RogerDuke

Bo 37 Luke 57 Jesse 6

It's the morning after the big show and I woke up late still in awe of the experience. I left my house at 5:00 yesterday and arrived at Yankee Lake (just north of Youngstown Ohio) around 6:15. Scattered thunderstorms were forecast and right on cue, it started downpouring when I pulled in. I sat in my car for about 15 minutes and then the sun started shining and a beautiful full rainbow appeared right over the spot where Ray Kohn of Northeast Ohio Dukes was sceduled to do his big General Lee jump. I wondered if it would be cancelled because of the car not being able to get good traction in the mud. Or, maybe the rainbow was an omen that Ray would have a safe and awesome jump. I like to call it a Raynbow, Yankee Lake was a blast. There is a hill and bleachers overlooking a valley that was full of mud. It was "Truck Night" and everybody and their redneck brother was down there getting their four wheel drives buried. Needless to say, I immediately felt right at home. Google "Yankee Lake Ohio" to see lots of great videos of muddy trucks. I've never seen so many orange shirts in one place. I'm not sure what the attendance was. Somebody there told me 7,000 but it sure looked like a lot more than that. There must have been 1,000 people with Dukes shirts on. I've never been to a DukesFest but this is the next best thing to it. I didn't know what to expect from this show. I called Ray a month ago and he told me they had some cool stuff planned but it exceeded my wildest expectations. The show played out like an episode. The annonuncer introduced the characters. Ray was Bo Duke. They also had a Luke of course. The Duke boys had a show car for a General Lee and a General that was scheduled to make the jump. Cooter and Daisy drove around in Daisy's white Dixie Jeep. There were three police cars, one was an original looking Fury. Boss Hogg had an original white Boss convertable Caddy that was driven by a chauffer. Boss was played by Ray's brother. My favorite character was Uncle Jesse. He drove a 1973 Ford F-150 just like my hero had. I talked to him for a long tiime before and after the show. He looks and acts so much like Jesse I felt like I was talking to the genuine article. And....he's Ray Kahn's father. This family is as close to the real Dukes as you can get! For sake of length, I won't go into the plot of the episode. The narrator introduced the characters and the fun began. To make a long story short, Boss tried to set the Duke boys up by having Rosco plant moonshine in the General Lee. The stunts were spectatular. I was expecting a big General Lee jump and a couple minor little stunts but what I got was drama, fights, Daisy being kidnapped, several chases, two police car jumps and a hair-raising roll with an explosion and a bad guy stuck in a car on its roof. To make matters more scarry, the car smoked so bad I thought it was going to catch fire. What a spectacular show!! I didn't know it was going to play out like an episode and I was delighted. I felt like I was sitting on top of Eagle Rock in Hazzard County looking down at the adventures of the real Dukes. Talk about getting into the fantasy! Just as the experience started, it ended with a storm. The episode was coming to a close and the wind started to kick up. Then it really started to blow! Trees were waving all over the place and I wondered if the big jump would be cancelled. Lightning was getting close. But, just like a real episode Ray....excuse me, Bo....busted though the road closed sign (that had fallen down in the strong wind) and made a spectacular jump at the end to save the day. Unbelievable! Seconds afterward, it started raining cats and dogs. If they would have tried to make the jump one minute later I doubt they could have pulled it off. You don't get more dramatic than that. I don't want to give Ray too much credit though. His special effects team was great but not good enough to create a thunderstorm and time it perfectly like that. Unbelievably!!! It was a once in a lifetime event for me and I'll never forget it. Well, maybe not once in a lifetime....Uncle Jesse told me there's a show in Painsville (east of Cleveland) next month. I'm not sure what it will be like compared to this one but I gaurantee you I'll be there. We'll post more information on it later. After the show I helped Ray's father load up the F-150 with a couple small items. I felt like I was working on the Duke farm helping Uncle Jesse. It probably didn't seem like a big deal to Mr. Kohn but it was a thrill to me. Now if I can just get the Kohn family to adopt me!

*thinks for a moment* "We're way ahead of the game here so take your time and visit Cooter fer awhile...but you'd better do yer visitin' before you fill pick up the things on that list" *smiles* "elsewise my ice cream will melt" Bo smiles back and starts to walk away before Jesse interrupts "Oh, one more thing...stop by and see Emery Potter. He's got some papers fer me....and don't go peeking in the envelope and reading 'em now. You're not too big fer a whippin'. Well, you are too big fer a whipping. Just don't look 'cause I told you not to."

Thanks Garrett. So if Jeff Gordon finishes first next race and Kevin Harvick has problems and doesn't finish, how many points would Jeff be ahead of him by?

B.L. and texasdaisy got it right. What is Rosco P Coltrane's middle name?

Bo 36 Luke 56 Jesse 8

Rednecks like us always agree with each other.....except when we don't agree.....wouldn't you agree?

I just got home from an amazing experience near Youngstown Ohio. It was a Dukes of Hazzard stunt show that was absolutely unbelievable. Words can't describe how amazing it was but I'll try anyways when I write up a lengthy review of it tomorrow. Once again, thanks to Daney Duke for posting the information regarding this show on the northern DukesFest thread. Without her, I never would have known about it.

This is an awesome idea HossC. It looks like it took a lot of work to make. I have a little problem though. When I click on "attatched thumbnails" nothing happens. I'm not real good with computers. Am I doing something wrong?

"Naw Bo, you know how ornery Maudine can git if anybody but me is behind 'er." *wipes off sweaty forehead again and then reaches in chest pocket of his overalls and hands his nephew a piece of paper* "I'd appreciate it if you'd head into town and pick up these supplies. The money in the tin on top of the refrigerator should cover it. If there's not enough, ferget about the shotgun shells. I'll git those when I sell that firewood."

My other NASCAR source says they weren't going to fine drivers in cases like that. (NASCAR officials made that statement at the beginning of the season) But this incident went too far. If they wouldn't have taken action then things could have gone even farther in the future. They had to draw the line somewhere. By the way Garrett, are you going to start a thread for points standings?

Doggonit! Me and Garrett are agreeing. This thread ain't gonna be fun no more

Bo 35 Luke 54 Jesse 11

Welcome to the HazzardNet seb69. There is no 2010 Dukesfest. These last few posts have not been about dukesfest. Sorry if the title deceived you. There's going to be a General Lee jump tomorrow near Youngstown Ohio. Go back to Daney Duke's post to see details.

Flash had a better sense of what's right and wrong than a lot of humans I know. (Present company excepted of course)

Hazzard County Georgia

So what do you think Garrett, is that an appropriate punishment under the circumstances?

Reality is overrated....then again so are today's NASCAR stars compared to Bo.

Sweet! Thanks for sharing those. I love any old pictures of the stars. We sure got a lot of old pictures of James Best laying around here on the HazzardNet....and I love every one of 'em...Khee Khee!

Bo 36 Luke 53 Jesse 11

Maudine and Jesse were both past their prime. Jesse knew he was but usually acted like he wasn't. Maudine, on the other hand still thought that she could plow all day. She would have run herself into the ground if Jesse wouldn't have stopped to rest her often. After getting one more glance at the hawk, Jesse yelled "Yaw!" Most mules require a little physical encouragement to get started but Maudine knew exactly what the old farmer wanted by the tone of his voice. Jesse's eyes were on the ground focused on keeping a straight line as Bo approached so his nephew got pretty close to him before Jesse realized he was there. He caught him out of the corner of his eye and then looked up. "Naay!" Maudine stopped in her tracks. Jesse smiled at Bo.

It was a hot afternoon in late April. Uncle Jesse was plowing the back 40 with Maudine the Mule because the tractor was broken down. It could of been easily fixed with spare parts laying around the farm but Jesse always found every excuse he could to use Maudine. He stopped her briefly and took the white handkerchief out of his back pocket to wipe the sweat off his old forehead. Maudine scuffed the north Georgia soil with her front left hoof kicking up dust, itching to get started again. Jesse looked up at a red-tailed hawk circling above. The hawk screeched as if he was hoping that Jesse and Maudine would kick up a meal for him. Jesse: All right darling we'll git started again. Don't be gittin' too impatient 'er I'll git Bo to fix that tractor today and you'll be out of a job. Speaking of Bo, I wonder where the heck he is right now.