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Sowwy. *blushes*
I see your point. Shoulda used verbal chew out instead. I just get so upset whenever stuff like that comes up. That and I wasn't raised with that being a racist word, it applying toward any ethnicity. I do apologize as I keep forgetting that it is racially charged in some arenas. I didn't realize i had forgotten that until I seen your second post. I'll go back and change it to be more acceptable.
Er... would like to anyway.
Mufn, could you do me a favor and change it for me? I am so sorry.
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Oops, sorry Mufn. I actually meant Lynched with words but my cat distracted me while I was typing. A verbal hanging if you would.
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Yeah, I did a somewhat in depth study of them a few years ago, at least, for the Revolutionary War period. I have a good friend who is a historian who allowed me to borrow some books. At the time I was teaching our colonial color guard and I wanted to know my flag history for that.
As for the Grand Union flag: I wonder why! ROFL. There's just something about that English Naval Jack being featured on it that might have something to do with that?
Coincidentally, that flag gave Washington and his troops a one up against the British a couple of times, because it resembled the East Indies Company's flag, just a different number of stripes. Also, the English flag of the time featured the canton like the entire flag is now, only they had a red field. When the Americans raised the Grand Union, the British thought the Patriots were surrendering (I wonder why LOL JK). But that is part of the reason the flag was changed. Also, the Grand Union was originally used in hopes of an eventual reconciliation with England, but as the British started attempting to use a heavier and heavier hand, hopes of reconciliation gave way to the hopes of building a new nation, so the flag was changed to reflect these views. The English Canton was removed and a blue canton with thirteen stars in its foreground became the new flag - and they weren't necessarily in a circle. There was also an arrangement used in which the stars were in a similar pattern to where they are now. The flags generally varied by regiment and company.
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Alright, so I was having a nice dream the other day, Dukes related of course
and the strangest of strange things happens, and I mean, this was strange for even a dream!I got a log in screen. A big, yellow log in screen.
Needless to say, I woke up after a few moments of viewing this. I mean it was one of those moments where you want to wake up yellin' 
I mean... Wow.
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*steals soap box out from under Brian* Actually, the KKK didn't adopt the confederate flag as it's symbol until after the 1930's. During the 1930's they typically used old glory in the form of it's Betsy Ross flag incarnation (Same as now, but instead of fifty stars in the canton, it was 13 arranged in a circle for those who don't know which flag I'm talking about).
To be truthful, there were several incarnations of the confederate flag, but the one which seems to draw the controversy is the confederate naval jack. The stars and bars is usually overlooked and had a completely different look from what flew on the General's roof... but if you put it in an array with other flags and asked a student to pick it out... they probably wouldn't be able to, unless they were a flag historian.
I have several african american friends who know I have a love for the confederate flag in all its incarnations, and they are fine with it, BECAUSE they know I love history and they know I'm not racist.
There was a recent article on MSNBC which I think just wasn't right: A girl got thrown out of her high school prom because she wore a dress which resembled the confederate naval jack. I mean, has this school ever heard of the first amendment? Has the NAACP ever heard of freedom of expression or freedom of speech?
Personally, I believe if you use the flag out of context, you should be lynched. That goes for the KKK as well as NAACP. Stop f***ing with historical symbols!
Shoot, the NAACP even had the confederate flag removed from a confederate historical monument (confederate old soldiers home in Virginia). The freakin' Union was okay with the flag, they even paid for the home to be built after the war. African Americans even donated to the cause of building it. The flag flying didn't bother any of them! AND it's illegal to require the removal of the confederate flags from a confederate monument, illegal to fly a union flag on a confederate monument, and illegal to fly a confederate flag on a union monument.
I'm not racist, but white or black, you break the law and mess with historical monuments and symbols, you need your behind beat.
Also, the confederacy was in fact training free african americans to fight for the cause of the independence of the southern states. They weren't drafted. They were willing to take up the arms for the south, because the war wasn't truly about slavery! That was Northern Propaganda. The north stated the southern states left because they viewed Lincoln as an abolitionist... guess what, Lincoln had no plans on freeing the slaves.
And for that matter, slaves weren't necessarily black. They were white, red, yellow, etc as well.
And the NAACP want to talk about whites being racist? What about all the white men being beaten nearly to death over the Trayvon Martin case in Florida right now? Tell me that's not racist. Racism has many faces. It's more than just caucasians who practice it. Wake up NAACP, your own people are inciting this behavior!
AND one more thing. The NAACP need to take and watch a TV show before they judge it. Not just a few clips or a few episodes, but the show in its entirety, before they make judgement. Taking things out of context seems to make them happy... well guess what, racism is taking things out of context too. Racism is about flash judgement, which is something the NAACP is supporting in their own way!
Don't take your anger out on historical symbols. Take your anger out on people who use them out of context.
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Cooter (You had to have known that was coming Hoss:lol:)
Hazzard Garage (sorry, had to jump in)
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Howdy Folks,
This is just another friendly little reminder about the chat next week. There's just a week left starting tomorrow night before the Community Chat.
Remember, be there, or look like Rosco when he's up a tree... involuntarily.
Remember:
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
8:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time
Tomorrow's the chat!
(Sorry but I'll be a tinsy bit late due to a prior engagement)
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Easy to miss LOL. Been so long since I actually watched the show, I had forgotten about them.
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amazingly, yellow (amber) means the same thing here as there.
Sorry I missed that one.Maybe Cooter shoulda had one on his tow truck?
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I automatically run spell check, so you wouldn't be worrying about the spelling issue, nor the grammar in the quotations. Most of the problems seem to be more in the area of punctuation or the usage of past or present tense. There are also some choppy areas which need to run more smoothly. I have already done some light editing, but if you like, I can send over a few chapters to see what you think. They are already in HTML format.
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Did you do good in school? Interested in previews of stories before they are publicly posted? Enjoy giving feed back, be it positive or negative? Do you enjoy the more technical aspects of the English Language? Have too much time on your hands?
Then I have the job for you!
I am currently looking for a Beta Reader, also known as a Proof Reader, to edit stories as they are being written. They are Dukes of Hazzard stories. So far there is just one needing beta read at the moment, and it is an in progress story.
If interested, please contact me via private message, visitor message, or by answering this thread.
Please, if you cannot use punctuation, use run on sentences regularly, and generally use something which resembles the English Language but lacks sentence structure, do not apply.
You may be asked to provide examples of your own work or if there is a lack of this, previous posts on the forums will be looked at and or you will be asked to engage in conversation.
-Hilery
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Hoss, zoom in and clean that back left panel up. It looks like you can see the director's chair and behind the scenes people over there.
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Speakin' of the back end of the General Lee, if you pay attention in the reunion movie, the first one, the black area surrounding the tail lights is painted orange, but, if you look at the clips they stole from the show to avoid stunt driving, shows it as black. It's the tail light panel.
Sorry, they just make it oh so obvious!
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Easily distracted much Mufn? LOL
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Like I said Brian, you wouldn't have found it on the listings. When they aired it, it was labeled as "Paid Programming."
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In other words, they treated the show horribly. It would have been better had they just sat on it instead of using it as "Filler Programming." If and when it aired, it was labeled as "Paid Programming" on TV Guide. Hence, of course, why it was so easily over looked.
I would have posted comments about that years ago when ABC Family owned the rights to the show, but at the time I had no internet access.
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Howdy Folks,
This is just another friendly little reminder about the chat next week. There's just a week left starting tomorrow night before the Community Chat.
Remember, be there, or look like Rosco when he's up a tree... involuntarily.
Remember:
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
8:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time
Today is Friday, April 27th. Four more days before the monthly chat.
Remember, be there, or Rosco will cuff you and stuff you.
well, not really... but still, you should come!Possible topics may include:
The Dukes of Hazzard (Duh)
Computers
Fanfiction
Current Events
The actors
Video games
The wacky weather
Goofing off
Creative ways to procrastinate
and much more!
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For TNN to aquire the Dukes, it would have to aquire whatever bundle the Dukes came in. (It's not impossible for a show to be licensed by itself but these days it's less common.) This is how ABC Family Channel ended up owning the rights to Dukes a few years ago - and they sat on it and never aired it. Frankly it was a party when CMT got the rights again and put it back on the air.
Actually Brian, ABC Family did air the Dukes... but it was in the 2-3 am slot, and there was no guarantee that was the show they were going to air on any given night (and they didn't submit it to TV Guide). They also had a lovely banner they put before the show any time it aired, even coming off the commercials stating that the show did not represent their views.
I only know this because I stumbled across it during a 2am channel surfing session... well more than one, but when I went to watch it again another night after finding it, or the next week, it wasn't on, then it would be on the following week and so forth. It was usually around 2 am on Saturday or Sunday if they were going to show it.
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... and here I always thought if Rosco tried something like that, he would end up in last place in a one person showing! LOL. Nice job Mufn, glad Rosco was stubborn enough to win.
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Rare disease awareness day was recently (I'm a little slow on the draw by about a month), but it got me to thinking, with another awareness day coming up for a disease, why not issue a challenge to raise awareness of rare diseases?
I am currently writing a story with a friend to help raise awareness for Hereditary Angioedema which has such a long road to diagnosis for so many people, and the emergency rooms, many don't know how to treat it. Many a doctor has never heard of it, or they only hear the "AngioEdema" instead of the whole name, which they are two different monsters.
Raising awareness to rare diseases will help people on the road to diagnosis, and remove some of the road blocks to treatment.
My challenge to my fellow writers:
Write a story with a rare disease (Many of which are genetic). Do research, and learn about the chosen disease and treatments. This will be especially helpful to you or your loved ones if the rare disease runs in your family. Can't come up with a rare disease? Go ahead and use a more common one (or look up orphan diseases on wikipedia), but the point is, to raise awareness of the disease.
If you choose to write about a disease which is genetic, I recommend having at least two characters with the disease. You don't have to, but it is what I recommend. The characters may be nearly asymptomatic until a certain point in the story. Just remember, with rare diseases, including genetic ones, the road to diagnosis is usually long and hard, with many a misdiagnosis given.
And although rare diseases are a very serious issue in the world today, please, try to have fun learning and writing about them.
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So I've been working with K-Duke to write a story recently, and I just realized, it probably belongs under the cliche's.
Of course, a character gets hurt, and another is suffering from a rare disease and the story shall track her progress and road to a diagnosis and treatment... and toss in a love story or two... yes the character injury and the character illness definitely puts it under cliche, somewhere I wasn't even aiming for.
How did I come up with the rare disease idea? Because... unfortunately, I have it
The story idea came about to help me deal with the disease.The first national HAE Awareness Day is May 16th... which is the deadline I set for us to at least get something posted. We'll probably miss it because we started the story so late due to lack of a working computer (which I recently got a working computer so...)
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Yeah, and if we find enough musicians, we could start a hazzardnet musicians club LOL.
It would be so nice to discuss the finer points of teaching and music with other people.
I mean... last night I was teaching a lesson, and it was a complete and utter power struggle. Fifteen year old student, kept stepping out of his own lesson and begging me to let him teach. I kept saying no, and he kept trying to take the lesson out from under me. Finally, I said, Fine, Here!
Big mistake. She is a raw beginner I was teaching. When I say raw, I mean, before last night, she couldn't even blow into the instrument and make a sound, let alone hold it. I had to rescue him when he was trying to explain how to hold the instrument, and give a few clues, and then the other instructor who teaches the advanced group, such as the 15 year old, stepped in and took over because it was so pitiful. The girl would have gotten so much further with her lesson had I not threw up my hands. Needless to say, the 15 year old, when the other instructor (who is almost 70) took over, he did not try to undermine the lesson.
We practice at the local boys and girls club, and I remember at one point, we could fan out into separate rooms to avoid these types of problems. Now they make us use a single room, which, pardon my language, is hell when you're trying to teach two different groups or more. And this is not the first lesson this student has tried to slip out from under me.
I have a total of 3 beginning fife students, and he tries to undermine me in all their lessons!I mean... it's frustrating. When I first started teaching, I had already had experience assisting the teachers, and sitting in on beginners lessons (which I am grateful to my violin teacher for in middle school), and when I started teaching beginners on the fife, I had help... well no, I started out teaching how to read music
and substituting, but, when it came down to that, when I started teaching how to play, I didn't start out with raw beginners. I started out with students who were learning the fingerings, who had a few lessons... and gradually, with assistance, moved on to raw beginners.But it was the fact that my lessons were being undermined by a student... ugh. While I myself am still a student in some regards, and still do squeeze my lessons in when I can (When needed) but mostly teach myself at this point (I only need to learn double tonguing which we finally figured out what was impeding me with that so I am finally learning it. Should have been an earlier lesson but... my original fife teacher didn't know what she was doing and i believe purposely skipped the lesson because she didn't like double tonguing herself). Learning is a life long lesson.
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Brian, I personally have not played the game, but, having some experience with a regular play station and racing games, and having beat the first game which I at one time owned, is it possible for you to adjust the sensitivity of the controls? If so, that might help a whole helluvalot.
The Dukes are racist??
in Hazzard Swamp
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Very true, but I always seen that in connection to the word mob, and I think I did catch it once or twice where it was done by the law... hmm...
Either way, I apologize and retract the statement and would like to substitute it with:
Anyone who abuses a historical symbol needs a verbal tear down with facts so bad that they go home and cry into their pillows.