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Just FYI, in Ireland, March 17th is known as St. Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day. I've been here over 10 years now and I've never heard it called St. Patty's Day. Also, I've never seen green beer, although McDonald's do a green Shamrock shake. The traditional food is (boiled) bacon and cabbage - maybe you can enjoy some of that.

A couple of Murray Walker videos: Murray interviews Nigel Mansell about the bump on his head, and pokes him right on it! I think this one is from Jeremy Clarkson's chat show. Murray commentates on snooker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbuXfsI_fU I really miss Murray's F1 commentary. I can't believe he's 90 now!

It was 2010. Bruno Senna took his place for the 2012 season. Manhole cover behind Barrichello Monaco shunt The picture quality of this video isn't great, but it's a lot shorter than the others I found.

Here's the teaser that Sky Sports are using for this season:

Act I keep hearing it on a commercial for electronic cigarettes, but never knew who it was by.

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With 'The A-Team', George Peppard had to play some kind of alter ego nearly every week as Hannibal disguised himself to meet prospective clients. Having said that, this was normally a brief scene near the start of an episode, so the extra make-up was probably a one-off each time.

I hope the surgery goes smoothly and that you get well soon. We'll take it in turns to keep the place clean while you're gone .

I'll kick off with 'Baa, Baa White Sheep' where Sorrell also plays Boss' honest twin brother, Abraham Lincoln Hogg. I'm not going to try and convince anyone that the idea of one actor playing twins with opposite personalities is original, but it was fun. Sorrell was a very talented character actor who loved playing Boss, but I'm sure he also enjoyed the chance to flip the characteristics. I thought it made a good one-off episode, with plenty of comedy/farcical moments, but I'm also glad they didn't over-stretch the idea by bringing Abraham Lincoln Hogg back for a second visit. Just to prove that Dukes wasn't the only '80s show to do this, David Hasselhoff also played Garthe Knight in 'Knight Rider'.

Thanks for the race review, Garrett. I only got to see some of the race, and the live leaderboard wasn't working today, but I didn't feel I missed much. The lap-by-lap guide says that he had brake issues at lap 194 and headed for the garage at lap 198, but then came back on track at lap 225. I was hoping for a better result after qualifying. He was hanging in the teens for a while, but went a lap down and almost immediately got caught entering the pits too fast, so that was that. When your driver goes a couple of laps down and doesn't look like they'll ever get back on the lead lap, the last thing you want is a couple of hundred extra laps! It's crashes that we need more of this season. At least there's only seven days left until the proper motorsport of 2014 gets started next week in Australia .

After I posted the video above which was filmed in Los Angeles, I discovered that people around the world had made their own versions. To do my bit for Fáilte Ireland, here's the one from Dublin. As you'll see, leprechauns are real - they're just a bit bigger than you imagined . Happy (Dublin Is Also Happy) - Pharrell Williams

Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles

The head and wrist bands are a dead giveaway that this is an '80s video. It also features some funny moments from various American ball sports. Walk of Life - Dire Straits

Well you did make a post yesterday saying that you wouldn't be posting the line-up last night or today, so since I watched some of the qualifying, I thought I might as well post it myself. You had me worried there, until I realized that British Summer Time doesn't start for another three weeks. Until then, you'll have to make do with the American version .

I have to agree with you guys, it wasn't the best picture to use .

I thought the same thing when I dug out my DVDs to get screengrabs for the Coy and Vance's car thread earlier today. Maybe they think people will pick up the box, see Coy and Vance on the cover, and put it back on the shelf!

Well, I got to see a bit of the new qualifying format today. It would've been better if the "live" TV coverage had been live, because the leaderboard on the NASCAR site was way ahead and kinda spoiled the surprise. I think the new format beats them all going out one at a time, but I'm sure it needs some tweaking. For one thing, there seems to be a lot of concern about the drivers slowing down on the apron. They use a similar qualifying system in Formula 1 (with much longer tracks), and you sometimes get half a dozen changes to pole position in the final 30 seconds. I can't see that happening in NASCAR unless they make a few changes. For the record, most of the comments I saw on the NASCAR site had negative views on the new format. I'm more hopeful that Ricky Stenhouse will get a good result this week. He starts sixth, and was also sixth in the second qualifying session. Joey Logano reversed last week's top two starting positions by swapping places with his team mate Brad Keselowski. Logano was also fastest in the second qualifying session. Here's how they all line up: 1 Joey Logano 2 Brad Keselowski 3 Clint Bowyer 4 Austin Dillon 5 Jimmie Johnson 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 7 Jamie McMurray 8 Aric Almirola 9 Brian Vickers 10 Ryan Newman 11 Carl Edwards 12 Martin Truex Jr 13 Kasey Kahne 14 Dale Earnhardt Jr 15 Jeff Gordon 16 Kevin Harvick 17 Kyle Larson 18 AJ Allmendinger 19 Jeff Burton 20 Kyle Busch 21 Paul Menard 22 Danica Patrick 23 Kurt Busch 24 Tony Stewart 25 Greg Biffle 26 David Ragan 27 Denny Hamlin 28 Cole Whitt 29 Matt Kenseth 30 Casey Mears 31 Josh Wise 32 Parker Kligerman 33 David Gilliland 34 Trevor Bayne 35 Michael McDowell 36 Alex Bowman 37 Justin Allgaier 38 Michael Annett 39 Ryan Truex 40 Reed Sorenson 41 Timmy Hill 42 Travis Kvapil 43 Marcos Ambrose Blake Koch, Landon Cassill, J.J. Yeley, Dave Blaney and Joe Nemechek failed to qualify. The KOBALT 400 from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is on this Sunday at 3:00 PM ET live on Fox.

There's a thread called Real Stuff in Hazzard which has a few other examples. Let's face it, they couldn't even agree on the spelling of Maybelle's name! (see this post)

Hobie, you remind me of a sign I had at my bedside while I was at college : I'm not under the affluence of incohol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I stay here, the longer I get!

The flat hood (without vents) would suggest to me that Coy and Vance's car was a 1974 Plymouth Satellite rather than a Road Runner. It's still possible that they reused one of Daisy's early Road Runners, but the cars were probably cheap and easy to get hold of in the early '80s, so it's just as likely that they were different cars. 1974 Plymouth Satellites featured in two season 4 episodes, 'Goodbye General Lee' and 'Birds Gotta Fly', so my guess would be that if they reused cars, it would be from those episodes. PJ, I'm afraid that MaryAnne is right about the white stripe. Here's the car on fire - I'll leave it up to y'all to decide if the luggage survived. I never understood why they didn't just reverse!

I know that everyone in the US celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Dukes of Hazzard back in January, but in the UK it didn't start until March 3rd, 1979. Below is the listing from the Radio Times (roughly the UK equivalent of the TV Guide) from that day. As y'all can see, it was originally shown at 9 PM on a Saturday night, but soon moved to an earlier Saturday slot. Back then we only had three channels, and no breakfast or daytime TV (except programs for schools). The two football leagues mentioned in the Match of the Day listing are now known as the Premier League and the Championship. Most of the other names bring back memories too . (Yes, I did spot the misspelling of Gy Waldron's name)

By the look of his IMDb page, he's still doing a bit of acting. They list him as Mayor Johnny Daggett in a 2013 episode of the TV series 'Rectify'. He'll play Jasper Jones in a 2014 movie named 'When the Storm God Rides' which is currently listed as "pre-production", and Officer Murray in a 2015 movie named 'Dead End' which is listed as "post-production". Not bad considering he turns 79 in August!

I suppose I should be happy with 18th today. It's three places better than he started, and about ten places better than where he spent most of the race. I was hoping for a storming finish when Ricky got back on the lead lap with about 26 laps to go, but this circuit obviously doesn't suit him as much as last week.

I put "military code" in quotes because the exchange between Rosco and Enos goes like this: Rosco: Blue Fox, this is Red Dog. I'm on target. Enos: Okay, sure. What now? Rosco: Dang it, Enos, will you please use the military code? Enos: Okay, Hound Dog. Rosco: It's not Hound Dog, it's Red Dog, you dipstick. Enos: Yes, sir.

Welcome to HazzardNet, PJ. I'm also from the UK, but currently living across the water in Ireland.