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    You're not alone, Roger. I still haven't found out what's calling my Adobe Flash Player problem. It works fine for ages and then crashes. I then have to leave it for about 10 minutes before I reload the page. As for HNet, I think there have been problems recently. It was down for about four hours at the weekend (I tested it with a couple of websites that make sure it's not just my problem). I've also clicked on "Who's online" several times in the last two weeks and been given a single digit number of users online. This normally occurs just after the site reboots itself. I know this doesn't explain your problems with other sites, but it's not just you.
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    Thanks for the Family Feud videos, K-Duke. I've seen the one with the Waltons before, but I think the other two are new to me (I knew they existed, but have never seen them). Now I've seen Richard Dawson again it makes me want to watch some Hogan's Heroes .
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    About 18 months ago, Byron Cherry tried to sell his personally owned General Lee on Ebay for $150,000 (see the HNet homepage article here). The car obviously didn't sell, because it reappeared on Ebay a few months later with a "Buy it now" price of $99,000. When it didn't sell again, there was an announcement that he was donating the car to the Tim Welborne Muscle Car Museum in Alabama. You can see that thread here (along with a link to a video of Byron and his daughter with the car). Now, Byron seems to be selling the car on Ebay again (thanks to Mufn for posting the link on the HNet FB page). This time the auction doesn't include all the memorabilia in the trunk. The bids are currently just over $30,000, although the reserve hasn't been met. Two things interest me about the current Ebay listing. Firstly, there's a link to an advert from January's AutaBuy Magazine where the car was offered at a firm price of $75,000, which included the memorabilia. The second, tucked away at the side, is a link to a YouTube video called "Dukes are Back". This is described as "a test pilot (short) starring Byron Cherry for a possible spin off reboot called Coy & Vance (aka The Dukes are Back.)". The video was uploaded back in 2010, but I've never seen it before. It must've been recorded before the sad passing of Chip Mayer, but some guy named Pat Magnus plays Vance - it's all a bit strange.
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    when?
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    where?
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    I'm going for: A) 55 A) $7,500 A) 6 4
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    I don't know what medication you're taking, Roger, but can I have some . Roger and Roth got the correct odd-one-out, but no one got the connection. If you watch the season 6 DVD extra where Ben and Sonny revisit some of the Georgia filming locations, they mention that the original courthouse of Hazzard County is actually the Newton County courthouse in Covington, GA. Picture from Wikipedia.
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    Remember this question from about ten pages back? Well I've just come across the picture below which shows the filming of the 1946 movie 'The Best Years of Our Lives'. It shows the type of wheeled mic stand that I was trying to describe. The full sized original picture can be found on www.doctormacro.com.
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    I ended up missing the last part of the race today, so thanks for the re-cap. I saw enough to see Ricky back out on track and making up places. In fact I saw it up to just after Danica's crash, and thought Ricky just stood a chance of beating her if her car damage proved terminal. I suppose I can't complain with 34th after being taken out on the first lap. Here's the full provisional results: 1 Kasey Kahne 2 Jeff Gordon 3 Kurt Busch 4 Ryan Newman 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr 6 Brad Keselowski 7 Joey Logano 8 Kyle Busch 9 Tony Stewart 10 Greg Biffle 11 Carl Edwards 12 Marcos Ambrose 13 Jimmie Johnson 14 Clint Bowyer 15 Martin Truex Jr 16 Jamie McMurray 17 Kevin Harvick 18 Mark Martin 19 Bobby Labonte 20 Aric Almirola 21 David Ragan 22 Matt Kenseth 23 Dave Blaney 24 Casey Mears 25 J.J. Yeley 26 Travis Kvapil 27 Timmy Hill 28 Juan Pablo Montoya 29 Landon Cassill 30 David Stremme 31 David Reutimann 32 Paul Menard 33 AJ Allmendinger 34 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 35 Danica Patrick 36 Jeff Burton 37 Joe Nemechek 38 Tony Raines 39 David Gilliland 40 Michael McDowell 41 Josh Wise 42 Alex Kennedy 43 Denny Hamlin
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    So, the number 42 proves to be significant for Ricky as it's the number of the car that hits him on the first lap .
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    I'll sneak a quick two-part question in while Roger's not looking. Easy: Which one of the counties below is not mentioned in any episode? Hard: What is the connection between the odd-one-out and the Dukes of Hazzard? Chickasaw County Choctaw County Hatchapee County Newton County Osage County Riverton County
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    Well, 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. (If you don't believe me, try Googling it )
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    Tomorrow's race is the GoBowling.com 400 from Pocono Raceway. I didn't get to see the qualifying this week, but it looks like they just managed to squeeze it in around the rain that affected both practice sessions. Here's the starting line-up according to NASCAR.com: 1 Jimmie Johnson 2 Kyle Busch 3 Carl Edwards 4 Ryan Newman 5 Kurt Busch 6 Joey Logano 7 Greg Biffle 8 Marcos Ambrose 9 Denny Hamlin 10 Aric Almirola 11 Brad Keselowski 12 Jamie McMurray 13 Jeff Burton 14 Kevin Harvick 15 AJ Allmendinger 16 Clint Bowyer 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 18 Kasey Kahne 19 Juan Pablo Montoya 20 Tony Stewart 21 Paul Menard 22 Jeff Gordon 23 Travis Kvapil 24 Matt Kenseth 25 Dale Earnhardt Jr 26 Martin Truex Jr 27 Michael McDowell 28 Mark Martin 29 Casey Mears 30 David Ragan 31 David Stremme 32 Dave Blaney 33 Bobby Labonte 34 Danica Patrick 35 David Reutimann 36 J.J. Yeley 37 David Gilliland 38 Landon Cassill 39 Joe Nemechek 40 Josh Wise 41 Timmy Hill 42 Alex Kennedy 43 Tony Raines The race is Sunday, August 04 1:00 PM ET on ESPN.
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    The English language is a sponge for words from other languages, and with the Netherlands being so close to England, it's hardly surprising that some words come across. After posting the Malcolm McLaren video I looked up "Double Dutch" as it also means a language that can't be understood. According to this article it was originally a slur on the Germans and refers to High Dutch. Amongst the 'Dutch' references it mentions are: Dutch cheese; Dutch barns; Dutch ovens; Dutch courage; Dutch treat; Hollandaise sause. We do have phrases that include other nationalities eg. French fries and French toast, but there are a lot of phrases with "Dutch" in them, and for that I have no answer. BTW I noticed a few English words creeping into the commentary on the F1 video you posted ("hairpin", "oversteer" etc.) - are there many English words used in Dutch? I am also an F1 fan, so I would love to go to Hockenheimring as well. Is your number one location driving the Nordschleife at the Nürburgring?
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    Are you going to tell us where you went? I think it might be a publicity shot on an old car ride at a theme park. The one below is at Gilroy Gardens - it's not exactly the same, but it gives you an idea of what I mean. If you look over John's shoulder there appears to be another car behind and a track between the two cars. Source: themeparkreview.com It could've been shot when they filmed 'Lulu's Gone Away' at Six Flags Magic Mountain. I can only find the tiny picture below on their site: Source: www.sixflags.com/magicmountain I'd call it skipping. In British English he's using a skipping rope, in US English it's a jump rope. Get two people swinging two ropes between them and another person jumping and it's called Double Dutch . BTW. I agree with you about the Rolls Royce from '10 Million Dollar Sheriff'.
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    Thanks Roger, but I have a thicker skin than to be offended by jokey comments like the ones in Dukes (hence the smiley). It was not uncommon for US shows in the '80s to make similar comments eg. the 'Cheers' episodes surrounding John Cleese's English psychiatrist or the crooked English businessman called Robin. If you guys watched more of our shows instead of remaking them, I'm sure you'd see that it works both ways. At least the writers of 'The Big Bang Theory' have finally got it right. The following exchange comes from the episode called 'The 43 Peculiarity' when Leonard finds that Penny has an English study partner: Penny: Would you stop? Look, he just moved here from London, okay? He doesn’t really know anybody. Leonard: Oh, good, an English accent, the sexiest accent you can have. Penny: No. That’s not true. There’s French, there’s Italian. No, you’re right, it’s the best. BTW. I never understood why you guys still celebrate the Fourth of July and commemorate rejecting the best rulers your country's ever had .
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    Sadly, one of the only Englishmen to ever be on the show ended up being a bad guy. That episode also included dialog like this: "He's Duke Gaylord Duke, an Englishman." "Foreigner?" "Yeah, from England." "That's a foreigner." and "Cousin Gaylord is an Englishman." "Well, we all can't be perfect." Maybe Dukes was a racist show after all . BTW. Although Iggins (from 'Southern Comfurts') was meant to be a stereotypical English butler, Bernard Fox was actually born in Wales. Roger Blevins was played by Simon MacCorkindale. After the previous post I decided to Google the name "Roger Blevins", and quite a few police department mug-shots showed up in the image search. I also found a band from Austin, TX called 'Mingo Fishtrap' that has members named Roger Blevins Jr. and Roger Blevins Sr.
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    When he's not at his apartments in Los Angeles : Built in 1924, they still stand at 3355 Wilshire Boulevard.
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    I haven't been to one for a while as they don't have any here, but it looks like they just put "Wetherspoon" in big letters on the outside and save the "JD Wetherspoon" name for window signs, menus etc.:
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    I'm gonna answer these before I forget, although that doesn't mean I know the right answers . I'm going with: A) The Hazzard Orphanage A) dirt bikes E) white van
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    Shine I found a recording in YouTube that's over 100 years old:
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    Cooter's Garage is actually off to the left of these shots. These pictures were both taken from outside the house on the corner of Hazzard Square (sometimes used as a boarding house), roughly where the white pickup is in the picture below: Here's a shot from 'The Ghost of General Lee' that shows how the courthouse looks from Cooter's:
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    There's a well-known pub chain in the UK that's commonly known as Wetherspoon's. They have nearly 1,000 premises, and many occupy unusual buildings such as old banks, post offices and cinemas. What I didn't know until a few minutes ago is that there's a Dukes tie-in with their name. The full name of the company is JD Wetherspoon, and, according to their own website, the name Wetherspoon comes from a teacher of the chain's founder (who reportedly told him he'd never amount to anything), while the "JD" part comes from a certain J.D. Hogg. You can see the about page from their website here. From Wikipedia, here's an ex-cinema building in Liverpool: I guess it's true that you learn something new every day.
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    According to the results on www.crash.net, it looks like Jr beat JG by 0.096 seconds. Here's the top ten so you can check the math: 1. #39 Ryan Newman Stewart-Haas Racing 160 laps 2hrs 36mins 22secs 2. #48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports + 2.657s 3. #5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports + 3.183s 4. #14 Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Racing + 15.465s 5. #20 Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing + 21.579s 6. #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr Hendrick Motorsports + 22.377s 7. #24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports + 22.473s 8. #22 Joey Logano Penske Racing + 23.539s 9. #42 Juan Pablo Montoya Earnhardt Ganassi Racing + 24.510s 10. #18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing + 24.731s
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    I've looked at this question twice and I'm still stumped. Just because it made me laugh, I'm going for E) champion wrestler. It's pretty much a North American thing. There's a dance held near the end of the last year of high school, and the students vote for a prom king and queen. There was no equivalent when I was at school in the UK. Here in Ireland they hold a similar event called the "debs", but I don't think they have kings and queens. You can read more about proms on Wikipedia.
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