacs - Daphne
People never going "what?" when someone says something weird: "That night must go nothing wrong"


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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2005, 11:51:21 PM »
Ever since I heard Bill Malloy utter the phrase "casually in passing," it has become a permanent part of my and my family's vocabulary ...and whatnot. ;) 
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Re: the "language" of d.s.
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2005, 01:18:42 AM »
good ones guys...i didn't think of alot of these.


but i almost forgot a personal favorite.the only apartment anyone in collinsport can ever live in...#24. ::)
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