DARK SHADOWS FORUMS

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Title: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Connie on February 06, 2006, 03:49:05 PM
...When they turn on This Old House thinking they're gonna see Barnabas.
Ha ha 

Ya know, thinking of David Selby's birthday yesterday......Jeez - 65.  That's kind of old.  I think they should come up with a new series:
This Old Quentin.

I'd sure as hell watch it.
[laughing7]

-Senile on silly pills   :-X

PS More show ideas:
  Leave It To Quentin
  Quentin Knows Best
  I Love Quentin
  My Little Quentin 
  Make Room For Quentin
  Little Old House On The Prairie  [hdscrt]
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: ghostowl on February 06, 2006, 07:34:40 PM
Are you sure you wern't looking at the painting?  8)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Midnite on February 06, 2006, 07:59:33 PM
Welcome, ghostowl!   [ghost]
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: petofi on February 07, 2006, 02:52:18 AM
A DS fan is too old when they refer to the mud room in their house as "the foyer."

They're "getting on" when they mistake the thanksgiving turkey log for the Head of Judah Zachary.

They're somewhat diminished if they refer to the back yard gravel pile as "Eagle Hill."

They're beyond "eccentric" if they spend all their time drawing pentagrams on the floor to protect them from the family dog.

They're in need of home care if they start "summoning" their spouse/partner by thinking, "I neeeed yooouuu!"

They're downright senile if they refer to their mobile home as "The Great Estate."

They're beyond the pale when they consult the local junior college liberal studies professor about being bothered by some "Dream Curse."

They're ready to be carted away if they start seeing a "parallel universe" on the other side of the shower curtain.

They're ready for the boneyard if they start referring to their bedroom as "the coffin room."

They're too far gone if they find lime green frocks strangely irresistible.

Petofi ;D
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Sandor on February 07, 2006, 04:15:57 AM
We know we're getting old when Bathia Mapes and Ezra Braithwaite seem hotter than Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt in our weary eyes...
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Connie on February 08, 2006, 11:22:12 AM
You know you're too old when you find yourself talking to the TV out loud -- making remarks to characters during a lull in dialogue or whatever.  Either you're too old, or you're nuts.
I actually found myself making comments to Quentin about half an hour ago. 

 ::)

(this must end before it becomes a habit)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Elmont on February 08, 2006, 02:32:56 PM
  If your still alive, your not too old.  Elmont...
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Raineypark on February 08, 2006, 03:54:51 PM
You know you're too old when you find yourself talking to the TV out loud -- making remarks to characters during a lull in dialogue or whatever.  Either you're too old, or you're nuts.
I actually found myself making comments to Quentin about half an hour ago.

Uh-oh......I grew up in a household where yelling back at the television was the norm.  My Dad always treated TV-watching as a participatory event.  Especially while watching the News.  I still do it.

I think you're never too old for DS....until you're nothing but a dark shadow yourself....... >:D
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Barnabas'sBride on February 08, 2006, 05:00:05 PM
If I'm really into a show, I often talk to - and sometimes scream at - the TV. I remember doing that often through Buffy the Vampire's Slayer's run. I've done it a few times with DS. :)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 08, 2006, 07:16:08 PM
They're beyond "eccentric" if they spend all their time drawing pentagrams on the floor to protect them from the family dog.

 [lghy]   [thumbright]

I probably shuouldn't admit this, but back when I was 12 during the Quentin Haunting/Introduction of Chris storyline, a friend owned a huge gray dog (I'm not sure what the breed was, but I swear it weighed at least 200 pounds) and he also had a huge wooded back yard. Can you guess where this is headed? Yup, that's right.  [wink2]  We used to pretend the dog was the werewolf and have it chase us around the yard. More often than not it caught us - and then we'd pretend we were being ripped to shreds. The poor dog (not to mention my friend's parents  :D) must have thought we were insane. Though on the plus side, I swear I haven't done that for close to 40 years.  ;D  And I also swear I've never drawn or even been in a room where a pentragram has been drawn on the floor.
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Gothick on February 08, 2006, 07:55:30 PM
Quote
And I also swear I've never drawn or even been in a room where a pentragram has been drawn on the floor.

My dear! I do feel your pain.

G.
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Raineypark on February 08, 2006, 08:06:45 PM
Huge and gray sounds like an Australian Sheep Dog......but if it looked like a wolf, it was probably an Alaskan Malamute.  Siberians have the wicked pale eyes, but they tend to be smaller.

As for the pentagram on the floor.....well, what's so odd about THAT? I do it all the time......[lghy]
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Gerard on February 08, 2006, 08:33:04 PM
When your recollection of storylines and episodes derived through FDSMS (False Dark Shadows Memory Syndrome) begin to appear better than the original plots and episodes.

Gerard
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: BuzzH on February 08, 2006, 08:51:31 PM
I probably shuouldn't admit this, but back when I was 12 during the Quentin Haunting/Introduction of Chris storyline, a friend owned a huge gray dog (I'm not sure what the breed was, but I swear it weighed at least 200 pounds)

Could have been an Irish Wolfhound!  They are 6 feet tall when standing on their hind legs!   8)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Maria_Merriweather on February 08, 2006, 10:07:01 PM
You know you're old when you see things depicted on DS that are mostly obsolete (such as phone booths and coffee percolaters) but you can clearly remember them. 8)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: BuzzH on February 08, 2006, 10:18:30 PM
You know you're old when you see things depicted on DS that are mostly obsolete (such as phone booths and coffee percolaters) but you can clearly remember them. 8)

How 'bout DIAL phones and ppl actually LOOKING for a pay phone rather than wipping out a cell?   ::)
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Gerard on February 09, 2006, 09:02:19 PM
Seeing:

-a stereo console record player and thinking it was so modern;
-Roger's Mustang and thinking it was so modern;
-everyone smoking, and smoking anywhere and everywhere and thinking it was so modern;
-sixties fashion and thinking it was so modern;
-a woman doctor and thinking it was so modern;
-chicks and cats in tight clothing twisting and turning to hot strings on the dance floor and thinking it was so modern.

Gerard
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Patti Feinberg on February 09, 2006, 10:01:54 PM
Uh-oh......I grew up in a household where yelling back at the television was the norm.  My Dad always treated TV-watching as a participatory event.  Especially while watching the News.  I still do it. 

Thank you Rainey...would you please tell my husband that it's okay to yell at the TV (ESPECIALLY during the news). When I do this, he gets up & points to the TV and says, "Hon, they can't hear you"....hello...duh husband.

Whoosh...I feel better.

Patti
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Raineypark on February 09, 2006, 10:55:30 PM
(Rainey laughs out loud).....When my daughter was little, she used to say "Mommy, that man on the TV can't hear you yelling at him!!"  And I would tell her "I know sweetie....but Mommy feels SO much better after I yell at him!!"  Now she comes home from her Poli-Sci class and says "Mom, I was channeling you in class today!"  I think it's genetic.  Tell your husband it's in your genes....[lghy]
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: Bob_the_Bartender on February 10, 2006, 04:25:48 AM
You know you're getting old, when your idea of a "hip" and "swinging" Dark Shadows Rat Pack, chilling out at the Blue Whale (or possibly even at the Studio 54-like Kit-Kat-Room in nearby Rockport) consists of the Eagle Hill Cemetery caretaker, Grand Ma-Ma Edith Collins, Charle Delaware Tate (circa 1969), Ezra Braithwaite, and the unfailingly bodacious Bathia Mapes!  [beer] [8371] [grim]
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: arashi on February 11, 2006, 05:13:36 AM
You know you're too old when you find yourself talking to the TV out loud -- making remarks to characters during a lull in dialogue or whatever.  Either you're too old, or you're nuts.
I actually found myself making comments to Quentin about half an hour ago.

(this must end before it becomes a habit)

I'm doomed, I do this already!
Title: Re: How does a DS fan know when they're too old....
Post by: CastleBee on February 11, 2006, 01:04:08 PM
You know you're old when you see things depicted on DS that are mostly obsolete (such as phone booths and coffee percolaters) but you can clearly remember them. 8)
OR, you start to see things that couldn't possibly be there - like the laptop I thought I saw sitting on one of the beds at Collinwood. I can't remember what it really was, but my mind kept telling me another story.