DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '03 I => Topic started by: A.I.Collins on January 24, 2003, 05:05:39 AM
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Hey guys,
Adra here.Haven't posted in a while.I have been experiencing technical difficulties with my ISP.My question is...what are some of the things you guys think I,or even you,can do to make your life be more DS-like?
Expressing the question more clearly,i mean...are there any items you can think of having in your home(candle operas,strange lamps,fireplaces ablaze all the time,etc.)
or simply the way to make conversation with your relatives(being dramatic in gestures,turning your back while talking to someone,looking up as if into a camera,etc.)...I sometimes find myself making those strange faces that Laura used to make when she had come up with an evil plan or was praying to Ra.I'm looking for more things to do and things to add to my home to make it more DS-like.I want your comments and ideas.Throw em' at me! :)
Thanks,
Adra
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Hi Adra,
Ok, here is one thing you can do to add a little
DS spice to your life. Try being a close talker
like Barnabas. Really get right up in someone's
face and gaze into their eyes. Especially if they are
giving you a hard time about watching DS.
That should shut them up. LOL
Another idea is say someone asks you a question-
-stop, smile at them real big and then gasp,
"Oh Barnabas----oops! I mean (fill in the name)."
This type of behavior should keep your friends
and family on their toes or it will get you a first
class ticket to the closest Wyndcliff type care
facility for a good looooong rest.
Julianka
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Hi Adra,
You can purchase a chiming clock that plays Westminster. That is the "melody" that the grandfather clock in the foyer at Collinwood plays; Then hide your red diary in it. <giggle>
dom
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You can purchase a chiming clock that plays Westminster. That is the "melody" that the grandfather clock in the foyer at Collinwood plays;
My mother actually has one of these on the mantel in the den, and on more than one occasion it went off at the precise moment the Collinwood clock went off when I was watching DS videos while I was home on the weekends from college.
The first time, I thought it was creepy as hell, but, considering how many shots they have of that darn clock during the run of the series, I doubt that the possibility of the two going off at the same time is very rare at all.
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My husband loves watches and clocks.
He has always wanted a grandfather clock.
But they take up so much space.
Julianka
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Three words: Brandy, brandy, brandy!
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Hmmm...my life is actually becoming a bit too DS-like for my taste. Little occurrences have led me to suspect that my apartment is haunted. For example, I always leave my shower curtain open after showering because I like the air to circulate in the tub area to dry it out. On several occasions, I have gone out for the day and returned home to find that shower curtain is closed.
Also, one morning I woke up and for a split-second, I saw the image of a face hovering in my bedroom.
Scariest of all, I had been sleeping on my sofa and when I woke up, I heard what sounded like the jangling of the chain lock on my door and footsteps in my living room.
Of course, I could be imagining all these events. Perhaps I should switch from DS to FATHER KNOWS BEST...
Regards,
John
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Hmmm...my life is actually becoming a bit too DS-like for my taste. Little occurrences have led me to suspect that my apartment is haunted. For example, I always leave my shower curtain open after showering because I like the air to circulate in the tub area to dry it out. On several occasions, I have gone out for the day and returned home to find that shower curtain is closed.
Also, one morning I woke up and for a split-second, I saw the image of a face hovering in my bedroom.
Scariest of all, I had been sleeping on my sofa and when I woke up, I heard what sounded like the jangling of the chain lock on my door and footsteps in my living room.
Of course, I could be imagining all these events. Perhaps I should switch from DS to FATHER KNOWS BEST...
Regards,
John
I hear you. I have a little of that myself lately.
I'll be home alone, upstairs on my computer
and hear what sounds like a door closing.
When I go downstairs to check...nothing.
No one in the house. And every once in a while
the doorbell will ring and no one is there.
My daughter has been there in the room
with me when this happened once. And before
you say neighborhood kids are playing tricks,
this has happened during the day, when the kids
are all in school.
Julianka
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start staying up all night and when friends ask where you are during the day say "I had business in Bangor"
have a seance for every little noise you hear in the house!
say "i don't understand ALL THE TIME and look blank.
talk about your travels to another century!
and my #1 favorite hang garlic on your door keeps all my weird relatives away!
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[hello] I wear my large silver cross, and occasionally flash it in someone's face to see if they will run away and howl.
Seriously, I have been having horrible nightmares and wake up screaming. This has happened twice and scared my husband to death. I never did that until this past week. He has confiscated my Tales From the Crypt tapes, because he thinks that is it--I had not even seen them! Just taped a marathon recently. I didn't tell him I had not watched any of the tapes, because I was afraid he might go after my DS tapes next!!!!!!!!!!!Horrors!
Afan
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Hmmm...my life is actually becoming a bit too DS-like for my taste. Little occurrences have led me to suspect that my apartment is haunted. For example, I always leave my shower curtain open after showering because I like the air to circulate in the tub area to dry it out. On several occasions, I have gone out for the day and returned home to find that shower curtain is closed.
Apartment? I don't mean to sound creepy, but I'd check for a hidden camera if I were you, John. Especially if the super wears a lot of leather. ;)
Dom
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The next time someone is trying to explain something to you just look them square in the eye and say "What do you mean??"
Cassandra[/font]
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Apartment? I don't mean to sound creepy, but I'd check for a hidden camera if I were you, John. Especially if the super wears a lot of leather. ;)
Actually, YOU might want to consider installing a hidden camera.....to see just who the hell is entering your apartment when you're not there!
rainey
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You can buy all the blue candles, ornately carved period furniture and frilly canopy beds you want BUT...until you score one of those multi-colored granny afghans you just won't have an authentic Collinwood of your own to love!
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When I was a kid, I loved playing Barnabas. I had a cane, would put a blanket over my shoulders to serve as his Sherlock Holmes cape, and a friend of mine had one of those old toy things where you could make plastic things like fangs.
When the show first aired, during the David-tries-to-kill-his-father story, I pretended I was David. I would use an old hotel room key chain (remember those? - the big plastic things that had the address on them which stated you could just drop the key into the nearest mailbox if you forgot to leave it at the hotel and it would get mailed) as the brake valve and would hide it.
Of course, I don't do any of that stuff today, otherwise I'd get stranger looks than what I get now.
But when we were kids, we also played who-murdered-Barbie? Our friends next door (the sister, at least), had the whole 60's Barbie stuff, including one of the first Barbie houses and Barbie car. We had our GI-Joes and would bring them over. Going up into the attic which was a veritable paradise for a kiddie playland, we'd put Barbie in her car, and the "brakes" would fail, sending her careening off the "cliff" (the attic stairs). If we really wanted to make it realistic, we'd pull her head off. And then the process of solving "who murdered Barbie" would begin. Usually it was either Ken or one of our GI-Joe's, jealous over Barbie's attention to either one or the other.
Gerard
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I wore a full length, black wool, hooded cape instead of a winter coat all through high school. But that was more in homage to "Dracula's Daughter" than "Dark Shadows".
I was a strange child.
[lghy] rainey
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I wore a full length, black wool, hooded cape instead of a winter coat all through high school. But that was more in homage to "Dracula's Daughter" than "Dark Shadows".
Cool! :D
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a friend of mine had one of those old toy things where you could make plastic things like fangs.
Gerard
Vac-u-form or Incredible Edible???
cheers,
Ringo, who still gets the occasional strange look! [jester]
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Vac-u-form or Incredible Edible???
I had a thing like that called the Monster Maker. You had molds that you would pour this goo in and it would heat up and then cool to make various creepy things like skulls, bugs etc.
But when we were kids, we also played who-murdered-Barbie
Wow, that reminded me of a game I used to play...mame the little green Army guys! I used to give them to the dog and see what creative ways he could kill them. LOL! Hey, is it me, or are we all starting to sound like a bunch of Wednesday and Pugsley Adams clones!
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It was either Vac-U-Form or Monster Maker, and I'm leaning towards Monster Maker, but that was back in '69, so the memory's fuzzy. But I also do remember Incredible Edible! They don't make stuff like that anymore. Do they still have Easy-Bake Ovens? You could make like one small cupcake in them, a lightbulb providing the heat. Our neighbor (the one who's Barbie always got murdered) had one.
Gerard
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How to make your home like Collinwood (and/or The Old House):
Never lock your front door.
Take off all the screens from your windows.
Dedicate one room in the house as the "closed off room," making sure candles are always lit in there.
Install a secret passageway.
Hang plenty of portraits of people you don't know.
Install a wobbly bannister that shakes whenever someone touches it.
Always have a roaring fire, even in the middle of summer.
Periodically wander around the grounds in the middle of the night. Make sure to set up fake trees and shrubs you can knock over.
Let out an ear-splitting scream every so often.
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Nice responses Dr. Lang!....and everyone else too!...Thanks for replying.
Adra
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I thought we were getting a new forum but when I logged in after cleaning out my browser ((;-)), it still says new forum is on its way. What gives?
Anyway, I live in a coach home in a secluded (my Uncle calls it isolated) area with a sort of a nature center out back with a creek, big dark cottonwood trees, tall waving grasses and assorted wild life. Sometimes in the evening just before dark, its kind of foggy looking and I can't see the single family homes off in the distance, I imagine a supernatural creature is back there waiting for me to step out on to the patio. Brrr. I love that type of atmosphere! Always makes me think of Dark Shadows.
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I thought we were getting a new forum but when I logged in after cleaning out my browser ((;-)), it still says new forum is on its way. What gives?
Hi Miss_Winthrop!
You were asked to dump your browser cache to get rid of the message that said that the forum was being transferred, and it was-- to a new, temporary server. Our contract with the old server expired before we were ready to introduce our new plans for the forum, thus the move, but you hopefully won't notice any difference. So our plans are still underway to make a change, but in the meantime the entire setup had to be moved, including all the files, and MB had to take us offline temporarily to make some necessary changes so that it would be compatible with the new server. I hope that answers your question.
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Yes they still make easy bake ovens and i've had to endure those "wonderful" cakes my daughter has made. hey what goes around comes around as my father loves to point out to me. and my brother's GI Joe used to torture our Barbies too Gerard What is with you boys anyway? My cousin who is an only child still has all her Barbies intact and perfect she always asks why ours aren't and i have to always blame old GI JOE!
jennifer
WHO CARES WHO WINS THE SUPERBOWL(sorry that was for my husband who has driven me crazy all day and finally left for a superbowl party!)
i myself will not party till The Red Sox win!
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Jennifer--the key is to go to the party and never actually watch the game. We went to a Super Bowl party, put our names in the pool. I sat with the women solving the real problems of the world while the guys and kids fwere watching the game.
We were discussing going to flee markets looking for interesting "stuff". Maybe I could find something worth making my home more "Collinwoodish".
Birdie
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WHO CARES WHO WINS THE SUPERBOWL
i myself will not party till The Red Sox win!
I second that first line!!! Geeezuz, I am a guy, but I don't understand what it is about a bunch of guys dressed alike doing the same thing over and over for 'points' - the wifey [who CANNOT be replaced, by the way] and I went out to our fave mexican tonight and I sat with my back to the tube in the corner! And I wore red sox!
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I second that first line!!! Geeezuz, I am a guy, but I don't understand what it is about a bunch of guys dressed alike doing the same thing over and over for 'points' - the wifey [who CANNOT be replaced, by the way] and I went out to our fave mexican tonight and I sat with my back to the tube in the corner! And I wore red sox!
and i bet you looked cute in them too Ringo!
jennifer