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Ãdh mór ort! It's St. Patrick's Day, so I went with Irish .

It's a shame you don't drive - you're only five hours away from Santa Clarita (mainly straight down the I-5). A lot of the non-studio scenes were filmed around Santa Clarita and Lake Sherwood.

MeadowMufn was due to have an operation today - you'll have to be patient! The only scene I can find with dialog near to your signature is in 'Jude Emery'. Jude is hidden in the back of the General when Luke discovers a rattlesnake up front. The snake comes out after Snake Harmon's accomplice repeatedly runs into the General. Jude: What's going on? Luke: We got a rattlesnake here in the front. Jude: Don't let him back here. There ain't room. Bo: Luke, you're thinking, ain't you? Luke: Oh, yeah. After a pause ... Luke: They like mice. Bo: Do you have one on you? Luke looks at Jude. Jude: There ain't room for a mouse, either. Bo: Well, think faster.

That was definitely more exciting than the last few weeks, and I'm not normally a big fan of Bristol. I thought Ricky drove a great race today, especially the second half. I was also impressed with Kyle Larson - he probably deserved a few places better than 10th. Kevin Harvick's car was smoking before he hit the wall, and it was something mechanical rather than just a rubbing tire. Martin Truex Jr. was also told by his spotter that his car was smoking (this time it was a tire), but carried on until his tire burst.

Surely they'd only need two or three umbrellas to cover Bristol Motor Speedway - it isn't very big .

What good timing! A rain delay just in time to let me watch the second half of the Top Gear Burma special .

Could your view of the incident be slightly biased? Gordon came out of his pit box and hit the back of David Ragan's car as he was driving by to enter his pit box. I'm not sure what else Ragan could've done.

They had rain during the qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix yesterday, so they put on the wet weather tires and got on with it! If the race is postponed, just phone into work and tell them you're Irish - tomorrow is a holiday here because it's St. Patrick's Day .

Hazzard's station is only seen once. It's in the season 2 episode 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough'. See more in the Hazzard Square thread. Although the station only appeared once, railroad tracks appear in several episodes like 'Granny Annie', and 'Danger on the Hazzard Express'. The jumps from 'Granny Annie' were filmed at Oxnard. These pictures are taken from the episode guide:

NASCAR modified the group qualifying rules for the race in Bristol this week. Changes included allowing the use of cooling units in the pit lane and an end to cool down laps on the apron. Denny Hamlin lines up on pole for Sunday's race, but Brad Keselowski is just behind with his third front row start in three weeks. Jeff Gordon starts in sixth and Jimmie Johnson is just outside the top ten in eleventh. Ricky Stenhouse is in 21st, so I hope he can make up some places from there (he was 16th in practice 1). After two weeks of failing to qualify, Landon Cassill makes it back into the field in 31st. 1 Denny Hamlin 2 Brad Keselowski 3 Matt Kenseth 4 Joey Logano 5 Marcos Ambrose 6 Jeff Gordon 7 Kyle Busch 8 Greg Biffle 9 Ryan Newman 10 Kasey Kahne 11 Jimmie Johnson 12 Carl Edwards 13 Kurt Busch 14 Dale Earnhardt Jr 15 Clint Bowyer 16 David Gilliland 17 Jamie McMurray 18 Cole Whitt 19 David Ragan 20 Kyle Larson 21 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 22 AJ Allmendinger 23 Aric Almirola 24 Michael McDowell 25 Casey Mears 26 Austin Dillon 27 Kevin Harvick 28 Paul Menard 29 Martin Truex Jr 30 Justin Allgaier 31 Landon Cassill 32 Josh Wise 33 Alex Bowman 34 Michael Annett 35 Reed Sorenson 36 Danica Patrick 37 Tony Stewart 38 Brian Vickers 39 Travis Kvapil 40 Ryan Truex 41 Parker Kligerman 42 Joe Nemechek 43 Timmy Hill David Reutimann and Dave Blaney failed to qualify. The Food City 500 from the Bristol Motor Speedway is live on Fox this Sunday at 1.00PM ET. PS. If you can't wait that long, don't forget that the Formula 1 season starts this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix. It's an early start with the action getting under way on Sunday at 2.00AM ET.

Siege Might as well stick with the movie theme .

Down (I'll go with another movie title: Black Hawk Down)

Shoveltown had a sheriff's office (on the right in the picture below), so it's quite plausible that there was at least a jail cell or two.

Hawk (Hudson Hawk is a Bruce Willis movie)

Shoveltown appeared in 'The Hack of Hazzard' near the end of season 3. Here's what it looked like: There are a few more pictures in the Hazzard Square thread.

I haven't mentioned Michael Schumacher for a while, and the reason is that there wasn't any change in his condition. Recently the doctors began the process of bringing him out of his induced coma, and today his family released a statement saying "We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up. There sometimes are small, encouraging signs, but we also know that this is the time to be very patient." It's not much, but at least it seems like a bit of positive news. Full story: Schumacher condition shows 'encouraging signs'

It's based on the number of posts you've made. See my post here for more details.

Mufn, I can't promise you a personal visit from Cale Yarborough to cheer you up before your operation, but here's the signed picture that the Dukes originally asked for .

If they were as inebriated as Hobie, anything's possible .

Speaking personally, Facebook could close down tomorrow and I probably wouldn't even notice, but it does sound like they treated John pretty badly. Maybe they could just ring him up and ask him to scream "Yee-Haw" to verify his identity .

I think it's more likely that the storyline was conceived to make viewers think that it might be the end of the line for the Dukes living in Hazzard, but the intention was always to get them back in the farm. Can you imagine the reaction from fans if the series had ended with Boss owning the Duke Farm and Hazzard being strip-mined? The idea of pseudo series-ending episode was pulled off very well in the Red Dwarf season 5 finale 'Back to Reality'. I watched it when it first aired, and was convinced it was going to be the last ever episode until a couple of minutes from the end.

Getting Sorrell to play his own father would have been fun, and would probably have made more sense. The idea led me to try and remember other cases where actors played relatives. Obviously there's the Back to the Future movies where several actors play their own relatives. It's similar to the concept behind a Dukes episode we haven't mentioned yet: 'Go West, Young Dukes'. All the inhabitants of Sleepy City bore an uncanny resemblance to their modern-day counterparts. It also got me thinking about 'M*A*S*H'. In one episode (I forget which), Radar (played by Gary Burghoff) gets sent a home movie which features Gary Burghoff playing Radar's mother. Just to mix things up, Robert Alda (aka. C.J. Holmes from 'The Runaway') appears alongside his real-life son, Alan Alda, yet their characters are not related. Alan's half-brother Anthony also appears as an unrelated character. I guess that opens up another can of worms if we include real relatives appearing in shows. 'One Armed Bandits' featured Ernie Lively and his stepson Jason. I won't count Jimmie Best's wife Dorothy appearing in 'The Rustlers' as they weren't married at the time. Were there any other real-life relatives in Dukes? I think it can be easy to forget what it was like watching TV in the early '80s, especially for those members who weren't born! Most people didn't even have VCRs, let alone DVD boxsets, Dukes TV marathons and the internet. You got to see the show once when it first aired and then maybe sometime later as a re-run. Plenty of TV shows got away with recycling storylines because they were a year or two apart. I'm now older, and have seen every episode of Dukes several times, so the repetition does stand out sometimes, but I don't remember noticing it so much when I first saw them.

'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke' is the third episode of season 7.

The two-parters are: Season 3 - 'Carnival of Thrills' Season 4 - '10 Million Dollar Sheriff' Season 6 - 'Undercover Dukes'

I tweaked the colors a bit.