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  8. One Word Song Titles

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    (Dance Mix)

    Another great track from the '80s (sorry there's no video, but this one had the best audio - the original video is available on YouTube). For those of you who like their music darker and heavier, there's also cover version by

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  12. The Official Dukes of Hazzard Trivia Thread

    in Dukes of Hazzard Trivia

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    I should know this since it's one of my favorite episodes.

    I'll guess a patrol car and some flowers.

    If I was a betting man I'd bet I'm wrong about both.

    Roger, you could win a fortune betting against yourself :). No correct answers yet. I'll make it multiple choice - it's two of the following:

    A) War memorial sign

    B) The Boars Nest

    C) Jesse's pickup

    D) Old cannon

    E) General Lee

    F) Boss's Cadillac

    G) Gas pump

  13. Signs of Hazzard

    in Fan Art

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    Here's an unfinished variation of the 'Drive Carefully' billboard from 'Goodbye General Lee'. This one doesn't get destroyed, although the painter ends up on the hood of Cooter's tow truck. The exclamation mark is different in this one and there's also an extra star either side of the 'National Safety Week' text at the top.

    MoreSigns1.jpg

    Lulu (appropriately) gets her own billboard in 'Share and Share Alike':

    MoreSigns2.jpg

  19. The Official Dukes of Hazzard Trivia Thread

    in Dukes of Hazzard Trivia

    Posted

    Hmmm, I think it was the Fresh Prince of Chickasaw County.

    That would have made an interesting episode Roger, but I think you misunderstand for comic effect :). Besides, when 'Any Which Way You Can' was made Will Smith would have been 11 years old - hardly a fair match-up to Clint in a fight. Waikiki got the right answer.

    Q. In 'Granny Annie', which denomination of US currency was she forging?.

  21. Wacky Hazzard Tickets

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    I wouldn't feel too sorry for the guy. Apparently that was equivalent to 14 days' income, but he said they'd used the wrong year's income to calculate the fine and he got it reduced to $5,245 on appeal.

    I can't find a definitive answer about what happens to someone with no income, although I did find that fixed fines were used for offenders just over the speed limit. The minimum of these is about $60, so I guess they have to pay that.

    I found another case from January last year in Switzerland where a repeat speeding offender was caught driving his Ferrari at 85 mph through a village. They must have a similar system to Finland because they assessed his overall wealth ($22.7m) and fined his $290,000. I can't find any reference to an appeal, so I guess he had to pay.

    This may be beaten by another Swiss case from August last year. A Swedish driver was caught doing 290 km/h (180 mph) in his new Mercedes SLS AMG. He'd avoided a couple of speed cameras by driving too fast for them to photograph him before being pulled over by police with a radar gun. His car was impounded, and he could have to pay 300 days' impound fees, which works out at about $1,000,000 - now that would put a smile on Boss's face :).

    I remember from old episodes of Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld that Switzerland isn't exactly the motorist's friend.

    From Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld:

    "I was stopped by the police who were concerned that the V8 engine in my TVR, and especially its Matrix Churchill supergun exhaust system, was too loud.

    Strange that at no point in the conversation did they say anything about the loaded Kalashnikov [rifle] on the passenger seat."

    Remember that in the UK, gun ownership is illegal for most people, and tightly controlled for the rest, so that is the point that is being made - loud exhaust vs loaded gun, which is more dangerous?.

    Other strange Swiss motoring laws include not being allowed to wash your car on a Sunday, and having to carry a spare pair of glasses in your car if you need them for driving.

  22. Signs of Hazzard

    in Fan Art

    Posted

    I can't remember a national safety week.

    Hopefully somebody will because now I'm curious.

    I think the 'National Saftey Week' banner was just added for comic irony as Rosco demolished the sign.

    Did you recreate the Boss image or is that a copy/paste? Looks great.

    I straightened and merged a couple of screengrabs (all the billboards seem to use the same image), tidied them up and masked out the background. I then let my vector program do an outline trace of the image and added a bit to the color saturation. That produced the image below which (in vector form) contains nearly 400 separate objects:

    Boss.jpg

    Originally I only intended to use it for the sign on the back of Miz Tisdale's cab, but then I thought of these billboards. As you can see, vector art isn't great at photo-realism and gives a 'solarized' effect when blown up, but it won't go blocky. A couple of hours' work with fountain fills and blends could make it more convincing, but not much fun for me :). The advantage of having the image in vector format is that it can be scaled and dropped onto any background.

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