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This should be the final F1 hijack of the year . Last night, Lewis Hamilton won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. It's presented annually to the sportsperson judged to have achieved the most that year. The winner is chosen by the public from a shortlist. "The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom." It's Lewis' second win, with his first back in 2014.

We're just going to stay home this year. I will be dropping off a few Christmas dinner plates to a few friends though. Roger Christmas Returns to Willow Creek is streaming on airy.tv all month so you can still catch it there and probably a few other streaming apps. Y'all have a Merry Christmas.

Christmas If you have a clear sky get out and enjoy the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction or as some call it the Christmas star.

Nothing special here either. At the moment the shops are still open as normal, but the number of new Covid cases has jumped for the past couple of days. Everyone's being told to be sensible over the Christmas period and keep social interaction to a minimum. The UK upped their lockdown on Friday night and then again last night. They have a new strain that spreads more quickly, so they're back to essential shops only (tough for all the men who leave their Christmas shopping until Christmas Eve!). Several European countries, including Ireland, have put a 48 ban on flights to/from the UK, so it's a good job I wasn't going home for Christmas.

No special plans for us. My wife just had her feet operated on and she doesn't feel like traveling to my mother's ( like we always have), so we'll probably just hang around the house! ( Watch Christmas shows on TV...??? Do they show them that late on the Day itself??)

I just got done watching one of the 3 celebrity Family Feuds the Dukes were on. My wife got it on You Tube. The Dukes beat the Walton's and won for Special Olympics after Daisy got 192 points and Luke easily finished the job. Also on the team were Jesse, Rosco and Boss. Sorrell's normal voice sounded so unusual. They also played against the cast of a show called Angie. In another one, no top level actors played. They were going up against The Jefferson's and had Cletus, Lulu, Hughie, Mabel Tillingham and Jeb Stuart Duke. When Jeb explained that he was a new Duke Richard Dawson asked him how long he's been on the show and he said "one week".

Sorrell Booke was on M.A.S.H. as a General, in " Requiem For A Light Weight" S.1 E.3 He had the mustache, glasses, etc. going.He was fat but not AS fat as he was in TDOH...probably because it was real fat and not those fat pads he wore under his Boss Hogg outfit!

Meter maid? Hmm....I think instead what I'll do is buy those DVD's "Bay City Police Procedures" (otherwise known as S&H), study them and then practice those new methods on some unsuspectin' thug, such as yourself. Then, assumin' you live, *you* and the rest of yer kind can go to Green Acres. BAHAHAHAHHAHAA!! MaryAnne

GAAAAAAH!! That's a disturbin' thought, MaryAnne. 'Cept I don't think Starsky & Hutch would be lookin' to take on any apprentices. Then again, Bay City always needs more meter maids.... I'm sure they'd find an assignment for ya. Heh heh. Brian

Hmm....I wonder if Bay City is offering any advanced police trainin'. I think I oughta sign up... MaryAnne

I always have fun watching Starsky and Hutch episodes. It's edgy and melodramatic. Also had it's share of humorous moments. Paul and David had a good rapport both on the screen and off; and that chemistry added nuances to the show that scripting alone didn't create. Sometimes the show fell into a pattern, where the bad guys du jour were trying to find interesting and creative ways to eliminate a cop. You could summarize some eps in the following: Starsky gets captured by a cult that intends to make a sacrifice out of him. Hutch panics. Starsky gets captured by a bad guy who slowly poisons him. Hutch panics. Hutch is missing after a hitman shoots out a tire and his car goes careening off a cliff. Starsky panics. Hutch is missing, and poisoned, and captured by a bad guy. Starsky panics. I'm poking a little fun at them here, but the above descriptions more or less give an accurate ep synopsis. But in truth, it was the bad guys that usually had to panic. Pound for pound, I think the detective duo killed more bad guys outright, than they ever arrested. Talk about a homicide unit. I recall one ep, where Hutch was kidnapped by bad guys ( and yes, Starsky panicked ) and once Hutch was thrown out of the car, Starsky took a few crazed shots at the fleeing vehicle's gas tank and blew it to firey smithereens. I think he got three or four bad guys right there. Which is why I avoid Bay City at all costs. No wonder so many bad guys find their way to Hazzard County! Brian

Hey Cousin Roger Duke... You posted this topic on my birthday. Wow!

I see they finally put the right body in the kit. The kit I have the body was of a Charger 500 instead of a regular Charger body.