RogerDuke

Thanks for posting this Spike. I read it twice and it's very interesting. I'd love to own a door from a General Lee.

WOW! I thought she had a familiar look! Thanks Hoss!

wallet.....(I love it when Jane grabs the wallet in the opening song)

Treasure of Hazzard....season 2 -- Rosco is away for more training so Lester "Orders is orders" Crabb is in this one. An attractive female professor shows up with proof that a union army paybox from 1862 is buried in Hazzard but a nasty older couple shows up too with plans to steal it. They even go so far as ruiining a bridge in the opening scene. Lester told the professor that the Dukes are the only descendants of Hazzard's original settlers so she goes there and Jesse figured out where the paybox might be. The Dukes take her into a swamp to find a map marker where they meet Jeb McCobb, his twin grandaughters and a bunch of gators. They eventually find the paybox but the nasty couple take it at gunpoint. After getting it back the professor agrees with Boss that he can have the money but she's keeping anything else that is in it. She ends up getting a signed letter from Abraham Lincoln and Boss ends with a couple stacks of worthless Confederate money. -- In reality those Confederate bills are worth a lot for their historical value. Waylon explains that things were mixed up in Hazzard even back then. Why would the union pay its army in Confederate money? -- Boss and Lester tore up the Boar's Nest floor because the Dukes tricked them into believing the treasure was buried there by using a fake map. It was also funny when Lester was not paying attention and throwing dirt on Boss and in his car. -- I loved it when Jesse read in the Duke Bible about Caleb Duke coming to Hazzard in the mid 1700s. We learn more about that in season 7. -- When the professor fell in the water and Bo jumped in and wrestled a gator to save her she got back in the boat and said she'd never been so scared in her life. Luke responded " I don't blame you. After that cute little critter in the water it must have been plum frightening to run into Bo here."

95% of the stuff that's on TV today is garbage so we're kinda forced to go back to the older days.

cave

Just an hour left of Uncle Jesse's 100th birthday. He really does feel like family. I was thinking of him all day. Good night Jesse.

Follow That Still.....season 2 -- To open the show ATF Agent Buchanan is about to arrest Hard Luck Jones for a still but the boys use their dynamite arrows to blow it up. "What evidence?" asks Hard Luck! Right away we can tell this is going to be a great episode. Hard Luck tells Jesse he won't do it again....sort of....he amen'ed it. Waylon says "Now how ya gonna say no to Uncle Jesse?" Boss brings in a 30 year old APC (armored personnel carrier) as a war memorial but is really planning on using it for contraband cigarettes. Hard Luck steals it to use for a mobile still. Rosco thinks Luke stole it since he was talking about having one in the Marines. The boys find it but Hard Luck isn't there and Rosco shows up. They get away but the APC breaks down on Duke property. Hard Luck finds it, then Jesse. Luke, Daisy and LB drive around in bulldozers to mimic APC tracks to throw off the law. Bo gets the APC running again and Daisy and Luke jump in on the fly. Thanks to Daisy's sharpshootong....who knew she could fire a big APC gun?....the day is saved.....after the Boar's Nest gets a little scuffed. Agent Buchanan gets Hard Luck a job at a legal distillery which "wasn't much fun but everybody has to grow up sometime" - Waylon --One of my favorite episodes....top 10...maybe top 5. I loved it when Jesse and Hard Luck were talking inside the APC. They made the shine for each others weddings. -- Being a Marine myself I liked hearing about Luke being one too. Hard Luck said the Marines are a lot like moonshiners....the few, the proud....and neither of them don't stay in one place too long. --A couple classic scenes....Rosco falling into a big mud puddle on a bicycle and his car getting crushed by the APC. And a classic Rosco line "Freeze Tank!" -- Boss eating raw liver. It's been a few eps since we've seen that. --Hard Luck said his shine is "smoother than honey with twice the sting of a bee" -- Great episode on this special day. May 11, 2020.....100 years since Denver Pyle was born.

Thanks Hoss but the next post was really the tribute. My internet has been shutting off so I didn't want to type too much and lose it all.

I don't usually think of the actor I mentioned in my last post. I usually think of Jesse Duke, lifelong farmer who still lives in Hazzard County and still has nephews who are driving him crazy. I like to imagine I live just down the road and go to the farm to help and after a hard day's work eat supper and sit around on the porch before sunset with Jesse while the boys are chasing women and Daisy is working at the Boar's Nest. Despite the fact that Jesse is different than me he has still been a great mentor for over 40 years. I am now Denver's age in season 2 and every day strive to be take the good parts of who he was and mirror them. Sure he could be a little rough at times but deep inside was a man who did his best to follow the Good Book, was always loyal to family and community and loved the land. It was always funny to hear him say "I ain't your Uncle Jesse" and I always wanted to hear him tell me "I am your Uncle Jesse". Even though I never met him and I'll never hear those words I know I would have gotten along great with him if we would have been neighbors and in my mind we are neighbors. Visiting Uncle Jesse is what I do in my mind when things get tough. He just has a way of making everything better. I love you Jesse. And I love you Denver. This 'ol world has been a better place the last 100 years because of you.

100 years ago today in Bethune Colorado, Ben and Maude Pyle had a little bundle of joy and named him Denver Dell Pyle. He did a lot of acting before he became known as Uncle Jesse Duke. He was Briscoe Darling on Andy Griffith, Mad Jack on Grizzly Adams, he was on the Doris Day show and a ton of other stuff. He really loved the oil industry and did a lot of investing in it. By the time Dukes hit its peak he had actually made more money in the oil industry than in his over 3 decades of acting. He said he wanted to continue acting to fund his oil investments and simply because it was so much fun. He had two boys with his wife Marilee who he married in 1955 and divorced in 1970....David in 1956 and Tony in 1957. He later married Tippie Johnston in 1983 while Dukes was still being filmed and they were still together when he died on Christmas Day in 1997 at 77 years old. He is buried in Forreston Texas.

My internet keeps popping out. We've never had trouble before. Our internet is tied in with satellite TV and now that the trees have leaves ( and have gotten taller) and it's windy that might be the problem. I'll try this later.

Not really but that scene was pretty memorable.....and he didn't even need a spike to tear it apart like that sissy Spike Loomis. He did it with his bare hands.

Not just them but all small consumer based businesses. Just because a place is open doesn't mean the customers will show up. A lot of people will because they are just itching to get out but a lot won't because they'll wait to see if this reinfection thing will be bad.

charity (Jerry Lewis telethon)

I watched CHIPs when it was out but don't really remember many details of it. I do remember one scene where a guy (it might have been Rosie Greer) tore apart a car with his bare hands. As I recall the car wasn't much bigger than him.

Tomorrow is the big day. I'll be posting a little tribute to Jesse here.

Did Don Stroud walk with a limp on CHIPs? (I hit "like" but it said I can't do anymore. I wonder why there's a daily limit?)

Top Gun......("I feel the need...the need for Speed"....wagon)

Wow! That is interesting. Thanks. That car has some of the longest doors I have ever seen.

tough guy

Christmas

Your profile says that you joined in 2006 and this is your second post so you're right about that. Hoss has me beat. I don't know which episodes the other two are from but I'm suspecting Mason Dixon's Girls on the one on the left. It must be cool to have a General Lee that is actually from 1969. We look forward to hearing more from you.

Thanks for the comments Spike. What did you think of The Runaway? Follow that Still is next....one of my all time favorites.

cash ........(Johnny Cash...a boy named Sue)