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"Did you spin on purpose to help your team mate?" "No, I think we had a flat tire or something." Bowyer doesn't seem too keen to make eye contact as he gives his answer. It also looks like he's basically saying "There was a good reason for my spin, honest. As soon as we've thought of it, we'll tell you". I noticed the commentators were also dubious of one of the debris cautions, saying that certain drivers (sorry, I forgot which) were calling in debris reports because they needed to pit.

I'm sorry that JG missed out, but I'm happy with this result. Ricky had a solid race (even though I hardly saw him on screen), and was never off the lead lap. He seemed to struggle slightly after the start and each restart, but made up places just before the stops. I found it hard to keep up with all the position changes over the last 20 laps, with drivers slipping in and out of The Chase. I even thought Ricky would be denied a top ten finish when he fell to twelfth after the Bowyer caution, but he must've made up two places on the last lap.

Don't know if you saw 'Mock the Week' this week, but they had a round something like 'Unlikely things to hear on a motoring show'. Andy Parsons came up with "This car has a fail-safe anti-theft device: It's a Vauxhall Corsa".* * For non-Europeans, Vauxhall Corsa is the UK equivalent of CD's Opel Corsa. Vauxhall and Opel are the main European brands owned by GM. A very limited range of Chevy's is sold here, but we don't get Buick or GMC. I'm not sure if Cadillac is officially sold here anymore.

You could also use a gromit: Sorry, I mean grommet : BTW. The horn sounds a little fast. Can you change the speed?

Could it simply have been a "choice" of the weather? When I was watching 'CHiPs' earlier this year, I noticed that the stars mainly wore short-sleeved shirts, but not always. Maybe some cold Santa Ana winds were blowing when they filmed the last season . You could add a couple of screengrabs to this thread - I think there's only two different outfits shown here at the moment.

I know football games last about three days, but your game doesn't start until 1:00 PM ET. The Grand Prix starts at 8:00 AM ET, and will be over by 10:00 AM - you'll have to think of a different excuse now .

Well Garrett, it looks like it's your turn to be happy with the qualifying results this week. 1. Jeff Gordon 2. Kurt Busch 3. Brad Keselowski 4. Clint Bowyer 5. Matt Kenseth 6. Denny Hamlin 7. Jamie McMurray 8. Joey Logano 9. Greg Biffle 10. Regan Smith (Jimmie Johnson will drive car) 11. Martin Truex Jr. 12. Juan Pablo Montoya 13. Kyle Busch 14. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 15. Aric Almirola 16. Mark Martin 17. Kevin Harvick 18. Kasey Kahne 19. Jeff Burton 20. Brian Vickers 21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 22. Paul Menard 23. David Ragan 24. Ryan Newman 25. Casey Mears 26. Carl Edwards 27. Josh Wise 28. Landon Cassill 29. David Stremme 30. Michael McDowell 31. Joe Nemechek 32. Marcos Ambrose 33. Travis Kvapil 34. AJ Allmendinger 35. David Reutimann 36. Danica Patrick 37. David Gilliland 38. Ryan Truex 39. Reed Sorenson 40. Dave Blaney 41. Tony Raines 42. Ken Schrader 43. JJ Yeley The Federated Auto Parts 400 at the Richmond International Raceway starts at 6:30 PM ET tomorrow (Saturday) on ABC. If you still want a race to watch on Sunday, don't forget the Gran Premio d'Italia (or Italian Grand Prix if you prefer) from Monza - one of the oldest and fastest tracks on the calendar.

I've lightened the image to show the Road Runner a little clearer.

Madonna

Is this the picture you were after? I don't normally go to Instagram because I thought it was full of pictures of people's food . I think you tried posting the address of the page as an image. In Firefox I can right-click the image and select 'View Background Image', then use that address. In Chrome it's not so easy - right-clicking and selecting 'View Page Source' or 'Inspect Element' will reveal the name of the image if you can find it hidden in all the other info. NB. Normally it's easier to insert images - maybe there's an easier way to hotlink Instagram images (as I say, I don't use it).

We'll have to agree to disagree about Daft Punk - I like them. It looks like the anime tie-in was for their 2001 album 'Discovery'. Here's their appearance in 'Interstella 5555' (picture from Wikipedia):

You know very well that I was talking about the animation style used in their videos . I have a couple of Gorillaz albums and a few of Blur's too. I watched the first part of '5 Centimeters per Second', and while I'd concede that it's very well done, I didn't enjoy it as much as 'Howl's Moving Castle'. One reason is the amount of subtitles. There was more dialog, as well as train announcements and translations of writing that appeared on screen. By the time I'd read them, I'd missed what was happening. Maybe I'd get better with practice (or maybe I should start with English dubs before trying them in Japanese). The other reason was the realism. This may sound like a strange criticism, but some inanimate objects (eg. cars, buildings, signs etc.) looked almost photorealistic, and the city setting was also very real. What I liked about the Studio Ghibli movies is that they are pure fantasy, and the settings are very stylized versions of reality. Maybe they are just two different sub-genres of anime. None-the-less, I appreciate the recommendations .

I seem to remember you wanted to fit those horns to your bike. I think this makes more sense . Too much?

Was it 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3' - it's named on the Wikipedia page. Following on from yesterday's pictures of Tom and John in Pasadena, here's a few of them appearing together at the 1993 TV special 'A '70s Celebration: The Beat Is Back': I'd never heard of the show before, but I found a VHS transfer on YouTube. Skip to 2:25 to see Tom and John (you get nearly a minute before they're cut short ): Speaking of Tom and John appearing together, I also found a TV Guide advert for the 1987 movie 'Christmas Comes to Willow Creek'. And so Cathy doesn't feel left out, here she is with John: All pictures found on Ebay.

girls It's a section of beach, either near Santa Monica Pier or Venice Boulevard, where bodybuilders hang out. I seem to remember seeing the "Muscle Beach" sign in several '80s movies. The screengrab below is from 'Dragnet'.

beach (as in Muscle Beach)

Thanks for your description of the different type of anime. There isn't any on tonight, I checked early . I listened to this track, and it got me thinking that it's rare to hear songs sung in Japanese (even after they invented karaoke ). I took a look through my record collection, and found very little in Japanese. Songs by Fantastic Plastic Machine are nearly all in English, Isao Tomita plays electronic instrumentals, Ryuichi Sakamoto mainly does movie music (and I never got the collaboration album he did with Thomas Dolby, despite being a big Thomas Dolby fan ). I have a track that claims to be YMCA in Japanese, but it's actually Chinese. Funnily enough, I do have a live track by Ben Folds Five that they translated into Japanese for their Japanese tour, but it contains too much English swearing to post here. What does that leave me with? Well there's the song below which doesn't really have words (I also have the original 1959 version by The Rock*A*Teens, but this one is better). I love the expression on the drummer's face. The guy who presents the show that this clip was taken from, Jonathan Ross, is a big anime fan. Another Japanese artist that I couldn't resist posting is Takako Minekawa. You can see the original video , but I thought you might like the version below because, according to the descrption, the video is made using clips from the classic anime series "Azumanga Daioh". I know it's in English, but I love it . I was going to ask you if Gorillaz were anime, but I found an anime forum that concluded they have Japanese/anime influences, but are not anime. Still, remembering which forum we're on, you've got to love people who speed up at "BRIDGE OUT" signs!

That's more than I expected from NASCAR - well done them (do they read my posts ). I assume the allegation about Max Papis pushing Mike Skeen's girlfriend proved not to be true.

That was one the pictures I found earlier. The location was actually the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena. It closed in 1988 and was knocked down and rebuilt to almost exactly the same plans so that it met earthquake codes. It re-opened in 1991, and I think the photo dates from sometime after that. Since 2007 it's been known as the Langham Huntington, Pasadena (sorry, I was reading about it recently!). Here's another three pictures I found from the same shoot (all found on Ebay, I've trimmed them from larger pictures that show the complete slide surrounds): Does John carry the action figure around to remind people who he is? I also found a better quality picture from the same shoot as the TV Guide picture that I posted here:

While I sort through the pictures of John, Tom and Cathy, here's the last of today's Ebay finds. The first claims to be a 1979 promotional poster for the first season. I'll ignore the spelling of Rosco(e) as the makers of the show seemed unsure how to spell it in the early days, but Sorrell Brooke? The style is quite similar to some of the election posters that appeared in the show. I think this one is a read-a-long book/record. The seller is asking $16 or $17 for just the sleeve (ie. no record to play). This one's all Greek to me, which is lucky, because it's a Greek sticker album! Here's an advert (probably from TV Guide) for the 1980 TV special 'John Schneider: Back Home'. Roth posted some pictures from the show earlier in the thread - you can see them here.

Thanks, K-Duke. You can see the pictures I posted of Denver as Briscoe Darling here. The top two YouTube links no longer work, but the bottom two still seem fine.

Fair enough, thanks for the feedback. There's already a thread for pictures of John and another for pictures of Tom - I'll use those for most of the non-Dukes pictures. There are two short threads for Cathy, but they've both lost all their pictures and the links are dead, so maybe I should start a new one. I think that pictures of people who only appeared in one or two episodes might get lost elsewhere, so I may still include a few pictures like the one of Fran Ryan.

Here's a selection of promo/publicity cards all found on Ebay. The first is for John's movie 'Collier & Co.'. As the small print says, this is Tom discussing his return to Dukes. Neva Patterson plays Swamp Molly. Do y'all recognize Fran Ryan? She played Ma Harper in 'Duke vs. Duke'.

I've been raiding Ebay again, and found enough material for many, many posts! I've noticed that it's mainly been me who's posted pictures of Dukes stars in contexts that aren't directly connected with Dukes eg. pictures of Cathy from studio shoots. Are y'all happy to see them here, or should I post them in other threads eg. pics of John in the 'John Schneider / Bo Duke' section? No controversy here: they're all TV Guide adverts for Dukes that I don't think we've seen before. Just to annoy Roger, they all have different start times! The first is for 'Granny Annie'. This one puzzles me. I'm sure it's got to be for 'And in This Corner, Luke Duke', but it says "SEASON PREMIERE!". 'And in This Corner, Luke Duke' was either the fourth or fifth episode in season 3 (depending on whether you count 'Carnival of Thrills' as one or two episodes). The Dallas episode appears to be 'Nightmare', which was orginally broadcast on the same night as 'And in This Corner, Luke Duke'. No puzzles this time: it's for 'The Fortune Tellers', the last episode in season 6. I'll finish this post with an advert for the cartoon series. I don't think I've heard the words "Benji", "Zax", "Alien" and "Prince" used together since the '80s! I'm sure I used to watch it, but I have no memory of the what happened.

It looks like "third time lucky" proves to be true. After missing 'Laputa: Castle in the Sky' and 'Spirited Away', quite by chance I found that 'Howl's Moving Castle' was on last night, and I switched on just in time to catch the start. It was rather late, and they showed the original Japanese version with subtitles rather than the English dubbed version, but I still enjoyed it. I did feel that they rushed the ending, and Sofi/Sophie's age changes were initially confusing, but I think think they're the only two negatives I have (and the age changes would probably be easier to understand if I hadn't been tired when I watched it!). I'll keep an eye out for other Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki movies - visually, they're very impressive. As an aside, some of the mechanical devices eg. the ships returning from war and Howl's castle itself reminded me of Terry Gilliam's animations for Monty Python and his creations for 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. As I said, I was tired at the time .