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Rock and Roll (AC/DC have a song called 'Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution')

F1 Hijack Alert . Pre-season Formula 1 testing started in Jerez today, with many of the teams showing off their new cars. This year the cars are powered by brand new V6 turbo engines, and there have been many changes to other aspects of the body designs too. The car below is the new Mercedes W05. Some of the other teams, like the McLaren below, have gone with an "anteater" nose to keep within the rules. More importantly, with Michael Schumacher still in an induced coma following his skiing accident, two of his former teams have been showing their support. The last team he drove for, Mercedes, revealed their new car with the hashtag "#KeepFightingMichael" on the side. Ferrari, the team for whom he won five of his seven world championships, posed for a team photo with a pit board reading "#ForzaMichael!".

Generally speaking: Great Britain = England, Scotland and Wales. UK = the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ie. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland (often shortened to Ireland) or Eire is not part of either. Just to confuse things, when the UK takes part in something like the Olympics they compete under the name "Great Britain" or "Team GB", but in the Six Nations Rugby competition there's a team called "Ireland" which includes players from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. To make things even more complicated, later this year Scotland will be taking a vote on whether to become independent. What you can be sure of is that all the countries are part of the British Isles - hope that helps .

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I guess you're talking about this commercial, Roger. I haven't seen it here, but we don't get coffee for $1! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZvAJDJ4hBA

I heard this catchy little number at the beginning of a movie that was on earlier. NB. I'm playing the single, repeated word rule here . Alright, Alright, Alright - Mungo Jerry

The town they race through in 'Luke's Love Story' is Piru. It also features in a couple of other episodes and the 2007 Dukes movie - see here and here in the Hazzard Square thread. I can't tell whether this is Piru - I'll have to compare some pictures.

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Well spotted, Hobie. It looks like the version they ending up using mainly featured Uncle Jesse looking up: Here's the platform that Boss was standing on: And a better look at the outfits in color:

Mini

Beans (I'll say no more )

I'm quite happy with the regional information as long as it's clearly labeled. The details below the cast look like this for me: The details at the top, however, have the same date without saying it applies to the UK. I'm guessing that a lot of people will see this date without looking further down the page. I only realized they were doing this a couple of months ago when I was trying to date an old photo of a movie theater by the movie being shown. I couldn't get the dates to agree until I found the US information. I should probably be more concerned that IMDb thinks that Ireland is in the UK .

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Roth, IMDb used to only show US-based information unless you did a bit of digging. Nowadays it has more regional information, and will show data specific to where you live as the default. Here's the 'Release Info' for 'One Armed Bandits' (which agrees with Wikipedia):

Boots

I think the stunt driver would happy landing like this as the crumpling of the front of the car cushions the impact. It wasn't their choice to put weight in the trunk so the General landed flat!

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Well, I guess your season starts a month earlier that ours, so we'll probably have to talk about NASCAR for a while . The Chase always feels very artificial to me, but so do caution flags for stray burger wrappers. Maybe they should try giving a bigger points bonus for winning races as they do in another prominent motorsport (I won't say which one as it will annoy Garrett, but it's named after the sixth letter of the alphabet and the first positive integer ).

I'm sure the Salzar Radials logo is designed to bear a passing resemblance to the Marlboro logo in the same way that the Octoline badge looks quite like the Castrol Oil logo. Even though it's spelled slightly differently, I'd also guess that it might be a reference to Albert J. Salzer who's credited as "unit production manager" on 28 episodes of the early episodes and "associate producer" on 23 episodes. It would fit in with some of the other Real Stuff in Hazzard.

I should've posted this yesterday, but, in my defense, we don't have Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Ireland. Pride (In The Name of Love) - U2 The chimneys and cranes in the video are all around the port in Dublin. Here's a picture I took from the back of the catamaran ferry about two years ago on an overcast day.

Muppets

For the past few days there's been a contestant on a UK quiz show that I watch who's name is Denver. Today it was finally his turn in the "hot seat", and the host got to ask about his name (Denver isn't a common name in the UK). He confessed that his mother had named him after Denver Pyle, and mentioned Dukes in his explanation. The contestant's age wasn't given, but I'd guess he was born in the early to mid-50s, so his mother must've been a fan of Denver Pyle's early work. Here's a reminder of how Denver looked in his first movie role - 'The Guilt of Janet Ames' (1947):

Sheep To quote Bo in 'The Meeting', "Have you ever seen such hairy pigs?"

No, it was definitely at Lake Sherwood, across the creek from the later Boar's Nest/Duke Farm locations. Today, the location of Swamp Molly's house is on the edge of the 14th fairway of the golf club, quite close to Stafford Road.