RogerDuke

No trouble here.

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I think the SpaceX launch was delayed until Saturday. No astronomy last night. It was cloudy. I just finished The Men Who Built America series on the History Channel. It's raining pretty hard so I guess a Dukes epiode is on the agenda today. I'm watching Dual Survival right now.

leather

I've been up all night doing astronomy two nights in a row now. I've pulled overnighters before but never two in a row. I love retirement!

You got Jesse Duke here WOLFMAN. It's good to hear from you.

Good to have you here iansbolton. We look forward to hearing more from you.

You both are right about Luke in the jump. I suspect the writers were just trying to re-establish family unity. It was odd that everybody supported the jump now but didn't support it before. Nothing has really changed because if you think about it, when they didn't support it before they didn't know about the cut fuel lines. Why would Luke riding along change their minds? That should have made it worse since now 2 Dukes could have been killed. Maybe they knew Dukes can't get killed on their show.

gravity

There's another episode where the odometer says the same so it must be broke. I bet they put about 20,000 on a year. Town was at least 18 miles from the farm.

We usually agree Hobie but I wouldn't call Carnival of Thrills goofy. I also will honestly say I'm not all that crazy about it. I was flustered when it came out originally because they ended the first show with that fist fight and I had to wait a week to see the rest. I hated the fight. Even Waylon said "Duke hadn't fought Duke since the war between the States." I was never really crazy about any episode where the Dukes struggled with family unity....Dr Jeckel and Mr Duke was the worst.

frisbees

battered! Now that's clever....and funny!

Carnival of Thrills.....season 3 Bob Dexter crashes in Cedar City while trying a 32 car jump called the Leap for Life in Diane Benson's Carnival of Thrills stunt show that she inherited from her father. The show comes to Hazzard and Diane, with her shady assistant and announcer Carl by her side, signs a paper with Boss stating that Boss gets the Carnival if she can't afford to pay him rental after the show. After running a local race to check out the talent Diane hires Bo to make the Leap for Life in Hazzard (flirting and challenging his pride helped). The other three Dukes, Cooter, Enos, even Waylon (see below) all think it is too dangerous and that causes problems between them and Bo. It even got so bad that Bo and Luke ended up in a fist fight at the end of the first part of the 2 part episode. Bo moved out of the farm. With the help of an insurance investigator the other 3 Dukes find out that Bob Dexter's car, and the ones before that had been tampered with so they would fail. They race to the Carnival just in time to save Bo and find out that jealous Carl was behind it all. Despite admitting that she was just using Bo he decides to make the jump with Luke as his wing man and the Carnival is saved and poor Boss doesn't get it. -- After Bo decided to jump anyways Daisy said "Ain't that beautiful?" Jesse responded "Yea....it's stupid....but it's beautiful" -- even Waylon thought Bo was crazy with this quote "Back in Hazzard Bo thought he was in heaven. And that's exactly where he might be ending up in a few more hours" -- We see the General's odometer...32047.6 miles...neat coincidence since the license plate is CNH 320 -- One of the best scenes in the series is where Jesse makes Daisy stop the Jeep and challenges Luke to a fist fight. -- To start the show all 4 Dukes were in the General heading to Cedar City. When Bo was driving rough Jesse wondered why they even needed to see a stunt show....lol -- auto spell check changes fist fight to fish fight....come to think of it a fish fight would be funny

maple syrup

Now that's a good question.

It was clear last night....rare around here lately....so I was out until 2am with my telescope, mostly looking at galaxies in the Virgo Cluster so didn't watch any TV so thanks for the updates.

Southern Comfurts....season 2 -- The good news is this is the last episode on my bad disc. The bad news is that it is the worst one. It's odd because I thought this one was fine earlier. If anybody gets a chance to check it out maybe you could comment. I only got to see the first 20 minutes. -- Jesse's second cousin twice removed, Holly Comfurt and her two kids Lori and John Henry sell their farm for a quarter million dollars. Boss meets her at the Duke farm and starts scheming to sell her some land as an investment but it is really worthless swamp land. Holly showers the Dukes with gifts and is planning on buying a rooming house in Savannah. Their Rolls Royce breaks down and while it is at Cooter's he lends them a car. Lori puts a suitcase in the trunk but when they walked away a drunk stole the car. Since Holly doesn't trust banks she had left the quarter million in the suitcase.......and eventually the Dukes save the day -- When Bo and Luke looked under the hood of the Rolls Bo said "Uh, it ain't American" -- When Jesse was negotiating the land deal and the guy said a quarter million dollars, Jesse passed out (thankfully he was already squatting low). It was pretty funny to see his feet sticking in the air! --season 3 next....Carnival of Thrills!

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RIP Henry Flatt.....season 2 Henry Flatt faked his death a year ago because he scammed Boss out of $20,000....which Henry donated to the Capitol City Youth Center. Of course Boss was seeking revenge but Henry figured he'd forget about it if he thought he was dead. Construction workers were making a road and it was supposed to run through the cemetery and by law the bodies had to be checked before being reburied so Henry was worried that all they would find would be bricks in his. Also, Boss wanted to put a housing development in the area. The Dukes found Henry alive and also found out about Boss's greedy plan. They teamed up with Henry, his daughter Gail and an corpse that Henry stole with the intent to pass off as his own body. After playing musical vehicles with the stolen coffin for awhile the Dukes and Henry end up burying the body in the cemetary and due to a technicality Boss couldn't legally dig it up which ruined his plans. It turned out that the stolen corpse was really a veteran and the folks of Hazzard gave him a fitting military funeral since he had no loved ones. Boss never did find out Henry is still alive. --I did miss part of this because of the bad disc but not as much as I thought I would. -- I loved the scene with Jesse riding Maudeen the Mule while talking on a walkie talkie....Jesse that is...Maudeen still hasn't figured out how to use one. --Denver Pyle directed this one. It was a great episode To watch on Memorial Day weekend.

That's why Meadowmufn started the HazzardNet!

sweet.... ( I love that smell...it reminds me of my truck driving days in the USMC Reserves)

diesel.......(as in Vin)

Love the pictures Hoss. Thanks for posting them!