The 1897 storyline is over, and we're a long distance now from Laura's late 19th century appearance, so this is kinda (well, it actually is) an old news item, but I just read something on an AOL DS board old post.  It had to do with the Laura thing, and brought up something that never occured to me (and it might've been discussed here back at the appropriate time, but I probably forgot).  Now, forget that they chucked the whole Phoenix-Laura-appears-every-100-years, and just had her pop in whenever they so desired.  Forget that.  This has to do with the relationship between 1897 Laura, her son Jamison, and his descendents.  Jamison happened to become Roger's father (and Roger, of course, David's father).  Does this mean that Laura later married and had sex with her own grandson, and produced an offspring?  And that offspring was not only her son, but her great-grandson as well?  As one of the posters on the AOL board said, maybe that's what Roger meant by wanting to investigate his "incestors".

Gerard

LOL!  Ours was Sr. Mary Esther.  She, too, use to babysit God.  Str (that's the way it's pronounced - str) was about five feet tall and five feet wide, and when she walked, you couldn't see her feet - she just glided along the floor.  And could she pack a mean ruler!  But we learned from her (we're talking compound fractions; memorizing entire sections of the US Constitution; knowing the capitals of all 50 states, as well as the entire list of presidents up to LBJ [who was the prez back then], and all that in elementary school).  I discovered just a coupla months ago, that Str Mary Esther IS SITLL ALIVE.  She is over 100, well over, and crochets in happy retirement.

Gerard

Quote from: dom on April 09, 2003, 12:08:33 AM

I thought of Stephen King.

I thought of my current boss.

Hi Gerard, I don't think Kathy Cody could have been possessed... in order to underline the dramatic horrifying gruesomeness of all the possessions, they'd have needed Hallie running around Collinwood screaming,

"WHUUUUUUUUUUUUU ARE YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!?"

Bet the glass in the control room was shattering that day...

Gothy

Quote from: Vlad on April 09, 2003, 11:36:50 PM

Also, when you think of it ... Quentin's room is pretty nice accomodations ... can it really be all that bad?     I mean, Trask could have been manacled by the arms (as Barnabas was by Trask's ancestor) in a cold damp dungeon ...

A person could go mad in there trying to figure out where the heck Quentin hid the bed.

I always lose it when poor John Harkins is all trussed up wriggling on the floor sputtering "Argh!" and the ropes are practically falling off him, they're tied so loose, and he's struggling to roll the other way so it won't show on camera.

I keep thinking he must have been pondering just how much harassment he was going through that day for a paycheck!

Interesting, of course, that he appears in two further roles on DS, so he must not have minded too much.

Can anyone name his previous appearance on the series?

Tiresomely trivial,

Gothick