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He hit the wall pretty hard and his car caught fire. He jumped out quickly before reaching in to pull the fire extinguisher. It really was a bad day for HMS - Jimmie came home as top driver in 28th. I was pleased to see Ricky running inside the top ten for a while, but he (and a couple of others) pitted just before Jamie McMurray's tire blew, so it put him out of sequence. I'd love a top ten finish before too long.

I see that now Lewis Hamilton has changed teams, Tony Stewart is doing his Mobil 1 commercials with Lewis's former team mate, Jenson Button: I'm hoping they do one where Jenson gets the upper hand, because he really does compete in triathlons, and does very well in them.

Thanks for sharing - I've never seen it before. From the YouTube comments it looks like it may have been uploaded by the boy in the film, but I'd like to know a little more about it.

Here's a UK commercial for Somersby Cider where the launch is promoted like a new technical device. The main ingredient of cider may give you a clue to which company they are having a dig at .

Hey, Garrett. It sounds like you enjoyed watching some men with sticks hit a ball around a field yesterday, but it doesn't excuse you from your NASCAR duties . Maybe it was seeing your drivers in 17th and 29th that put you off writing up the qualifying. I'm happy with Ricky's 15th, although it's a shame that Tony Stewart got in the middle to split up all the Juniors . Sunday's Quicken Loans 400 race at the Michigan International Speedway is at 01:00 PM ET, and will be on TNT. 1 Carl Edwards 2 Kurt Busch 3 Kasey Kahne 4 Paul Menard 5 Aric Almirola 6 Joey Logano 7 Austin Dillon 8 Matt Kenseth 9 Kyle Busch 10 Juan Pablo Montoya 11 Denny Hamlin 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr 13 Martin Truex Jr 14 Tony Stewart 15 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 16 Brad Keselowski 17 Jimmie Johnson 18 Jeff Burton 19 Greg Biffle 20 Bobby Labonte 21 Kevin Harvick 22 Mark Martin 23 Marcos Ambrose 24 Casey Mears 25 Trevor Bayne 26 David Gilliland 27 Clint Bowyer 28 Jamie McMurray 29 Jeff Gordon 30 Michael McDowell 31 David Ragan 32 AJ Allmendinger 33 David Reutimann 34 David Stremme 35 Ryan Newman 36 Dave Blaney 37 Danica Patrick 38 Josh Wise 39 Ken Schrader 40 J.J. Yeley 41 Travis Kvapil 42 Joe Nemechek 43 Mike Bliss

Welcome back to full-time participation, CD. I hope the exams went well. This might not mean anything to our friends across The Pond, or to someone your age, but when I saw the thread title I thought of this character .

I was watching an episode of the '70s comedy 'Taxi' last night when one of the drivers quoted this as one of the things his father used to say to him. When it was pointed out that George Bernard Shaw said it, it prompted one of the other drivers to ask "Your father was George Bernard Shaw?"

Thanks for your comments. I'm sure Hazzard Square used to be Roger's favorite thread - he's so fickle . I never cared much for the guy on the right. I always thought his acting was a little wooden .

Thanks for the extra info.

When you say "not a Warner Brothers General Lee", do you mean not from the show, or do you mean not one of the cars that Warner Bros built in-house (the Veluzats built a lot of cars used in the show)? Either way, many of the early Generals had backup lights. I have a screengrab of a General with an R/T badge on the grill, but can't remember whether I ever saw one on the back. The lack of CB antenna and license plate would suggest it's not from the show.

I'd probably just call it a tin bath. In 'Officer Daisy Duke', Bo and Luke are arguing in the kitchen when Luke says "Another thing, the bathtub ring is disgusting. And them blond hairs of yours in the drain don't do one thing...". A drain would suggest a bathroom.

It's from the Reunion movie. The bank became Mama Max's Development Corporation, and the text on the window says "Real Estate". See the 2nd, 3rd and 4th pictures in this post from the Hazzard Square thread.

Are you sure about that?

The picture you posted was behind the scenes of 'Dukescam Scam' in season 4. I used a similar picture (minus the sunglasses ) in the Hazzard Square thread.

I have to admit that I only had half an eye on most of the race because it clashed with the Montreal Grand Prix, but it did feel like there were more commercial breaks than previous races. There were exactly the same number of commercial breaks during the grand prix as usual - none! I was disappointed that Ricky seemed to lose about five places at each of the final cautions, but he did manage to beat (or should I say pass ) his girlfriend with about two laps to go.

As Garrett said, this week it's the Party in the Poconos 400. The race is at 1:00 PM ET on Sunday. Garrett also mentioned that the qualifying had been washed out, so the starting lineup is based on current points: 1 Jimmie Johnson 2 Carl Edwards 3 Clint Bowyer 4 Matt Kenseth 5 Kevin Harvick 6 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 7 Kasey Kahne 8 Kyle Busch 9 Paul Menard 10 Brad Keselowski 11 Jeff Gordon 12 Aric Almirola 13 Greg Biffle 14 Mark Martin 15 Martin Truex Jr. 16 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 17 Denny Hamlin 18 AJ Allmendinger 19 Tony Stewart 20 Kurt Busch 21 Joey Logano 22 Jamey McMurray 23 Ryan Newman 24 Jeff Burton 25 Juan Pablo Montoya 26 Marcos Ambrose 27 Casey Mears 28 David Ragan 29 Bobby Labonte 30 Danica Patrick 31 David Gilliland 32 Dave Blaney 33 David Stremme 34 David Reutimann 35 JJ Yeley 36 Josh Wise 37 Landon Cassill 38 Timmy Hill 39 Travis Kvapil 40 Joe Nemechek 41 Michael McDowell 42 Jason Leffler 43 Scott Riggs While I was looking for the lineup, I came across this interesting article: Ranking the 10 Greatest Mustaches in NASCAR History Garrett, can you guess which driver this quote is about?: "Long before [he] began to turn gray, long before he briefly sported a goatee and a shaved head, long before he began to look like a young(er) Jeff Foxworthy, he was just a kid in his early 20s with a terrible mustache."

The new Axalta paint scheme looks good with flames down the side: Paint scheme preview: Pocono, Iowa and Texas

Thanks Roger. BTW, just in case you're interested, the winners were: VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Carrie Underwood - Blown Away MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Blake Shelton - Sure Be Cool If You Did FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Miranda Lambert - Mama's Broken Heart GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Lady Antebellum - Downtown DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Florida Georgia Line - Cruise BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Florida Georgia Line - Cruise COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Jason Aldean with Luke Bryan and Eric Church - The Only Way I Know, from 2012 CMA Awards CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR: Miranda Lambert - Over You from 2012 CMT Artists of the Year

It was probably the CMT Awards. I couldn't find the clip where they discuss Paris Jackson, but I did find a short clip that includes John Schneider, Nelly, and Larry The Cable Guy: http://www.insideedition.com/videos/1530-on-the-cmt-red-carpet

Don't forget that it's the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend - I thought I'd mention it as it's on at the US friendly time of 2.00 PM ET on Sunday (that's actually the time the race starts, not when they begin thinking about starting the engines). They had rain before first practice today, and there may be rain for qualifying and the race, and I hope there is. The rain-delayed race of 2011 was one of the most exciting races of recent years. The circuit has straights where the drivers hit 200 mph, a 45 mph hairpin bend and the infamous "Wall of Champions" that has ended the races of many top drivers in the past.

Here it is: The original was a #1 hit in the UK and Ireland back in 1980:

I've just Googled "Jim Hogg Cigars" to see if they're real. It looks like this is a genuine poster from the 1920s, although James Stephen "Big Jim" Hogg (20th Governor of Texas) died in 1906. Believe it or not, he named his daughter Ima Hogg (rumors that she had a sister called Ura are untrue). Ima and her brothers were more like Abraham Lincoln Hogg rather than Boss: when oil was discovered on their land in 1918, the Hoggs did not believe that the oil money was rightfully theirs, as it had come from the land and not hard work, and they were determined to use it for the good of Texas.

Charles M. Schulz sure did know how to write a good quote. I like this one: "I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong." or how about this one? "No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!" I know Steven Wright is a comedian rather than an author, but I always liked this quote: "You know how it feels when you're leaning back on a chair, and you lean too far back, and you almost fall over backwards, but then you catch yourself at the last second? I feel like that all the time." But then we are talking about a man who said this: "I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it."

Well it looks like Brad got away with a six point penalty as predicted. NASCAR also fined crew chief Paul Wolfe $25,000. Penske Racing said Brad's car "experienced a part failure during Sunday's Dover race (that) resulted in the car's front end being too low when presented for postrace inspection." They do not plan to appeal the penalties. Full story here.