Last night it struck me how often ever so slight reminders of the DS seem to enter my everyday life. Yes, I am insane.
Well, if you are (which I don't believe), you're not alone, cuz I think it's inevitable that if you get 2 or more DS fans together, they're going to be references to DS.
Bette and I met for lunch this past weekend at a public garden that sits between us, and it was such a gorgeous day (I'm not bragging [much
]) with the camelia forest in bloom that we decided to take the tram tour through the huge grounds, and in the more naturalized area along the route she commented on how it could be the woods around Collinwood (as opposed to the virtual woods with the wobbly trees and astroturf), and when we passed a gazebo in the rose garden I simply had to refer to it as the ga-zay-bo. The fact that the people around us didn't understand obviously didn't matter, but we did have to limit our comments to pauses in the tour guide's speech.
I also love spotting the actors in other films or TV shows and blurting out "Hey, did you know that he/she was on Dark Shadows!" Especially love spotting the lesser-known actors that the casual or non-fan (opposed to we "professionals") might recognize from other things but wouldn't know about the DS affiliation.
Oh me too. The other day Gail Strickland appeared in something my family was watching, so of course I had to comment that she was torn apart by a werewolf in DS. The kids are always impressed; hubby is immune to it.
BTW: My sister - who I drug to NYC with me for the '01 fest has now become a John Karlen fan because he was so funny and nice to us when we got his autograph. She now loves spotting him any and every time he pops up on TV. But you know, he's so comparatively well known that I can't help inwardly smirking just a little and thinking - HA! Amateur!
LOL
Ringo, if you see this, you mentioned the other day that you hadn't mastered quoting more than one post in your message. For this one, I clicked Quote in Birdie's message, highlighted and copied what I needed, backed up, clicked Quote in CastleBee's message, pasted what was copied into that reply window, and replied to the passages I wanted to quote. Sorry, but there's no easier way to do it.