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And since Rosco couldn't swim, we don't need anything making it harder for him to get safely to shore. Don't want ol' Rosco drowning now.

I was just checking out James Home page http://www.jamesbest.com/ and was reading up on his biography there. He is definatly a man of talent and has worked with some serious acting talent. He has worked with Jimmy Steward, Humphrey Bogart, Audie Murphy, Randolph Scott, Henry Fonda, Jerry Lewis, Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Robert Urich and Carroll O'Conner. "Best formed the first school to teach actors Motion Picture Technique. He taught in Hollywood for Twenty-five years and worked with some of today's more prominent movie personalities and stars. Stars that included, Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Gary Busey, Teri Garr, Lindsay Wagner, Farrah Fawcett, and Quentin Tarantino" (from his bio on his webpage) Wow is all I can say. I have heard on the commentary of "One Armed Bandits" Cathy Bach say How lucky that they were to work with him. From what I have learned about him they are right. He was a talented man to work with. From what I heard on either Inside Edition or one of the shows like that on CMT, he normally was a dramatic actor. That comedy was a new thing for him. Well he did it great. Now he is an accomplished painter and still produces and acts in films. God Bless him! I really would like to see something by his studio Best Friends Films.

If anyone needs a copy of that episode let me know, I have it on the dvr. Just pm me.

Instead she gave her wedding bouquet to BJ and said that she and Bubba should marry. This way they can make thier fighting legal or words to that effect from either Bo or Luke.

If I am to go to Dukesfest this year with my three children, how much should I expect to spend there? I need to try to figure out how much I need to save up and if I can afford to go. I figure that I will proberly drive down. It has to be cheaper than four plane tickets.

I just read in the Dukes of Hazzard TV soundtrack, that Waylon was the narrator in Moonrunners. I wish that I could get my hands on that movie. Unfortunatly due to the fact that I don't have any credit cards I don't think that I can get it off ebay or other online websites. Anyway if it wasn't for Waylon, we wouldn't be here talking about The Dukes because there wouldn't have been any Dukes.

Ok can anyone name all of the country singers that played at the end of The Dukes? Also can anyone name the songs that they sang? I know that there was Lorretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, and the Oakridge Boys. Weren't they on twice? If I am correct I think that it was a big thing for them to play on the show. Thanks

Here is some information that I got from the history channel website about the Civil War. Sorry that this is a really long post/ history lesson. Unfortunatly I couldn't find anything about the Confederate battle flag on the site. It is a flag to ME about independece. The slave holders were a minority. Most of the confederates, like General Robert E. Lee weren't fighting for slavery, they were fighting for thier states rights. HISTORY.COM RESOURCES ENCYCLOPEDIA: CIVIL WAR, AMERICAN, military conflict (1861–65) between the United States of America (the Union) and 11 secessionist Southern states, organized as the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). In the South, the conflict is also known as the War Between the States. Background. The Civil War was the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict and reflected deep-seated economic, social, and political differences between the North and the South. The South, overwhelmingly agricultural, produced cash crops—cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane—for export to the North or to Europe, but it depended on the North for manufactures and for the financial and commercial services essential to trade. Underscoring sectional differences, the labor force in the South included nearly 4 million enslaved blacks. Although the slaveholding planter class formed a small minority of the population, it dominated Southern politics and society. Slaves were the largest single investment in the South, and the fear of slave unrest ensured the loyalty of nonslaveholders to the economic and social system. The sectional controversy. To maintain harmony between the Southern and Northern supporters in the Democratic and Whig parties, political leaders tried to avoid the slavery question. But with growing opposition in the North to the extension of slavery into the new territories, evasion of the issue became increasingly difficult. The MISSOURI COMPROMISE, (q.v.) of 1820 temporarily settled the issue by establishing the 36° 30´ parallel as the line separating free and slave territory in the Louisiana Purchase. Conflict resumed, however, when the U.S. boundaries were extended westward to the Pacific. The COMPROMISE MEASURES OF 1850, (q.v.) provided for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there, permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when they applied for statehood. The shifting balance. Despite the Compromise of 1850, conflict persisted. The South had become a minority section, and its leaders viewed the actions of the U.S. Congress, over which they had lost control, with growing concern. The Northeast demanded for its industrial growth a protective tariff, federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements, and a sound banking and currency system. The Northwest looked to Congress for free homesteads and federal aid for its roads and waterways. The South, however, regarded such measures as discriminatory, favoring Northern commercial interests, and it found the rise of antislavery agitation in the North intolerable. Many free states, for example, passed personal liberty laws in an effort to frustrate enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act (see FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS,). The increasing frequency with which “free soilers,†politicians who argued that no more slave states should be admitted to the Union (see FREE-SOIL PARTY,), won elective office in the North also worried Southerners. The issue of slavery expansion erupted again in 1854, when Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed through Congress a bill establishing two new territories—Kansas and Nebraska—and applying to both the principle of popular sovereignty. The KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (q.v.), by voiding the Missouri Compromise, produced a wave of protest in the North, including the organization of the Republican party. Opposing any further expansion of slavery, the new party became so strong in the North by 1856 that it nearly elected its candidate, John C. Frémont, to the presidency. Meanwhile, in the contest for control of Kansas, Democratic President James Buchanan asked Congress to admit Kansas to the Union as a slave state, a proposal that outraged Northerners. Adding to their anger, the U.S. Supreme Court, on March 7, 1857, ruled in the DRED SCOTT CASE, (q.v.) that the U.S. Constitution gave Congress no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. Two years later, on Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown, an uncompromising opponent of slavery, raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. (now West Virginia), in an attempt to promote a general slave uprising. That raid, along with Northern condemnation of the Dred Scott decision, helped to convince Southerners of their growing insecurity within the Union. The secession crisis. In the presidential election of 1860, a split in Democratic party ranks resulted in the nomination by the Southern wing of John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky and the nomination by the Northern wing of Stephen Douglas. The newly formed CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY, (q.v.), reflecting the compromise sentiment still strong in the border states, nominated John Bell of Tennessee. The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln on a platform that opposed the further expansion of slavery and endorsed a protective tariff, federal subsidies for internal improvements, and a homestead act. The Democratic split virtually assured Lincoln’s election, and this in turn convinced the South to make a bid for independence rather than face political encirclement. By March 1861, when Lincoln was inaugurated, seven states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—had adopted ordinances of secession, and the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, (q.v.), with Jefferson Davis as president, had been formed. In his inaugural address, Lincoln held that secession was illegal and stated that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. On April 12, 1861, when an attempt was made to resupply Fort Sumter, a federal installation in the harbor at Charleston, S.C., Southern artillery opened fire. Three days later, Lincoln called for troops to put down the rebellion. In response, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee also joined the Confederacy. Resources of North and South. Neither the North nor the South was prepared in 1861 to wage a war. With a population of 22 million, the North had a greater military potential. The South had a population of 9 million, but of that number, nearly 4 million were enslaved blacks whose loyalty to the Confederate cause was always in doubt. Although they initially relied on volunteers, necessity eventually forced both sides to resort to a military draft to raise an army. Before the war ended, the South had enlisted about 900,000 white males, and the Union had enrolled about 2 million men (including 186,000 blacks), nearly half of them toward the end of the war. In addition, the North possessed clear material advantages—in money and credit, factories, food production, mineral resources, and transport—that proved decisive. The South’s ability to fight was hampered by chronic shortages of food, clothing, medicine, and heavy artillery, as well as by war weariness and the unpredictability of its black labor force. Even with its superior manpower and resources, however, the North did not achieve the quick victory it had expected. To raise, train, and equip a massive fighting force from inexperienced volunteers and to find efficient military leadership proved a formidable and time-consuming task. The South, with its stronger military tradition, had more men experienced in the use of arms and produced an able corps of officers, including Robert E. Lee. Only through trial and error did Lincoln find comparable military leaders, such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman ...... The End of Slavery. At the outset of the war, Lincoln and Congress made it clear that their sole objective was to maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union. Conscious of the need to retain the loyalty of the border slave states, the president exercised caution in dealing with the slavery issue, but he could not avoid it. Not only were slaves fleeing to the Union lines and claiming their freedom, but slave labor was of critical value to the Confederate war effort. Moreover, freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union army; by the end of the war some 186,000 black men, most of them recruited or conscripted in the slave states, had served on the Union side. On Aug. 6, 1861, Congress passed the Confiscation Bill, which ordered the seizure of all property, including slaves, used “in aid of the rebellion.†Nevertheless, the legal status of such slaves was left uncertain, and federal policy vacillated during the first 18 months of the war. The preliminary proclamation of emancipation, issued by Lincoln in September 1862, stipulated that on Jan. 1, 1863, in those states or portions of states that were still engaged in rebellion, the slaves would be “forever free.†Despite the reprieve granted the South, Lincoln thought it unlikely that the Confederate states would choose to return to the Union. Nevertheless, partly to appease a skeptical Northern public, Lincoln had made it clear that preserving the Union, not abolishing slavery, remained his principal objective. When he later issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln defended it on the grounds of military necessity; emancipation would, he declared, weaken the productive forces of the Confederacy and thus hasten the end of the war. Tennessee and the loyal border slave states were excluded from the proclamation, as were designated portions of Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia. (The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the U.S., was ratified in December 1865.) When much of Tennessee, Louisiana, and North Carolina had fallen to Union armies, Lincoln appointed military governors to bring those states back into the Union. On Dec. 8, 1863, the president issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Except for high military and civil officers of the Confederacy or its states, all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the Constitution and swore to obey the wartime legislation and proclamations regarding slavery would be granted amnesty. As soon as 10 percent of a state’s 1860 electorate had complied with these provisions, that state could write a new constitution, elect new state officers, and send members to Congress. This plan became the basis of presidential RECONSTRUCTION, (q.v.), bringing Lincoln into sharp conflict with Republicans in Congress who demanded protection for the freed slaves and a more thorough reconstruction.

Here is a Waylon quote from Cletus falls in Love" Waylon talking about Cletus being in love with Daisy. "That boy is higher than a Georgia Pine"

Here are some of my favorite lines from "Cletus Falls in Love" Daisy to Bo after getting boxed in between Cletus and a farmers flatbed full of hay. Daisy: "Cletus has us boxed in" Bo: "Well this is down right embarassing." Boss after talking to the new state probation officer on the phone: "Son of a revenuer" Boss to Rosco when trying to figure out how to frame the Dukes. "Save your brains for a rainy day, Rosco" Rosco after Boss came up with away to get the Dukes boys "out of his hair forever" "Right out of your--hair. but you don't have to much." (I always love it when Rosco takes a pot shot at Boss" Waylon about Cletus being in love with Daisy: "That boy was higher than a Georgia Pine." Rosco to Flash just as he thinks he has the Dukes framed: I know it's difficult, but try to look alive" I love that one. Boss to Rosco after a failed attempt to frame the Dukes "Your about as useless as an umbrella to a -- duck." Boss stressed the word duck. Rosco to the Dukes in jail: "Sleep tight and don't let the crawdads bite." And finally Rosco to Flash as she is eating the check that Boss changed from $11 to $1,100: "I order your teeth to pull over."

Here are some of my favorite Boss Lines from "Cletus Falls in Love" "Son of a revenuer" (I love that one) "Save your brains for a rainy day, Rosco" and Boss to Rosco "Your about as useless as an umbrella to a duck" Boss stressed the word duck

And another one I just remembered: You know your watching too much Dukes when your real giggle has turned into Rosco's Guh-guh. Seriously my 11 yr old son, when you tickle his sides and belly, his major ticklish spots he sounds just like Rosco! Makes you just want to tickle him all the time!

You go to the Dodge dealership webpage looking for an Orange Charger and get mad that they don't have one! Then wondering if you can order one in orange.

There is a Dodge dealership that I pass at least twice aweek, going to and from, that has an Orange Charger on its roof. I love to pass by it and just wish that it had the rebel flag and the 01 on the door. I just dream that it is the General Lee everytime I pass it. I have almost gotten into an accident looking at it rather than the road. You know you have watched to much Dukes when (and I have) -You dress your 8 yr old daughter as Daisy Duke for Halloween with out buying it at the local Target. -You let your kids climb in and out of your '88 Corsica passenger windows. (drivers window is broken) -You don't care that your 11 yr old son hood slides across the car. In fact you are proud when he does a good hood slide. ' _-You pull your son in the car window as you are driving ( ok it was in a parking garage and we were going slow and there were no other cars) -You buy your 9 yr old daughter a Dukes of Hazzard shirt even though it is like five sizes to big. (she weres a child med to large and it was an adult med) -You tell your kids all you want for your birthday is season 4 and 5 of the DOH. - You are trying to figure if you can afford to go to Dukefest this year and will the non-Duke liking 14 (shame shame everyone knows his name) yr old go with you.

"ol' Boss was as lonely as ol Waylon on the night of the Country Music Association awards" I have to agree with Iloveluke6 that this is one of his best ones. I love how he makes fun of himself.

That must be why the yellow car looked familar to me. Thanks.

Is a Roadrunner the same type of car that Daisy had in the first two seasons?

Two of my favorite Rosco lines are: "There's a flaw in the slaw" and "Shame, shame, everyone knows your name."

"If it weren't for bad luck the Dukes wouldn't have any luck" "Duke luck" "If it were raining soup the Dukes would have thier bowl upside down" or something like that and also didn't he say something along the lines of "When you couldn't hit the ground with your hat." I also loved how he refered to ponds and puddles as the Hazzard Car Wash. Waylon had some great lines.

I agree that the Carnival of Thrills the second season opening episode was one of Bo's best episodes. This episode showed Bo and Luke each growing up a little. I agree with Brian Coltrane "This 2-hr episode gave us a unique chance to see an emotional range and depth to Bo's psyche. We saw his pride, vanity, ambition, selfishness, courage, lust, anger, grief, love, fear. "

I was just watching Good-bye General Lee again last night and was wondering what type of car the yellow car was. Was that another Dodge Charger? I don't know alot about cars. Thanks

Is there anyway for me to get a copy of that soundtrack. I downloaded the songs onto the computer but I am (actually my 14 yr old son is) unable to burn a cd for my 9 year old Daisy wanna be daughter. She also loves the '97 Reunion movie theme song. I love that she loves the Dukes. I got her a General Lee 01 adult Meduim (like 10 sizes to big) t-shirt for Christmas, along with a Matchbox General Lee, Daisy's yellow car, and Rosco's car.

Well he is the youngest cousin. He is ruled by his emotions, wants to get out there and fix the wrong, have the fun. He definatly leaps before looking, which is fine by me. Luke was there always to bail him out of trouble, and Uncle Jesse was there to bail them out of jail!

But why would his co-star Cathy Bach say that his birthday was on Dec 25th. Could IMB and them all be wrong?

Well tonights the night. Let's hope that the email campaign worked. He is the reason that I started to watch the show and why I now own all four seasons of Smallville.