DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '26 I => Current Talk '03 I => Topic started by: Lindsey on January 03, 2003, 02:17:39 AM
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Now, the question every DS fan must answer at one time or another......
BARNABAS or QUENTIN
Have fun!
-Lindsey
(and I think we all know who Annie and Connie will pick!)
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Barnabas or Quentin for what. . be more specific. .
1. for rescuing me from evil, hands down its barnabas
2. for carrying me off to bed, its Quentin allllll the waaaayyyyyy
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Barnabas or Quentin?
Neither.
End of debate.
raineypark
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Nope, the answer is still ROGER. I'm too old for Barney and his melodrama bores me now that I'm not 13. Quentin is adorable, but I want someone who will be faithful and not running off falling in love with a twit. (Doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking though...)
Roger and I will be very happy together.
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QUENTIN after CHRIS J that is!
quess i just love wolves!
jennifer
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1. for rescuing me from evil, hands down its barnabas
Hmm...I don't know.
SPOILER
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Quentin was very effective at rescuing Barnabas when Petofi was holding Barnabas captive in the coffin. He was cunning, clever and brave.
2. for carrying me off to bed, its Quentin allllll the waaaayyyyyy
No debate at all. LOL
Actually, I choose 1840 Quentin. I want to marry him.
Sensitive, brave, affectionate, well-mannered, loyal, intelligent, and the most beautiful person on the face of the earth. (In a nutshell).
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Claude North, of course... :)
Actually, if forced to choose between Barnabas and Quentin, I'd go with Quentin. Neither one is much of a catch, with their respective curses and tendencies to attract trouble, but at least Quentin seems capable of letting loose and having fun once in a while.
Regards,
John
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QUENTIN!!![kaiokn][/b][/color]All the way!!![thumb]
Cassandra[/font]
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Barnabas forever.
Quentin was wonderful eye candy, but Barnabas had substance!
Love, Robin
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Barnabas forever.
Quentin was wonderful eye candy, but Barnabas had substance!
Ah...but he's SO much more than eye candy.
(Barnabas had substance? I'm not even gonna suggest what that substance might be). ROFL
No...sorry...sorry...just kidding.
Ya know, once a couple of years ago, I got into this silly message thing back and forth with someone who said Quentin had cooties. So I said Barnabas had cooties, and it went back and forth for I don't know how long.
LOL
[silly]
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In one word "QUENTIN"!!!!
Birdie
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Ahem ... not that I'm the type to do this sort of thing, but for a romantic fling I'd definitely pick Quentin the Cutie.
However, for a friend, it's Barnabas hands-down, because I think he'd be a faithful one.
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When I first watched the show I was about 8 years old. I fell in love with Barnabas. He was the father figure I wanted in my life. I know don't laugh. I didn't have one so what would an 8 year old know about it. He was elegant, rich and lived in a big old house I would have loved to explore. However, I would have probably chosen Quentin if I had been a little older but still naive.
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I would do anything, and I mean anything for Barnabas. I would be his maid, do errands for him, run his nice steaming bath, read him a story, comb his hair, tuck him in bed (heh-heh) , feed him breakfast and more.
Quentin's nice.....but Barnabas, well..............
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The two aren't really comparable, IMHO. I love them both, but for different reasons. Barnabas (except for when he's bad) is like a benevolent uncle whom you'd turn to in scary or tough times. He'd be a faithful friend and an interesting conversationalist - I could listen to that voice of his all day and night.
Quentin on the other hand, you cannot rely on for a thing - except to follow his own (usually prurient) interests. He's totally gorgeous, but as we see him now on the show he's a selfish bad boy. Granted, that can be attractive, but only for a limited run.
To sum it up - for a confidante or for someone to have my back in a supernatural throwdown, I choose Barnabas. If it's a night of kinky passion, it's Quentin all the way!
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Quentin's nice.....but Barnabas, well..............
I know just what you mean.......lol.
Barnabas certainly does have substance. And so much more. He just seems to be more reliable (at least in 1897). It seems that if you had a problem, you could go and talk to him about it and feel better, even if he couldn't help you. And he has a tremendous presence that at times seems overpowering, at least to the members of the board here like myself and Terry and Robin. We just want to put our arms around him and hug him. And feed him. And tuck him in. And so on and so on.
Are there any other members of the board like us? If so, I demand that you come out of the shadows and post your love for Barnabas at once!
Ahem, sorry, just got carried away. ;D
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I vote for Barnabas. I could go for living in the old house by candlelight.
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Ya know, once a couple of years ago, I got into this silly message thing back and forth with someone who said Quentin had cooties. So I said Barnabas had cooties, and it went back and forth for I don't know how long.
LOL
[silly]
Connie...you are SO funny!
You're from Joisey, right, capice??
Patti
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Hey this is kind of fun!
Well of course I'd have to choose Barnabas. His eyes and facial expressions and voice...aaah! And, such a nice face I might add! Quentin, very nice to look at but not for the long haul I'm afraid.
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Nope, the answer is still ROGER. I'm too old for Barney and his melodrama bores me now that I'm not 13. Quentin is adorable, but I want someone who will be faithful and not running off falling in love with a twit. (Doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking though...)
Roger and I will be very happy together.
Quentin would probably be great in the sack, but you'd probably also catch something fun like syphilis or gonorrhea from him. Then there's the other Mr. Dependable. No way.
Maybe we can share Roger ;)
Luciaphil
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Well, let's see:
Quentin is good for fun & one night stands. I wouldn't plan on any long term relationships with him.
Barnabas could be, and I say COULD BE, a reliable good friend if you were in need & in his good graces. Otherwise, you'd be left in the lurch.
Roger is too uppity for me. He'd have the resources but his personality would turn me off.
I should pick Willie but I don't need to mother someone.
My choice is Bob the Bartender! He has his own business, he's his own boss, and is quiet & seems reliable. That's my choice.
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Quentin would probably be great in the sack, but you'd probably also catch something fun like syphilis or gonorrhea from him.
I, for one, object to this remark!
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Lucia. . you are very right about ole Quentin. . .he's probably picked up several cases of the clap given his wandering needs .. .
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Luciaphil wrote:
>Quentin would probably be great in the sack, but you'd
>probably also catch something fun like syphilis or
>gonorrhea from him.
I, for one, object to this remark!
>:(
Well, one of my favorite moments in 1897 is when Charity accuses Quentin of wanting to go to the village to see "some slut" rather than stay at Collinwood with her. Somehow I doubt Charity was pulling that possibility out of thin air so far as Quentin proclivities went - and turn of the century prostitutes weren't exactly known to practice "safe sex" - so I'd say Luciaphil's remark is most probably not all that far off the mark. [lghy]
Reality check, 1897 Quentin fans - your boy was hardly a saint. But truthfully isn't that one of the reasons you like him so much? [winkb]
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Reality check, 1897 Quentin fans - your boy was hardly a saint. But truthfully isn't that one of the reasons you like him so much? [winkb]
I was just KIDDING!! LOL
But actually, if we're going to be technical about it and take everything at face value, if Quentin has spent his adult life screwing around with VD-infected prostitutes, he'd either be dead, or very sick by now since penicillin wasn't invented yet in the late 1800's. He certainly doesn't appear to be afflicted with any sort of venereal disease to ME!! LOL
Yes...it's true. One of the reasons we like him so much is because he's "hardly a saint". But another reason is because he's just the most PRECIOUS thing. (At least to me). ROFL
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But actually, if we're going to be technical about it and take everything at face value, if Quentin has spent his adult life screwing around with VD-infected prostitutes, he'd either be dead, or very sick by now since penicillin wasn't invented yet in the late 1800's. He certainly doesn't appear to be afflicted with any sort of venereal disease to ME!! LOL
SPOILER...
That poor, poor portrait. No wonder it was so fugly (thanks to Robin for the word!) by 1969. ;)
Yes...it's true. One of the reasons we like him so much is because he's "hardly a saint". But another reason is because he's just the most PRECIOUS thing. (At least to me). ROFL
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LOL! Quentin inspires some to say "yummy"; I say, "Praise the Lord and pass the penicillin!"
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SPOILER...
That poor, poor portrait. No wonder it was so fugly (thanks to Robin for the word!) by 1969. ;)
No...but I mean in 1897. He's in his late 20's. So if he's spent the last 10 years or so with hookers, he'd have already had VD for quite awhile -- ya know what I mean?
I mean in the show right now.
[wavey] Hi Midnite!
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No...but I mean in 1897. He's in his late 20's. So if he's spent the last 10 years or so with hookers, he'd have already had VD for quite awhile -- ya know what I mean?
I mean in the show right now.
[wavey] Hi Midnite!
Hi, sweetheart. I know what you mean, and I was just having a little fun too. But if you want me to put my nurse hat on (on no, not THAT!), untreated syphilis might progress to the phase in which it causes serious effects within those 10 years (it usually does in 3 or 4), but it could also remain latent for many years.
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Hi, sweetheart. I know what you mean, and I was just having a little fun too. But if you want me to put my nurse hat on (on no, not THAT!), untreated syphilis might progress to the phase in which it causes serious effects within those 10 years (it usually does in 3 or 4), but it could also remain latent for many years.
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That's right. The chancres appear and then appear to go away, but it stays in the system doing all kinds of damage. :P
Luciaphil
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Without Barnabas, I don't think there would be a Dark Shadows beyond the first year. He is the common denominator in every story---------------he is sinister, sexy, and sensational. Quentin is a "pretty boy" who has mucho girls. He is definitely sexy and certainly turns me on! Bottom line: For me, Barnabas all the way. I think Quentin throws some humor into his role and that's what I enjoy most in his character. But who would I take home with me? BARNABAS.
Misty
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Well, one of my favorite moments in 1897 is when Charity accuses Quentin of wanting to go to the village to see "some slut" rather than stay at Collinwood with her.
You're kidding........did she really say that? I thought that wasn't allowed on television then.
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"Praise the Lord and pass the penicillan?" Ohmy Gawd....ROTFLOL! That is too much!
Now no more of the social disease discussion. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it! *shudder*
Quentin...hands down! Felt that way since I was an original viewer....and I'm sticking to it!
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Always The Quentin Fan, Minja ;)
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Now, the question every DS fan must answer at one time or another......
BARNABAS or QUENTIN
Have fun!
-Lindsey
(and I think we all know who Annie and Connie will pick!)
This is a difficult question... let me see.
During the summer months.. I would love to live with Barnabas, the Old House is nice and drafty, cool in the evenings and I love candles at night.
For the Winter Months Collinwood and Quentin would be wonderful! a fireplace in every room, it would be so perfect to sit along side Quentin listening to his phonograph.
Who would not wish to spend half the year with Barnabas and the other half with Quentin?
that would be glorious!
Sarah :)
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"Praise the Lord and pass the penicillan?" Ohmy Gawd....ROTFLOL! That is too much!
Now no more of the social disease discussion. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it! *shudder*
Hehehe. I just finished indexing my last volume of a historical medical journal (and the year of said volume? 1897--coincidence? I think not ;) ) I've done at least a half dozen of these volumes and by now have read more articles about v.d., consequences thereof when passed on to unsuspecting wives and their children, and various treatments then I ever cared to. Didn't care too much for all those articles featuring neurosyphilis (if it's not caught in time, it can affect your brain and you go mad), "foul discharges," and pus, but it is a pretty interesting topic really and far more prevalent in the 19th century than I ever knew.
What is really and truly frightening is how diseases and illnesses were treated. My personal favorite: the doctor who thought that too many physicians were taking out appendixes for appendicitis, when really the best solution was to give those patients enemas; surgery being completely unnecessary! Mercury was often prescribed for whatever ailed you and my God, and when cocaine first hit the market--every doctor and his brother was out there pushing it for everything. It was the new miracle drug.
The articles about "neurasthenia" are eye-opening. That's one of those terms that's a catchall: schizophrenia to "hysterical" women. Several inventive individuals created "devices" that would cure these frustrated and hysterical spinsters--forerunners of modern vibrators ;) When a shrink suggested that just maybe epileptics shouldn't be kept in the same facilities as your garden-variety lunatic because it seemed like they really weren't mentally ill afterall, it was considered a daring and radical concept.
When the city of Buffalo started purifying its water supply, the death rate dropped by 50%. For a long time. Many respected physicians argued about the dangers of using diptheria antitoxin even when epidemics were raging.
These are the kind of things that makes you glad not be back in the days of yore :)
Luciaphil
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Hehehe. . My personal favorite: the doctor who thought that too many physicians were taking out appendixes for appendicitis, when really the best solution was to give those patients enemas;
Must be an Incestor of Michael Kenyon of Illinois!
[vryevl]
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RE: Quentin and possible STD's . . .
Quentin doesn't strike me as the type who would go to bed with the common prostitutes down on the docks. He seems to prefer the challenge of bedding the "proper" ladies, such as the virginal young maidens who serve in the household, and the proper ladies who are already married but unhappy in their relationships. Quentin seems all about the conquest; not much conquering to do with hookers. (The docks are Barnabas' territory, anyway!)
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Thank you, Dr. Eric Lang!!
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RE: Quentin and possible STD's . . .
Quentin doesn't strike me as the type who would go to bed with the common prostitutes down on the docks. He seems to prefer the challenge of bedding the "proper" ladies, such as the virginal young maidens who serve in the household, and the proper ladies who are already married but unhappy in their relationships. Quentin seems all about the conquest; not much conquering to do with hookers.
Hmmm, I think that you are right. Maybe we should be more worried about Carl, ya' think?
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Hmmm, I think that you are right. Maybe we should be more worried about Carl, ya' think?
Oh, I think you're absolutely right, kuanyin.....I think we should be VERY worried about Carl, especially since.......
HE'S BEEN MISSING FOR MONTHS AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry......didn't mean to shriek like that. [blshy]
rainey
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Oh, I think you're absolutely right, kuanyin.....I think we should be VERY worried about Carl, especially since.......
HE'S BEEN MISSING FOR MONTHS AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'VE noticed! Actually, look at what he ends up bringing home -- Pansy! (Questionable background at best). LOL
Ya know, Barnabas WOULD have been the one to get all the diseases -- hepatitis, etc. Just think if they had had AIDS back then. He would have been a goner -- don't ya think??
-CLC ;D
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I don't know, Connie.....if nothing else can kill him, (except sunlight, and silver bullets) why would AIDS?
The only time I've ever seen AIDS and vampires in the same story was an episode of "Forever Knight" where the Vampires began to die from drinking blood treated with a potential AIDS treatment, but were cured again if they drank AIDS tainted blood. It was an interesting storyline.....but kind of disturbing too. How many times has medicine offered up a cure that proved to be a killer?
raineypark
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wow pretty funny thread here but i going to suggest Lucia to the next surgeon who wants to do an appy
(appendectomy) at 3 am,that we give an enema instead just to see his face!
also vd untreated is very painful and gruesome and q would have rathered the wolf curse instead!Very icky!
bur no one has answerd my question about vampires
still engaging in s*x , twice this week have seen it implied on PC and a Susan Dey movie (yes Laurie p as a vamp) i Pretty weird considering they are dead! another icky thought!
jennifer