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What about your friends in Ireland? OK, we're on the same time zone as the UK, so that time's alright for me. Don't forget other European members like Roth and i1976 - they're in countries on Central European Time ie. 5 or 6 ET is 11 or 12 CET.

I'm still recovering from when you first posted this song back in January . Here's a song about becoming more like Alfie, the womanizer played by Michael Caine in the 1966 movie of the same name. It's from the 1996 album 'Casanova'. Becoming More Like Alfie - The Divine Comedy Just a quick note to everyone replying to this thread (I'm guilty of this myself): Since we've nearly all switched to embedding videos, it's easy to forget to include the name of the song/artist in the post. This means that it doesn't show up when you search the thread (either to check if a song's been posted before, or to find a song you want to listen to again), and there's also no way of knowing what the song was if the video gets removed from YouTube.

How about a snowball made with Dutch Advocaat?

I had some help from Google Translate . Party at the Boar's Nest?

Gefeliciteerd, Roth! Well done Roth, you deserve it .

Indeed I do. We concluded that it was somewhere on the WB backlot, and most likely near to what they now call Hennesy Street. I'm still looking for a long shot or aerial shot that shows it in context.

This certainly looks like the jump that CDoherty discusses in the thread about the Tom Sarmento interview. Your moving GIF appears to show the camera being knocked off. If that's the case, then the General jumped further than expected, and no cameras caught the landing. If anyone missed it, CDoherty's post is here.

Thanks for the results, Garrett. I made it to nearly half distance before I had to call it a night (I already had my alarm set for the Japanese Grand Prix at 2 AM ET). I've just had a quick look through the lap-by-lap guide, and it looks like I didn't miss much action. I bet you enjoyed seeing the top four spots taken by Hendricks' cars near the beginning. It's a shame that Kyle Larson had to drop out - he was doing really well when I left it.

Last night I watched an interesting program about the early days of synthesizer music in Britain. One of the bands mentioned was Yazoo (known as Yaz in the US), formed when Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode and teamed up Alison Moyet. This is one of my favorite tracks of theirs. After checking out several videos on YouTube, I came across this live version that I'd never heard before. I really shows off Alison's vocals well. Situation - Yazoo "] In case anyone's interested, the whole 90-minute BBC documentary called 'Synth Britannia' is also on YouTube - you can see it .

In case y'all have missed them, JRW has been busy imagining what some of the patrol cars from Dukes would look like today. The link above wasn't initially showing up in the post, so when I figured out that it was hidden in there somewhere, I asked Mufn to fix it. It seemed like a fun idea, so I had a go myself. I started with a Chevy Caprice, and just put the standard decals on it: Then I tried a bit of updating: Finally, I couldn't resist doing a couple of Dodge Chargers:

I know he's been arrested and charged, but I didn't read anywhere that he's been convicted. You and NASCAR seem pretty convinced about his guilt, yet "although the Constitution of the United States does not cite it explicitly, presumption of innocence is widely held to follow from the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments." - Wikipedia. If he's guilty, then obviously I wouldn't condone his behavior, and NASCAR should probably impose some kind of punishment, but let's wait until we know the facts/verdict.

I usually have at least six or seven windows open, and only restart my computer about once a week, so I rarely see my desktop. Consequently, it's been the same for ages. It's an arty shot of a Mitchell Gyro Dec turntable. When I was a teenager, this was on my dream list for the ultimate hi-fi system. They were well out of my price range, but I loved the clear base and polished cylinders. Mitchell is actually an engineering company rather than a hi-fi company, and still produce the Gyro Dec today. They now cost $2000-3000 - more info here. I also remember its appearance in a cereal commercial at about the same time:

In other motorsport news: Last week Garrett reported on Dario Franchitti's horrendous crash at the Houston Grand Prix. He broke two vertebrae in his spine, two ribs and an ankle, but was released from hospital yesterday. Dario still faces a second operation on his ankle, but said he was "overwhelmed by the outpouring of support". You can read more here. Sadder news from Spain today: F1 reserve driver María de Villota was found dead in her hotel this morning. Last year María was involved in a crash during testing in which she received head injuries and lost her right eye, but was cleared to go racing again in February. No definite cause of death has been given yet, but a heart attack is suspected. She was 33. More info here. Getty Images

I finally remembered to check the qualifying times on a Friday, and found that qualifying was yesterday . Anyway, I'm sure Garrett will be pleased to see who's on pole for tomorrow's race. 1 Jeff Gordon 2 Kevin Harvick 3 Greg Biffle 4 Jimmie Johnson 5 Kasey Kahne 6 Dale Earnhardt Jr 7 Ryan Newman 8 Juan Pablo Montoya 9 Kyle Busch 10 Kurt Busch 11 Aric Almirola 12 Joey Logano 13 Paul Menard 14 Clint Bowyer 15 Carl Edwards 16 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 17 Martin Truex Jr 18 Denny Hamlin 19 Brian Scott 20 Matt Kenseth 21 Kyle Larson 22 Mark Martin 23 Brad Keselowski 24 Bobby Labonte 25 Jamie McMurray 26 Jeff Burton 27 Brian Vickers 28 Casey Mears 29 Marcos Ambrose 30 David Ragan 31 Cole Whitt 32 Landon Cassill 33 Josh Wise 34 David Gilliland 35 Danica Patrick 36 David Reutimann 37 Michael McDowell 38 Joe Nemechek 39 Dave Blaney 40 Timmy Hill 41 Travis Kvapil 42 J.J. Yeley 43 Blake Koch The Bank of America 500 from the Charlotte Motor Speedway is tomorrow night (Saturday). I wish NASCAR.com could be consistent with their times - it's either at 6:30 PM ET or 7:30 PM ET. It's generally the later of the two times they give. Either way, the race is live on ABC this week. The start time means it will probably finish too late for me to see the end this week as I'll be up early on Sunday morning to watch the Japanese Grand Prix.

Do y'all remember the Capital City Motel that appeared in 'Enos and Daisy's Wedding'. I posted pictures back in post #123. Here's a reminder: At the time, I thought it might have been a real motel, but as I found more locations, I got the feeling that it could be somewhere on the backlot. I now have the location courtesy of Moxie from the 'Scarecrow and Mrs King' site (see two posts back). The picture below shows the office building on the WB backlot that was used as the motel. It was taken by Moxie during a visit to Burbank at the beginning of the year. The Google Maps view below shows the office/motel building roughly in the center at the top. Hazzard Square is at the bottom, and some of New York Street can be seen at the left. I've marked the rough camera location for Moxie's picture with an arrow. I had considered this building before, but ruled it out because I thought it was single-story. Also, the 45-degree view on Google Maps which shows the eastern side is too dark to see any detail. Thanks to Moxie for both identifying the location and letting me use the picture.

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You're quite right Roth, I should've done my research better. When I said the wheels were pretty close, I was comparing them to the picture on the Supercar Collectibles site: These are common wheels for Mopars of that era (I even did my FanArt version with these wheels!). However, when I looked at the larger image and compared it with the actual scene from 'Money to Burn' (below), I realized that the wheels have been Photoshopped on the picture above. I guess it was easier to make the picture look like the model than make the model look like the real car. It's a shame when these models fall down on simple details like this (see my previous comments on Cooter's Camaro here). Hopefully they can fix the wheels before release.

I think the wheels are pretty close, although the reflections make it difficult to tell. I agree that the hood decals are slightly off (not by much), but the site describes it as a "sample displayed at iHobby toy show". It's quite possible that details will change before it's released.

Supercar Collectibles finally have sample pictures of the upcoming 1:18 model of Daisy's 1971 Road Runner. The expected delivery date has now been put back to March, 2014. More details here. They also have news of an updated version of Rosco's patrol car, but a "newer yet" lightbar is the only detail listed for the improvements. Release is likely to be May 2014. Off topic I know, but I seem to remember that Roger has a liking for the Charlie's Angels Mustang II. The 1:18 version by Greenlight Collectibles comes out next week (October 14th), although maybe it's not the same without Farrah Fawcett on the hood .

I was glad to see McDowell and Wise got their refreshment and relaxation periods sorted this week, because last week, according to the lap-by-lap guide, they had to retire "due to break issues" .

While I was hanging out on a forum about Los Angeles recently, I came across a fellow member, Moxie, who has been tracking down filming locations for the '80s TV series 'Scarecrow and Mrs King'. What piqued my interest is that they also used the WB backlot overlapping the time when Dukes was filmed there, although they preferred to work on New York and Hennesy Streets: SMK on the WB backlot: http://scarecrowandmrskingforum.yuku.com/topic/2255/SMK-on-the-WB-backlot There's another thread for all the other filming locations. Moxie and friends really had their work cut out finding some of these places as both east and west coast locations were used, as well as a few in Europe. You'll even find maps that tie all the locations together. Other filming locations: http://scarecrowandmrskingforum.yuku.com/topic/2245/Filming-Locations

Thanks - I was trying to watch something on TV at the same time and missed what happened. Still, he was very close to two of the earlier crashes/spins and got away without any contact, so I guess I should be glad for that.

What happened to Ricky at the end? He was running in the top 20 with about 50 laps to go, and then, toward the end, he suddenly went a lap down just at a point in the race when there weren't any cautions! I've just watched the Dario Franchitti crash and it looks pretty bad, although the driver compartment stayed intact. In the Korean Grand Prix we had a tire ripping itself apart, a front wing coming loose and creating a shower of sparks, and Mark Webber's car catching fire (he got out unhurt before the fire really took hold).

Going to Las Vegas was a popular idea for '80s TV shows. The A-Team went in 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas', The Fall Guy in 'TKO', and Knight Rider in more than one episode. Although the Dukes never went, "Vegas" does get a passing mention in a few episodes eg. "I mean, all that talk about shock absorbers back there... and the whole time, they got a little Vegas running. In Vegas at least you got a chance of winning." in 'Route 7-11'.