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I kayaked 3 days in a row but the streak will end today....Too many things to catch up on around the house. I have another kayak trip planned tomorrow. No rain forcast for the next few days. Covid numbers back on the rise. Baseball is still scheduled for the end of July but I'm really starting to doubt It.

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I went out of my way to look for it this time but they made no mention of any kind. I think the writers dropped the ball on this one.

You've had such a run of bad luck Spike.....it can only mean one thing....you are due for a really LONG run of good luck.

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Thanks Spike...didn't see any of it. After the delay I couldn't find it on Dish Network.

Wow! Even Golden Girls is no longer safe. It's no more forgive and forget. Tear down George Waahington statues, dynamite Mount Rushmore, defund police, create your own nation in the middle of a city. John Wayne went from being a good guy to a bad guy. Our Dukes were censored and now the Duke is next. What is happening here?!

The Return of Hughie Hogg....season 3 In the opening scene Daisy is riding a horse and Hughie comes along on a fire truck and runs the siren, spooking the horse. The Duke boys save her when the uncontrollable horse runs off. When Hughie donates the fire truck he challenges the boys to join the department and they do. While they are at a false alarm Hughie plants moonshine at the farm and later Rosco and Cletus go to the farm to arrest them but they get away only to later be caught by Hughie's henchman. Hughie hired a fake IRS man to tell Boss he was going to be audited so Boss puts everything he owns in Hughie's name to hide his assets. After Boss realizes he's been tricked he tries to convince Hughie to change his mind but he won't. The Dukes, Boss, Rosco, Cletus and Lulu's sister Hortense team up against Hughie. When Daisy lures Hughie away they break into the newly fortified Boar's Nest and take the safe that has the papers certifying Boss gave his stuff to Hughie. After a chase Boss tore the papers up and kicked Hughie out forever or "until I need him" -- They never mentioned Rosco but if Hortense was Lulu's sister she would be Rosco's sister too.....unless they were half-siblings. -- One of the henchman called Cooter "Mr Goodwrench" LOL. That was something started by General Motors in 1977. Funny thing is...the show had way more Mopars and Fords. -- The opening scene is in daytime and we see a rare sight....all 4 of the General's headlights.

Good to see ya back again!

Sorry to hear about your double dose of bad news Spike. I wish I could help. Watch two Dukes episodes and call me in the morning.

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By-Line Daisy Duke.....season 3 On their way to go fishing in Cotton Lake the General Lee ends up in a pond after being run off the road by thieves driving a truck with a stolen tractor in the back. Daisy got a part time job as a reporter with the Hazzard County Gazette and her boss sends her to investigate the rash of tractor thefts in the county. Boss is behind the thefts and the 2 guys in the truck were thieves he hired. He then gets an idea to frame Bo and Luke for the thefts and has the truck with a stolen tractor in it planted at the Duke farm. When the boys are driving it away, Daisy (not knowing it was them) shot out their tire with an arrow and, with her editor watching, took a picture of them getting arrested. Her editor said they wouldn't print it if they could prove the Dukes were innocent before press time. The boys figure out Boss is in it with the tractor thieves and catch them after a lot of shucking and jiving. --Boss made himself the beneficiary of his own life insurance policy! -- The truck the thieves used is the same one that had the stolen Christmas trees in The Great Santa Claus Chase -- I love Jesse's line, "as low as a snake's belly in a wagon rut". It gets used a few other times. -- When Daisy's editor tells her she might even get a by-line for this story she responds "If it's all the same to you, I could use the cash" -- Dottie West sings "Jesse James" and wonders why Boss didn't charge to get in. When he says he's charging ten dollars to get out Waylon has one of my all-time favorite lines "Aint' it nice to know that there's a place in this 'ole world where things never change?"

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Along Came a Duke.....season 3 Even though Stonewall Jackson had never set foot in Hazzard Boss had an annual day to celebrate him where everybody dresses up in Confederate uniforms. Boss was having Jackson's real sword shipped in from the Atlanta museum. It was valued at $100,000 but Boss was planning on stealing it and selling it to Beauregard Mason for $25,000. The General had radiator problems out in the country and the boys saw 2 bad guys beating up the museum curator and saved him. Later he told Boss to hire the boys to deliver the sword since they had proven they were trustworthy because they brought back his wallet that they found on the ground after the tussle. In the morning the boys went to Atlanta and picked up the sword and the 2 bad guys tried to take it at gunpoint until Jeb Stuart Duke from Placid County swooped in with his dirt bike to save them. When Luke brought the sword to Boss he switched it with a fake one and threw the boys in jail on charges they stole it. Jeb broke the boys out then pretended to be Mason's son and tried to pick the sword up from Boss. The 2 bad guys (who were mad at Boss for not paying them) came in and stole the sword. The General and Jeb on his dirt bike caught them and made their getaway car crash and recovered the historic sword. -- A chase surprisingly goes through the grounds of Hazzard High School during track and field and cheerleader practice. --Rosco's failed attempt to hood slide turned into a pretty impressive hood somersault. --It was pretty funny when Rosco accidently turned on the mechanical bull Boss was sitting on. Rosco had just got done teasing Boss that his great- grandaddy Lighthorse Harry Hogg was a coward. Also, while sitting on the bull Boss asked "How do I look Rosco, like a regular urban cowboy?" Rosco responded "No Boss, you look like a regular urban fatboy."

I'm embarresed to say I don't know that show. All we had growing up was NBC so it must not have been on that. When I was 19 and Dukes came out on CBS I watched it at my grandparents a couple houses down the road. They could afford a better antenna. Did that show have any jumps or chases?

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Thanks MM. The key word is fun. Besides, our Supreme Superior Commander (namely you) has been known to cuff and stuff folks who dive too deeply into things that take away from the fun of other folks. A night in the HazzardNet jail is no picnic. I hear for punishment that you make folks watch old reruns of Gilligan's Island, Little House on the Praire and other shows where they filmed for years and never had a single car chase.

If that's not a return to fun I dont know what is!

To Catch a Duke.....season 3 While the Duke boys are heading to Barm Lake to fish a man and woman jewelry robbery duo pull into Cooter's with a bad fan belt and $200,000 in stolen jewelry. Rosco tickets the robbers for osculatting (kissing) in public so the lady dropped the jewels in a flower bed before going into the courthouse to pay the fine. While Flash was picking up the jewery bag a call came in on the radio and Boss and Rosco found out the kissers were the robbers. The robbers then carjacked the boys and General Lee for a quick short getaway. When Flash gave Rosco the jewels Boss concluded that Rosco was in on the heist along with the Dukes and the real thieves. Boss fired Rosco and gave him a 30 second trial and made Cletus the new Sheriff. Later, while the robber duo were taking the jewels at gunpoint at the Boar's Nest, the Dukes disabled their car so they then carjacked Rosco, with Rosco acting as unwilling getaway driver. The General caught them with a little help from Rosco and then Rosco brought the jewels to Boss but he wouldn't give him his job back. The boys convinced the robbers to confess on the CB to the whole town when they scared them enough in the back seat during a General Lee thrill ride....admitting they had no accomplices. Rosco got his job back. -- This is the only episode Daisy ever missed. Only Jesse and Boss didn't miss any in 7 years. Daisy went to visit Aunt Kate a couple days. --A rare relative mention by Rosco....he has an Aunt Emma and Uncle Wilbur in Nashville --Rosco's new wrist watch plays "Georgia on my Mind"...always nice when they mentioned their season one roots. -- At the end when Jesse complained about the General's welded doors the boys joked....without him hearing....about welding his truck doors.

Check out the cool stuff going on at the Return to Fun thread!

I hope you had a great birthday Spike despite getting beat by your wife in putt putt. For what it's worth, my wife usually beats me too. It was nice to get rain since we've been pretty dry too. Got a lot of rain yesterday and the same so far today. I went kayaking on Lake Erie two days ago and couldn't believe how clear the water was. I've never seen it that clear. You could even see bottom if you went out real far. Maybe it was because we hadn't got a lot of rain to stir things up. The rain will help get creek levels up. When they're too low it's hard to kayak. The nice thing about the dry weather is that there hasn't been many mosquitos here.

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Thanks Hobie. I am a very politically active person. I've had several quotes on CNN (the old Jack Cafferty show) and CNBC, several letters in USA Today, a thousand letters in local newspapers the past 40 years and have also been active politically on other forums but there is a time and place for all that and it's not here....even though I'll agree that those fights need to be fought. As important as politics can be it can also be corrosive in certain settings and I have so much love for Hazzard County, the HazzardNet and the HN Family I would do anything to keep our family together.

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There seems to be a trend here to post stuff that is a little bit edgy. That's no surprise since the world seems to have gone crazy. Since I have been part of the problem I really am not worthy of acting like Uncle Jesse and getting everybody back it line with a gruff authoritarian voice so I won't...... but I will say this: While I may be tempted in the future to post stuff that displays my anger about insane current events I will not anymore. This website is one of my favorite things in the world and I don't want to ruin it by being part of the problem. From this point forward I pledge to return to the fun that the HazzardNet is intended to be. After all, HazzardNet might be the only sane place left in cyberspace. Where would the internet be if it gets tainted and turns crazy too? I hope others join me in my pledge.