All the talk about JY's nose and who he resembles takes me back to the last time this storyline aired.  I still think he looks like Clyde Crashcup!

Oh, my goodness, CB!  Clyde Crashcup!  Did that ever bring back childhood memories.  Now that's when they knew how to make cartoons.

Gerard

We may not know much about the general world of Parallel Time, but we do know that they are far more advanced in technology than Normal Time, at least Normal Time in Dark Shadows world.  I noticed something in Buffy Harrington's apartment, something I don't think I've seen in NT DS:  an electronic box with a glass screen.  I've heard tell that it's called a television.  And can you believe what it does?  It actually picks up transmissions of sound and pictures.  What other wonders could they have in that other time that do not exist in NT - at least not in DS NT?

Gerard

In honor of MB's wonderful one-pic montage of the schnozz, I want to wish everyone a Happy Nose Day.  I will celebrate it in style, as I am afflicted with summer allergies, and I don't even need the putty to make mine look like that.  But I will use my special nasal spray (which I will now call Yaeger's Antihistamine) just for this occasion, along with lotion-enriched tissue for when I need to vacate it.

Gerard

Hey gang,

If there had been a PT counterpart of Phillip Todd, do you think that old Phil would still be sporting that groovy hairdo, Mr. Rogers cardigan sweater, and those absolutely God awful, ugly #ss gray plaid pants of his?

Bob the Bartender, who does all of his clothes shopping via the internet with the fine folks from Habands.

Surely, Bob, you had a pair of pants just like those back then - I did!  I mean, wearing them made one the envy of the fashion-conscious at Washington Junior High School.  Of course, they were not always worn - one did not want to run the risk of wearing them out.  It took a great deal of work, and pleading with one's mom when out clothes shopping, to get that oh-so-important groovy look.

Gerard

Owwee, Annie!  Now that's enough of that stuff, you hear!  We don't want you having any more problems like that, or else we're gonna hafta fish Adam out of the water at the bottom of Widow's Hill and pull some of his parts out to fix it!  You be careful with that knee, and I'm sure the doctor will fix it to rights for you.

Gerard

Quote from: Gerard on June 20, 2003, 02:50:55 AM

can the montages be downloaded?

Not yet. But once the Members' Archive comes back online, I plan to make all the montages that I have copies of available for download.

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I have an entire zipdisc filled with them.

Hmmm - if I ask really nicely, do you think that maybe I could get copies of some of the early montages? I lost my copies of montages #1 through #159 when the hard drive I had them stored on crashed  a few years ago and I foolishly hadn't backed them up. 

Sure, MB - and you don't even hafta ask!  I'll start hunting through my stuff and see which one they're on.  I'm one of those who never marks his discs, thinking, "oh, I know now what's on it and I'll mark it later".  Of course, I never do, so I end up looking at each one 'til I find what I want.  Naturally, it's always on the last one.  I do the same thing with stuff I record on video-tapes.  Some people never learn.

Gerard

Quote from: CrazyJenny on June 20, 2003, 09:51:46 PM

Talk about scary, I saw a grave stone in the cemetary with my name on it.  I believe it was from the 1800s?  It gave me chills.

No kidding. It's a Sicilian tradition (in my family anyway) to name the first two boys and girls in your family after your Father's and Mother's parents, respectively. So when you end up attending their funerals you end up seeing your name on their tombstones. A very "weird" experience...

I have so many Joeys in my family it's not funny! LOL. (Oops, I guess it *is* funny)

dom

That reminds me of the episode on Cheers where Carla was suppose to follow a similar Italian tradition (well, according to the show) regarding one of her sons.  She didn't want to do it because one name was Benito.  And the other name was Mussolini.  Carla's mom (played hysterically by Sada Thompson) tried to fake dying to trick Carla into doing it.  The whole thing was a riot, one of the funniest episodes of the series.

Gerard

Ya, Vlad, you found it!  Neat!  I remember seeing a publicity photo in a book taken from the play, but don't ask me who the actresses were, 'cause I don't remember.  Once you get your copy, you should really see about the possibility of having it performed.  If a bunch of 20-year-old college kids using lumber (constructing the staircase was the hardest, but we got our dads with their tools and electric saws to come and do that), cardboard, borrowed furniture, and costumes which consisted of Good Will finds altered into Victorian garb by our mothers and their magical sewing machines, could produce a rendition that left the audiences stunned and creeped, it can be done!

I also enjoyed what I call the "One Day At a Time" (because of Valerie Bertinelli) version of The Turn of the Screw - hardly a classic, but very enjoyable, and it still pops up on the Lifetime Network.  I wonder if they changed the governess from being British to being an American (and a widow to boot, I believe from my faulty memory) because Valerie couldn't do a good British accent.

Gerard