I always took it that Julia hoped that the overdose would kill Barnabas, not revert him back.

Gerard

Hi, Annie!  I've been working, working, working like gangbusters, too!  Two jobs and no time for anything else.  Hopefully, someday we'll win the lottery and no longer have to do this work-for-a-living schtick!

Gerard

How about the box that in 1897 contained the Hand Of Count Petofi.

Oh, that box!  A keen eye will see it popping up everywhere throughout the series, on end-tables, mantels, shelves, bureau tops, etc.  That box has been to more places than lost luggage on a United Airlines flight.

Speaking of boxes, it always amazed me that the naga box from the Leviathan storyline was rather small, and yet somehow that huge, coffee-table edition of the naga book was crammed into there.

Gerard

I think they were rather creative in costuming in order to save pennies or time.  I remember the scene in PT1970 where Angelique was wearing a lush evening gown, and in the next scene she had to appear that she just stepped out of bed.  They simply slapped a Sears off-the-wrack housecoat over the fancy fixin's and - voila! - Angelique changed from the evening's glamor girl to rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

Gerard

Arashi, that house is magnificent - truly a grand Old House!  And don't be so quick to dismiss a dream about purchasing it and turning it into a bed-and-breakfast (with DS-themed Halloween parties!).  Maybe, just maybe, there's someway, with a lotta determination, you could make that dream come true.  And we'd all be your first guests!  (I like my coffee black with lotsa caffeine for breakfast in the morning, please.)

Gerard

Back in the seventies, a major Milwaukee newspaper employed one of the first primitive computerized systems for editing stories, making sure that no naughty words slipped by accidentally.  And then a problem arose.  In the Sunday edition, there was a column in the entertainment section which listed the top-requested songs in the Milwaukee area.  The name of the column was Milwaukee's Hit Parade.  For some reason, the computer program kept kicking the title out, refusing to have it go to print.  The befuddled editors kept scratching their heads until they finally noticed why.  See if you can find in the name what the computer did, but the editors initially did not.

Gerard

Well, I'm over 40 and under 50.  I currently work with cognitive disabled children, and have lived all over the good, ol' U. S. of A., like Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona and Alaska.  I have several worthless degrees, including two useless masters.  I love to write as a hobby (had always hoped to be that great American author like Mark, but have to be satisfied with doing it just for fun), and my other great, obsessive passion is about ocean liners and other passenger ships.  I've got an extensive private library, plus some very, very valuable historical ocean liner collectibles which, fortunately, I've gotten rather cheaply from flea markets and such (good thing people don't know how valuable this stuff is - one piece I got while in Paris for around $40 American was appraised afterwards at being worth a minimum of five grand).  I love to sail on 'em, too, and last summer, through the graciousness of wonderful friends, I spent a month on board the brand new ocean liner Queen Mary 2.

There are some pics of me (if you want to risk looking) already on our illustrious message board, taken when I attended the 2003 Brooklyn DS Festival on the same day I arrived in New York City from - what else? - a cruise on another passenger ship (to Bermuda and back).  You'll find 'em in the Announcements archives.

Gerard

Uh-oh, I think I'm being techno-challenged.  How does one reply on a thread?  I can't find any place to click at the bottom.  I'm doing this by clicking "quote" (and then just not quoting).  I've looked all over the page of a thread, top and bottom, and can't find a "reply" icon!

Gerard (Who's Asking That You Don't Hate Me For Being A New-Message-Board-Format Dunce)