Both ProfStokes and I noticed that many cousins have been omitted from the birthday list.[/color][/size]

Actually, the birthday list is in the possession of the forum moderators.  Through some periods, helpful volunteers such as WidowsHill and Kimbrough have handled the acknowledgements, which has been great, but we've always had ultimate responsibility for it.

Anyway, some forum members prefer to not list their birthdays in their profiles, but that's a separate issue from whether or not someone wants their birthday announced when it comes up.  When a birthday isn't posted on the forums there may be a reason for it, so if you ever wonder why an announcement was skipped please feel free to privately ask one of the mods and we'll tell you yay or nay on announcing it, and of course we do make mistakes (oops).  And when a birthday is dropped from someone's profile it may be because they removed it and as I alluded to earlier in this topic the best course of action is to privately ask the member.

Welcome back, Gerard.    You were missed!

Many thanks as always, Tim!

ShadowGram wrote:

--- The 2005 Barnabas calendar shows a different picture of JONATHAN FRID as
"Barnabas" for every month.

 :-

Current Talk did NOT show a "new" indicator.  When I went to the board, there was a "new" tag by one topic and the last post there was one I had read before.

You may also have noticed that the post was half the size it was when you first opened it mostly due to

removing several lines of blank space

So, while that board still put the "new" on it, the main topic heading knew not to!!!

Yes, the board listing does not light up for edits.

But then there's Prof. Stokes' stated belief in episode #660 that there was a real Jeff Clark, his body was possessed by Peter Bradford's spirit (presumably on that night that Clark was found wandering around with no memory of who he was), and when the spirit returned to its own time, the borrowed body was returned where it belonged. Stokes was sure that was true, so who knows?

I don't think we saw anybody telling Stokes about the empty coffin, but if it really was Peter's spirit possessing Jeff's body, why wasn't Peter's body in his grave? 

Roger did suggest graverobbers.  Um, yeah, they must've been after the hair. 

occasionally I'll still have an item indicating "new" and it turns out to be something I read the previous day - it's usually just the one item and everything else really IS new and it's just every once in a while.

We've noticed that modified posts will regain a "new" tag for visitors who have already read it.  If you've read a post and the "new" tag reappears it was probably edited, though you'd be hard pressed in most cases to notice the change because it's usually something as benign as a moderator fixing the code in a post or removing several lines of black space, and as you said it only happens once in a while.