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Well, today's Hungarian GP sure didn't turn out like that. A win for Ferrari, and Red Bull filling the other two podium places. Mercedes could only manage sixth and eighth in an incident-packed race.

After Cooter launches the bike through the door, Bo says "Cooter, that ain't no way to treat your bike." Cooter replies "It wasn't mine." Bo says "No.", and then a guy at the pinball machine says "It was mine." as he punches Cooter in the face.

Why would Cooter wear sunglasses with one lens missing, and at night? He ain't dumb, but he is crazy .

I'm no good at identifying bikes, but here are a couple of pictures which might help someone else: This one shows some text on the panel below the seat, but I can't read it.

toupée (allegedly!) There are so many things you can say about a man who wants to build a great wall to keep out immigrants, but won't be influenced by the Chinese .

If I may hijack this thread for a moment, I've just heard the sad news that Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi has died. The 25-year-old Frenchman had been in a coma since a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix nine months ago. BBC F1 commentator and former team owner Eddie Jordan spoke this morning of how Jules had been on Ferrari's young driver program, and how he was destined for great things. During last year's rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix, Jules' car left the track and hit a recovery vehicle that was picking up the crashed car of Adrian Sutil. His family said: "Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but today his battle came to an end." This is the first death of a Formula 1 driver resulting from injuries sustained in a race since Ayrton Senna in 1991. Safety car procedures were changed by the next race, so hopefully this kind of accident will never happen again. More info here.

Welcome to HNet. It looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you. That Charger looks a little odd with the headlights exposed by the missing grille - you don't often see them like that. Are you planning to change the front clip to a '69, or are you keeping it as a '70?

Are they still eating squirrels, Roger?

Thanks for the review, Lizzy, and for the links you posted earlier this week. I haven't been able to follow the races like I did last year, but I try keep up-to-date with the results.

Good question, Roth. There was no information about the car at the event, and no one to ask. I haven't seen many modern F1 cars close-up, and the supplying company's website is still under construction. If I remember, I'll check their site again in the future to see whether it's genuine or a replica. The Hesketh is definitely the real thing.

This Rolls Royce was for sale, although I didn't see a price. I think there were four of these Goldwing trikes. This one came complete with a trailer. The red and white tape was just to stop people sitting on it. I was surprised to see this McLaren Formula 1 car displayed under a Red Bull tent. It's one of Lewis Hamilton's cars from a few years ago. The Minis in the background were doing a handling display of reversing, handbrake turns and donuts. I'll finish with another Formula 1 car. This is a race-winning Hesketh from the mid-70s. It's driven here by Freddie Hunt, son of the late Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt who originally drove it. Anyone who's seen Ron Howard's 2013 movie 'Rush' will know the James Hunt/Niki Lauda story.

Another Summer weekend, another car show. This one was billed as a 'Festival of Speed', no doubt because of the well-established and popular 'Goodwood Festival of Speed' which took place in England a couple of weeks ago (I'll have to go to that one year). The first thing I looked at was a display of old and new rally cars. The one below is a Metro 6R4, one of the banned Group B rally cars from the mid-80s. Most of the rally cars took to the track to do a few circuits. As I was photographing the rally cars, a line of Ferraris turned up. They included a 355, a Testarossa, a Dino and a Mondial. There were also two 308 GTSs, so I briefly got to play Magnum P.I. when one of the owners let me sit in the driver's seat. I think that this was the only American car at the show. I originally saw this Ford Galaxie back in April at the show I posted about above, which is when I took this picture. It has now acquired a new sticker on the hood. Gun ownership is generally illegal here, so it's quite safe to display the Confederate flag!

Welcome to HNet, Heather. You're right, we're not a bad bunch .

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Thanks for your reply, Mufn. I'm sure Firefox has updated in the last month (I'm currently on version 38.0.5), but HNet is the only site where I've seen this right-click behavior. Other forums, and sites like eBay and Amazon, still give me the old style menu.

Welcome to HNet, Ktulu.

Thanks, Roth. In Firefox the background goes dark and I get a pop-up window like this: I've just tried Chrome, IE and Opera, and they all give a right-click menu similar to the one I used to get.

I probably won't get a chance to check for broken links until the weekend, but it's good to have the "01" icon back on the tab . I've discovered something about this forum software that bugs me, and it's the way it handles right-clicks on images. I used to get a menu like this when I right-clicked an image (using Firefox): Mostly it was just to get the image location for another post. Now if you right-click an image you get a pop-up window containing the image with an option to save it. I know some forums disable right-clicking in a pointless attempt to protect images and text (there are always ways around these obstacles!), but the behavior of this software is just annoying. Is version 4 the same, Mufn?

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Roger, while I agree that attention needs to be given to why this young man felt the need to go on a shooting rampage, over here it's very unlikely he would have had any access to firearms. I'm not saying we don't have guns and shootings over here, but they're in much smaller numbers, and guns are not generally owned by civilians (other than farmers). Take a look at Wikipedia's list of countries by firearm-related death rate - the USA has an annual firearm-related death rate of 10.64 people per 100,000. Ireland isn't on the list, but the rate in the UK is 0.25 people per 100,000 (i.e. the rate in the USA is over 40 times higher per captita). For anyone who's interested, the USA are currently 13th in the list behind Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Jamaica, Swaziland, Guatemala, Colombia, South Africa, Brazil, Panama, Uruguay and Mexico. The USA does lead the number of guns per capita by country with 88.8 guns owned per 100 residents. By contrast, the UK is in 82nd place with 6.6, and Ireland is down in 106th place with 4.3. From a 2013 article on usatoday.com, "Gunshot wounds and deaths cost Americans at least $12 billion a year in court proceedings, insurance costs and hospitalizations paid for by government health programs, according to a recent study." Here in Ireland, the letters NRA stand for the National Roads Authority!

Nine people are shot dead in a church, and rather than rethinking gun laws, it's a flag that gets the blame. Meanwhile, the NAACP, long-time opponents of the Confederate flag, seem to be having trouble determining whether their leaders are black or white. As an outsider, it all makes perfect sense.

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The Drag 'N' Fly contest was in 'Goodbye, General Lee' in season 4. Here's a poster for the event that Roger mentioned: And here's my version of the banner from the Fan Art section.

I know we're spoiled over here having a few commercial-free channels, but I find it increasingly amazing that US viewers put up with so many commercials. Even on our commercial stations, a half-hour show only usually has a single break, and it's obvious with some US shows that at least two other breaks have been omitted. If I compare half-hour comedies, ones made by the (commercial-free) BBC are generally around 29 minutes long, although some have been known to go over 30 minutes in the past (just like some full episodes of Top Gear are 61 or 62 minutes long). UK/Irish sitcoms on commercial TV tend to be around 24 and a half minutes, which is about where US shows were at in the 1970s (I'm using my M*A*S*H DVDs as an example). The latest season of The Big Bang Theory had several episodes that were around 19 and a half minutes long including opening and closing credits. I guess that's what happens when five of the stars demand $1 million per episode (which, based on the quality of the last season, seems like pretty poor value for money). The same appears to be true with sporting events. With NASCAR races it feels like the race coverage and commercials get about equal time, and when UK stations take US feeds of sports like golf, they tend to skip every other commercial break by going back to the studio for additional comment. Getting back to TVLand, stretching each Dukes episode to 70 minutes means that roughly a third of the time is commercials. Much as I'd like to see Dukes back on TV over here, I wouldn't watch them if they were either cut to pieces or over an hour long.

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