The Signs That You Might Be Addicted To DS

[The Ghost of Sarah Collins]

This is a grand topic!

34.) When speaking to some one... you suddenly turn your back to them, look from side to side then turn and say "because I wish it"

35.) You refer to parts of your house as the east and west wings.

36.) You tell strangers that you let the staff go 18 years ago.

37.) You find yourself refering to who ever does the yard work as Matthew.

38.) When your children are angry with you... its time to check the bleeder valve.

39.) You find yourself speaking to the Widows on very windy days.

40.) You wonder why everyone dosen't have black, green or blue candles around their house.

[Connie]

12.)  When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.

How did you know?

"I cannot tell you that.  I just know...."

                      

[Charles_Ellis]

41.) When afflicted with a sore throat, you wish that Lara Parker could pass her hand over your throat to cure it- as Angelique did for Barnabas in 7595!  (This happens to me all the time!)

[dom]

42, When you actually consider spending 150,000. more than you can afford on a home because it has a turret and a secret room.

43, When you are remodeling your home and insist that your architect create a secret panel to a secret room in your new floor plan.

44, When you find yourself humming the opening theme (Collinwood) everytime you see a structure with a turret.

45, When for the last 40 years, every time you go to the ocean you hum the title theme while viewing waves crashing on jetties or rock formations.

46, When you can't resist tugging on your chandelier just to hear the crystals clink.

47, When you actually take off one of those crystals and start chanting, "Find the center".

48, When you gave yourself Barnabas bangs for your 5th grade school picture.

49, When you use your two hands to push up your long hair into a mock-Liz hairdo and go around proclaiming, "Because I choose to do so!"

50, When as a child you would try and make your little brother dream about DS by acting like Barnabas and mock-biting his neck while he lay sleeping.

[Midnite]

47, When you actually take off one of those crystals and start chanting, "Find the center".

 

[Connie]

43, When you are remodeling your home and insist that your architect create a secret panel to a secret room in your new floor plan.

Yes!  Yes!! 

49, When you use your two hands to push up your long hair into a mock-Liz hairdo and go around proclaiming, "Because I choose to do so!"

ROFL 
(dom - I'd pay good money to see you do this)

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I LOVE dom's list.  Never thought about things I actually DID when I was young because of Dark Shadows.  Duh!!!

Signs you might be addicted to DS:

51.)  When you have a choice between two high schools you can attend, you choose the school that is housed in an old gothic structure - even though it's 8 times farther from your home than the other school.

52.)  Your parents are looking at houses to move to and you keep pushing for the one that has an old grave yard adjacent to the back yard.

53.)  You light your bedroom with nothing but candles because you live in the Old House.

 

[McTrooper]

54.) You wish porkchops where back in style.

55.) When you have a bad day you console yourself with the thought that at least paper cut outs of ghosts weren't chasing you. 

[Patti Feinberg]

48, When you gave yourself Barnabas bangs for your 5th grade school picture.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! thanks for the smile honey

[PennyDreadful]

56. When your little sister used to tell on you, you'd snarl, "You BETRAYED me!" when you found out.

57.  You started wearing a pentagram, a cross, and an anti-witchcraft amulet... just in case.

58.  You got a coffin, rubber bats and fake spider-webs, then used them as "furniture."

59. You didn't think twice about spending crazy money you didn't have on things like the Barnabas cane, DVDs, bubblegum cards, Joesette's music box, etc

60. You get way too excited when you run across a DS reference in an unrelated source - book, cd, movie, tv show, etc.

[Maybellique]

61. You start splicing your favorite characters together. Man, I would NEVER do that! *nervous laughter*
62. You add the words "Dark Shadows" to every conversation just to see if you've found another fan. (easy one. hope it wasn't taken)

~DJ

[michael c]

63.)when you see a woman...any woman...with long,lustrous black hair and you immediately picture her in a sleeveless dress walking across the foyer of collinwood.

[michael c]

64.)when you meet a rather serious,intense older lesbian in a bar who's name happens to be "victoria" and you proceed to bore this poor woman nearly to tears with a tipsy description of the d.s. character's background and mannerisms and hairdo and various storylines until she drily tells you that she's nothing like that and abruptly changes the subject.

65.)later...when the topic of conversation addresses serious issues of homophobia you clumsily try to re-introduce the show with the story of how barnabas had to bite willie loomis on the wrist because the network thought that having him bite him on the neck was too homoerotic.

[Ian]

12.)  When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.

Considering I don't have breakfast, yes! I usually check it within the first five minutes of waking up though. XD

[ClaudeNorth]

66.  When, in spite of the studio's glorious history, the sight of the MGM logo immediately calls to mind the two DS movies.

67.  When you remove the sleeves from all your garments...

68.  When you see a woman driving a car and remark, "Hey, that looks like Cavada Humphrey!"  (True story, by the way...)

69.  When you have enough awareness of Cavada Humphrey that you notice women who resemble her.

[arashi]

70. You hang around the docks at night hoping to meet up with a man with a cane
71. You become your own greatest work of art
72. You have a junk drawer filled with silver bullets, crucifixes and holy water
73. You have theme music for yourself that you play whenever you are around someone, just so they know you are there
74. You have a really crappy portrait painted of yourself which you hang in your house and hope it gives you immortality, but are secretly afraid that someone will steal it and tell an artist to age it 200 years
75. You name your pets after DS characters (I have)
76. You name your children after DS characters
77. You change your name legally to that of a DS character