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  1. I've never seen his shows (I'm not sure if they were shown over here), but I'm familiar with him through memes! It's so odd for me listening to Thomas being narrated by an American. The fictional setting of the Island of Sodor is so British (it's meant to be located in the Irish Sea between the English mainland and the Isle of Man). BTW. Last weekend marked the 80th anniversary of The Railway Stories (AKA. Thomas and Friends) - there's an article about it here. At least the music's good to dance to.
    3 points
  2. HossC

    The last 24 hours

    I've just spent the evening at a bar (very unusual for me) listening to a couple of local guys playing live music on acoustic guitars. It was a good mix of traditional Irish songs and old favorites. What surprised me was the number of Americans at the bar. The first people I spoke to were from just across the Indiana border from Chicago, but there were three groups from California (Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles), one from Seattle and another from Florida. I know where I live is a popular tourist destination, but I rarely get to speak to the visitors.
    3 points
  3. I'm sure I've asked before but I can't find it, but what were the 3 wooden plaques in Boss' office at the Boor's Nest? 1. One bad turn deserves another 2. Do unto others before they do it unto you. 3. ??????? * * I'd appreciate any help finding the 3rd one and if you know it, the episode that shows it. I asked a long time ago and thought later on, I'll find it but never have.
    2 points
  4. HossC

    NASCAR news

    George Russell took a very impressive pole for Mercedes in Singapore yesterday with an in-form Max Verstappen in second ahead of title leader Oscar Piastri. Williams, who had qualified 12th and 13th, had both cars disqualified due to illegal rear wing openings, so started at the back. Oscar's team mate Lando Norris got a good start from fifth and managed to take third after some minor contact. Charles Leclerc also got away well and got to fourth ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli. There was a bit of place swapping in the mid-field, but it's a hard to overtake in Singapore. Despite a spin by Nico Hulkenberg on lap 45, the race avoided any form of safety car for the second year in a row. Toward the end, Lando was closing on Max, but just couldn't get past. At the flag, George Russell took his second win of the year ahead of Max and Lando. Oscar nearly caught the battle ahead, but had to settle for fourth. Lewis had a quick second half of the race, but ceded his position to Charles near the end, and was also penalized a position for exceeding track limits when his brakes faded. Finishing third and fourth, Lando only closed the gap to Oscar by three points in the Drivers' Championship. They did, however, do enough for McLaren to claim this year's Constructors' Championship with six races to go. That's back-to-back wins for the team. You can see the race highlights here. We're back stateside for the next race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin in two weeks.
    2 points
  5. HossC

    A-Z Game

    "Anybody that'd lie to Daisy is UN-AMERICAN."
    2 points
  6. RogerDuke

    A-Z Game

    cletus is a bit KOOKY
    2 points
  7. HossC

    2018 NFL

    I heard that a player had been robbed, but not who it was until after I saw your post. Sadly, there seems to be a trend of attacks in Dublin at the moment. An English tourist was stabbed (but survived) in the same area last week. I don't know if they've caught anyone or announced the nationality of the attackers. By all accounts the NFL game was a success, so it's such a shame that it was marred by an incident like this.
    2 points
  8. HossC

    2018 NFL

    Vikings are reported to have reached Newfoundland via Iceland and Greenland in 1021AD.
    2 points
  9. HossC

    Model Car

    So, are you going to turn your kit into a Charger Daytona? I don't know much about 3D printing, but www.printables.com has downloadable files for a General Lee including the push bar.
    2 points
  10. HossC

    Model Car

    They used some '68 Chargers in the show, so it's still authentic. The main differences between the '68 and '69 Chargers are the front grille, the rear lights and the side markers. You can sand off the side markers (as they did with the real ones). You can probably fabricate the front grille divider (they had center pieces to clip to '68 grilles on some cars in the show). The tail lights will be trickier to change.
    2 points
  11. HossC

    Model Car

    You can see various documented model builds in the Hobbies forum. You might pick up some tips there.
    2 points
  12. Well fellow Hazzardites, my gut is still bothering me from my operation but the doc says it's looking good but I don't think so. I've been housebound almost a whole month! I get on here every now and then when I can. I'm just having to wait until I can get back to my usual! ( My usual everything!! )
    2 points
  13. Tom Duke

    The last 24 hours

    Well y’all in the past 24 hours, life hasn’t been too eventful but I did go to visit a friend who was staying in town, hung out with her and her doggo. Cute as button, but so strong. That pup pulled me and I’m a full grown man. What happened was she was just going to get something at the nearby convenience store… the dog went nuts and started pulling me along even though I dug my heels in. Guess you just can’t get between a dog and their momma. Lol.
    2 points
  14. Spike

    The last 24 hours

    Went to the local GM plant's car show today. Over 300 cars, possibly 400 showed up. One that stuck out for me was a restored Hudson pickup truck. Never seen one before. Since it was invitation only it was pretty much hot rods and muscle cars. They might go back to open registration again next year. Few years ago they had some trouble with a few people and police showed up so that's when they made it invitation only, you have to work there or worked there or know someone that works there that will write you in.
    2 points
  15. HossC

    NASCAR news

    A couple of pieces of F1 news. Firstly, Cadillac F1 recently announced F1 veterans Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will be their drivers next season. Now they've added IndyCar race winner Colton Herta as their test driver. Secondly, Irish driver Alex Dunne gets his second chance to drive an F1 McLaren in the first practice session this weekend at Monza.
    2 points
  16. Yes, but that's why I put it up in front of you guys.....if anybody can help me, it would be ya'll!!
    1 point
  17. That's a tough one Hobie.
    1 point
  18. HossC

    A-Z Game

    Swamp Molly's nephew was at YALE Divinity School.
    1 point
  19. Boss JD Hogg

    A-Z Game

    Hazzard County is a VERY nice place to live.
    1 point
  20. HossC

    Word Association

    That's because this is Word Association, not the A-Z Game. My "pussycat" still stands!
    1 point
  21. Hobie Hartkins

    2018 NFL

    They advertised about the game over here and talked about it before and after but did anybody hear about Jay Cutler ( former??) QB of the Bears. He got arrested for DUI.
    1 point
  22. HossC

    2018 NFL

    Roger, I assume you were happy with the result at the weekend. Was there much made of the game being played in Ireland in the US media?
    1 point
  23. Hobie Hartkins

    A-Z Game

    enos LOVES daisy!
    1 point
  24. Mississippi (born there....I love the song Louisiana woman Mississippi man(with Loretta) ...he really was one)
    1 point
  25. Boss JD Hogg

    A-Z Game

    JUNGLE JITTERS - The Dukes Cartoon.
    1 point
  26. HossC

    2018 NFL

    It was longer than 500 years. The Vikings originally invaded Ireland in 795AD. but the Normans took over starting in 1169AD. Does that mean that the Steelers are representing the Normans in this battle?
    1 point
  27. Just Google "Meteorites for sale" and you will see tons of them. The problem is that lots of them aren't real. It's best to buy from reputable dealers but it can be hard to know which ones are reputable. That has always kept me from buying one.
    1 point
  28. bo-go-vroom

    Model Car

    Im not sure if this fits better here or in fan art, but, I'm starting a new project. I bought a 1:25 scale 68 Charger at Hobby Lobby. There were, unfortunately, no 69 in stock, with no nearby hobby stores. And buying models online is a gamble that I don't want to risk. I'm going to try my best to turn it into The General! So if any of you have any tips, tricks, or recommend products, I would be very grateful if you could share!
    1 point
  29. bo-go-vroom

    Model Car

    With that, might as well just build the whole thing and make my 68 something different and then have two cars......but thats more money......oh the descions!
    1 point
  30. HossC

    2018 NFL

    On the news this afternoon they said there are a lot of Americans in Dublin for the game, and many are looking the wrong way when crossing the street!
    1 point
  31. HossC

    2018 NFL

    Roger, I didn't want to start a new thread for this, but I see your Steelers are playing the Vikings in Ireland this weekend. Although we've hosted college games before, this is the first full NFL game to be played here. Apparently, I missed the Terrible Towel Tour when it came to town earlier this week. They covered eight counties in four days. Max Starks was talking about it earlier on the radio. I don't know if the link will work outside of Ireland, but hopefully you can hear him here.
    1 point
  32. Spike

    The last 24 hours

    Got an inch and a half of rain the other night. It'll help but unfortunately next 7-10 days there's barely any rain forecasted. The drought at work has ended too for now. Got slammed with orders this week which is great, hopefully it keeps up for a while so we can build savings back up after the car repair earlier this month. The other night I was able to get a close up picture of a hummingbird hawk moth that was on one of my prairie sunflowers. There was about 4 of them fluttering around the garden. One happened to land on a 5 foot tall flower and sat there long enough for me to get several pics of it.
    1 point
  33. How do you BUY a meteorite? Is that like buying the Brooklyn bridge???
    1 point
  34. bo-go-vroom

    Model Car

    You are so helpful omg. My dad has a 3d printer so I could probably ask him to help me withsome sort of conversion kit and then that just leaves the painting and decals (which are all in Europe for some reason??) So I hope the international shipping isnt too expensive. And I cant decide if I wanna paint the mechanical bits or not. Do I save money and just cover them up, or say f*** it and have a pretty build
    1 point
  35. We had 'The New Yankee Workshop' and 'This Old House' on TV in the UK about 20 years ago (I haven't seen them recently). I'll have to check out 'The Woodwrights Shop' - it's a new one to me.
    1 point
  36. Does anyone here remember a guy on PBS called Bob Ross? His voice was so relaxing!
    1 point
  37. We've been getting quite a bit of rain too Spike. So nice to see this drought break. Gonna need a lot more than this to fill the wells back up.
    1 point
  38. RogerDuke

    NASCAR news

    Good question. I always worry when someone is gone awhile.
    1 point
  39. Hobie Hartkins

    NASCAR news

    Hey where's Garrett been lately??
    1 point
  40. RogerDuke

    NASCAR news

    Last night was the last pro dirt bike races of the year. I watched the first 2 out of 4 but couldn't do the other 2 because I got up at 6 yesterday morning. The races were in Vegas. I'm like Garrett after NASCAR....sad. Or, I will be after watching these last two races I have recorded.
    1 point
  41. RogerDuke

    A-Z Game

    BEULAH mae....emma's sister
    1 point
  42. same here.....
    1 point
  43. RogerDuke

    A-Z Game

    boss has large QUANTITIES of money
    1 point
  44. HossC

    A-Z Game

    The Dukes had to got to town to get OATS for Maudine
    1 point
  45. Could it have been 'The New Yankee Workshop'? Norm Abram, who was also on 'This Old House', made some amazing items out of wood on that show.
    1 point
  46. HossC

    HELLO!!!

    I'm still here. I've been here every day reading posts, but I've been trying to shake a head cold all week, and didn't realize that I hadn't posted since Monday.
    1 point
  47. EXCELLENT!! Irish women are the best!! * Well hopefully I'll be back home at this time tomorrow, if the doctor decides to let me go. If not.....it will be sometime Wednesday! .....hopefully! So if you don't see me on here for a while you'll know where I'm at! Healing up/sleeping it off/drugged up etc.!
    1 point
  48. Hobie Hartkins

    NASCAR news

    WOW! I bet it'd take Cooter all weekend to fix that thing!!
    1 point
  49. HossC

    NASCAR news

    F1 was back from its summer break yesterday with the Dutch Grand Prix. Unlike other F1 tracks, Zandvoort has banked curves. Lando Norris was quickest in practice, but his team mate Oscar Piastri claimed pole by 12 thousandths of a second. Local favorite Max Verstappen started third. Oscar kept his lead at the start, but Max got past Lando on the opening lap. Lando got his second place back on lap 9. Rain threatened to disrupt the race, but none of the teams felt the need to fit wet weather tires. However, Lewis Hamilton went slightly wide on one of the damp banked corners and hit the barrier ending his race. It was a bad day for Ferrari as Charles Leclerc also had to retire when Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli clipped his car and spun it off. It looked like being another McLaren 1-2 finish until Lando's engine failed with just seven laps to go. That promoted Max to second behind Oscar and gave RB driver Isack Hadjar his first F1 podium finish. With three of the top cars out, Red Bull, Aston Martin and Haas all had both cars scoring points. With nine races to go, Oscar now has a commanding lead of 34 points over Lando. Most teams will be fitting new engines for next week's Italian Grand Prix at Monza. You can watch the highlights of the Dutch Grand Prix here.
    1 point
  50. HossC

    The last 24 hours

    I saw the phrase "Tír na nÓg" (it means "Land of Youth") painted on several buildings, and the bar was advertising "Ceol Anocht" ("Music Tonight"), but I don't think it was the Celtic Women. It was probably traditional Irish music, but we had food waiting at the house, so we didn't stay to find out. Just to keep you happy, Roger:
    1 point
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