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Duke vs Duke.....season 3 With a $200 entry fee Bo and Luke enter the General in the first annual JD Hogg's Hazzard Derby. Cooter entered his #76 car with a Cale Yarborough engine that he just put in. The engine cost him $3,000 but if he wins he has a buyer for $10,000. He took out a second mortgage so he really needs to win. Neither of them read the fine print (Boss needed a magnifying glass to read it) that said they forfeit their car to Boss if they don't win. Boss called bookie Ma Harper and her 3 boys to place a $5000 bet on Rosco to win because he had a nitrous oxide system installed. He later increased the bet to $10,000. Cooter twisted his ankle helping the Dukes fix a flat and couldn't drive with the cast so Jesse told Luke to drive his car for him....yep, vs Bo. Luke and Bo start bickering but make up after teaming up to stop the Harper boys from damaging the General. Ma Harper stole Cooter's #76 but the boys got it back in time for the race. Bo and Luke tied when Rosco turned his nitro on and knocked both disabled cars across the finish line. -- We see a lot of Al Wyatt Junior who plays Junior Harper -- Cooter gave Boss two 100 dollar bills and commented on how much Boss looks like Ben Franklin -- Rosco wanted more than 50% of 50% if he won so Boss said he'd give him 50% of 50% of 50%. Rosco loved that!

(hey Hobie, was it you who was looking for the outhouse that gets ran over with the farmer getting out just in time? There's a scene like that in the race at the end of Duke vs Duke)

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The Legacy.....season 3 After rescuing a lady in a red convertible who's brakes went out coming down a mountain, the 3 Duke men find out that it is Uncle Jesse's first girlfriend, Lucinda Meadows. He had been in competition with Boss over her but she ended up marrying Cyrus Meadows instead. In the next scene Boss made Cletus temporary Sheriff and Wilbur Fudge temporary Deputy since Rosco and Flash were at obedience training, to which Cletus responded to Boss "But Rosco doesn't need obedience training. He comes whenever you call". Lucinda shows Boss an IOU from June 4, 1940 that proves Boss owes Cyrus ( and her) 5000 dollars but of course he says he's not giving it to her. When Lucinda and the Dukes figure out that Cyrus hid 9 barrels of moonshine In the Rainbow Mine under their property they figure out it's worthless because Cyrus was a bad moonshiner. Lucinda then takes a sample of Jesse's shine to Boss and offers to sell him 9 barrels of it. Thinking she really did have that much good shine Boss made a deal with Mean Joe Hatcher. Cletus put a tracking device in Jesse's truck so they caught the Duke boys right after they loaded the 9 barrels but Hatcher stole it. The evidence got destroyed when Hatcher and his partner dumped it to keep from getting caught.....which didn't work since they got caught. -- I wish we would have seen Lucinda in a future episode. I loved it when she was sitting with Jesse on the front porch under a full moon. -- This was the second episode in a row where Luke pushed Boss over to save his life. This time Hatcher was going to run him over. --Jesse mentions his wife Martha...also known as Lavinia in another episode. Maybe one was a middle name or nickname. --classic scene where a patrol car gets sawed down the middle in the sawmill. Wilbur "did you hear a funny noise?" -- When Cletus asked for a sip of shine to toast the old days Boss said "Cletus, you weren't around in the old days and I ain't too pleased to have you around in the new days neither" --My favorite line in the whole series is by Lucinda "Well, I put myself in the hands of the Lord and He put me in the hands of the Dukes and I guess maybe you couldn't get a better combination than that" --One of my favorite episodes!

I just got done watching one of the 3 celebrity Family Feuds the Dukes were on. My wife got it on You Tube. The Dukes beat the Walton's and won for Special Olympics after Daisy got 192 points and Luke easily finished the job. Also on the team were Jesse, Rosco and Boss. Sorrell's normal voice sounded so unusual. They also played against the cast of a show called Angie. In another one, no top level actors played. They were going up against The Jefferson's and had Cletus, Lulu, Hughie, Mabel Tillingham and Jeb Stuart Duke. When Jeb explained that he was a new Duke Richard Dawson asked him how long he's been on the show and he said "one week".

ROFL.....hey, if you can name a car you can name a suitcase......says the guy who never claimed to be a professional writer....I'm still ROFL

State of the County.....season 3 Daisy picks up a handsome hitchiker from Texas with a real heavy suitcase named Earl Beckett and convinces Cooter to give him a part time job and let him stay in the upstairs of Cooter's garage. Boss JW Hickman of Claredge County and his henchman come to Hazzard with an annual offer to buy all Boss's crooked businesses....or else. When Boss refuses, Hickman's hired man Earl sets a bomb off in the Boar's Nest. Thankfully nobody got hurt. Then Earl set a bomb off in a van and Rosco threw the Duke boys in jail for it and they start to suspect it's Earl and tell Daisy. She gets pretty mad but then goes to Earl's place and finds guns and bombs but he catches her. The Dukes get out of jail and Daisy yells that there is a bomb in the gazebo where Boss is about to give his State of the County speech. Luke saves Boss and Rosco just before it explodes. Earl kidnaps Daisy and heads out of town but she outwits him and captures him with the boys coming in to finish the job. Earl, Hickman and his henchman all wind up in the Hazzard Jail. The Oak Ridge Boys got caught by Rosco doing 36 in a 35mph zone and sing Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight. One of them wanted to know if there was any way they could get through Hazzard without being stopped and Daisy responded "Not as long as you can sing that good, honey"

It's not too often that I find something that eagle eyed Hoss missed.

........although I can think of a lot worse things that it could be

You're right. The worst part is that Daisy is blocking the view of the flag she painted on "Happy Birthday General Lee"

The world has really gone insane and I come to Hazzard County because it is the only sane place left on Earth....which is why I'm going to start making a better effort to stop posting about the insane world and keep my thoughts in Hazzard.

I didn't see anything I havent seen before. I'm going through something called the Messier list, named after a 1700s French comet hunter. It is a list of the best 110 objects in the sky that are outside of the solar system. I've completed the list twice before but decided to do it again just for fun. I've observed 87 of the 110 since Jan 1. The toughest ones to get are the galaxies in the Virgo Cluster but I've already got those. They built a prison 4 miles from me probably 25 years ago so sometimes in that direction I get the same effect you do with the reflection but for me it's only in part of the sky. It really doesn't hurt my astronomy though since I'm not observing when there are clouds.

Right after I typed that response I looked closer. Isn't the passenger side door open? What is that chrome strip on top of it?

LOL The only thing worse than a General without an 01 on the door would be opening the door.

Too cloudy for astronomy. I'll probably have trouble sleeping since I slept most of the day. Maybe it's time to pop an episode in.

It will also be interesting to see how much the flag controversy hurts them the next few weeks. Southern folks are loyal to racing but they are even more loyal to their heritage and get upset when uninformed people think they love their flag because of slavery.

I'm allergic to cats so according to politically correct rules that makes you an intolerant hateful person. Your insensitive shirt also doesn't consider the feelings of dog owners so I'm proposing that it be banned. Anybody who doesn't agree with me is evil. Anybody who think that I'm wrong for labeling those people as evil is evil.

I pulled an all-nighter last night doing astronomy and slept most of the day today. I'm hoping for another all-nighter but some clouds are moving in....pretty thin though so I'm not too worried. I'm watching live Supercross dirt bikes right now. They wrap their season up on Sunday.

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I hope ya had a great birthday yesterday Waylon. It was my grandson's birthday too so I was thinking of ya all day.

Just got back from 3 days in northern Virginia at our daughter's house to celebrate our grandson's birthday. I'm not big on traveling so it's good to be home.

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Thanks for the update Spike!

And after that is the infamous Buttermilk 4.00. I wonder if anybody will make it around the barn all 4 laps this year.

He must be getting sentimental because he just turned 60 two months ago.