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It was Cannonball time again earlier today. This year the cars all parked up in a makeshift car park after some good burnouts up the hill. Several of this years' entries were the same as last year, so I've just included some of the new additions. Quite a few of the drivers/passengers dressed up for the occasion, like this smart Polizei officer in an Audi and Chewbacca in a Maserati. Some other costumes, not shown here, included The Blues Brothers, Top Gear's The Stig and some NYC Police. Some of the cars also dressed up. How about a leopard print Rolls Royce or flower power stretched limo? The Maserati ambulance didn't look very practical, but did include some handy livestock advice above the grille . The were a few US cars again this year, although not as many as the website had promised. The ones that did make it included a couple of Corvettes, a Hummer, a 2006 Mustang, a mid-70s Camaro and this '69 Camaro with a huge blower (similar to Vin Diesel's Charger in 'The Fast and the Furious'). I got to sit in the orange Lamborghini, and it was a bit cramped for my height. I told the owner that I liked the color, but it was the wrong sort of car . Finally, I'll leave you with the Gardai talking to an unmasked Batman. As the cars left to make their way to the hotel he came down the street revving the engine in his Ferrari (he was driving very slowly and not doing burnouts). He was pulled over and given a breath test, which he passed. I guess it's not every day that they can say they stopped Batman!

... is all my brain and body need. To misquote Meatloaf, one out of three aint bad.

They were both new names to me, but I've enjoyed looking them up on YouTube. I think I prefer Del McCoury out of the two. The first track I tried was Rain And Snow by The Del McCoury Band & The Chieftains. As one of the comments says, bluegrass isn't that far removed from the reels of traditional Irish music, so the two worked well together. Maybe a few more bluegrass bands could try adding a bodhrán . The backing reminded me of by the Soggy Bottom Boys from 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'. I probably shouldn't be surpised as the lead vocalist, Dan Tyminski, lists Del McCoury among his influences.You asked if anyone likes any other bluegrass groups. The only one I listen to regularly is Hayseed Dixie. Don't be put off by their gimmicky name: they're great musicians with a sense of humor. They're probably best known for doing very good bluegrass covers of rock songs (they call it rockgrass) such as Motörhead's . Their albums also include some of their own compositions and even a - who'd have thought that would work so well?

Y'all may have heard this at the opening ceremony of the Olympics: The 'Grime' music genre, a development of UK garage/British hip hop, emerged from an area of East London very close to the Olympic Park.

I'll keep this one simple:

I should've taken the hint with the AC/DC song you posted last week. So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star - The Byrds

Great, because it looks like ... It will never die. Y'all may remember this one from 'Christine'.

If we're role-playing, can I be ... or at least ... I saw Amy performing live on TV earlier today. I must get some more of her music; she's really talented!

I'm going with Enos too.

I wasn't finished with the last theme. I know ...

That's fine with me because ...

Welcome to HNet. Be sure to share some pictures of the General if you win the auction .

I don't know how many times the stunt was performed, but the front of the General looks quite battered as it makes its jump. If the picture looks familiar, it may be because an almost identical shot was used for the Facebook "Jump Day" post on Wednesday. I captured this one back in May, but several of the other screengrabs here were done just a few hours before the Facebook picture appeared. This one looks to be just a couple of frames earlier. I'd like to say it was all planned, but we're not that good - it's just a coincidence, and I know that Roger likes them! Maybe this last picture belongs in the bloopers thread, but if you freeze-frame the landing you can see the two occupants are wearing brown crash helmets. You can also see what happens when Charger meets tarmac. There was a good bit of location switching for this jump. Most of it was filmed on Agua Dulce Canyon Road, but the "Dip" sign before the jump was on West Potrero Road near Lake Sherwood (I will get around to covering West Potrero Road properly, I promise). I haven't been able to identify the dip itself, but the spot where the speakers fall off looks like East Carlisle Road. Watch the landing carefully - the speakers initially stay on, and only fall off when the we switch to a different camera (and location).

I have to thank CDoherty for indirectly helping me find this location. We were discussing somewhere nearby as the possible filming location for another episode when I decided to have a virtual spin around the area in Street View. I was mainly looking at the hills in the background as these tend to change least over time. As I made my way west along Agua Dulce Canyon Road I spotted a familiar outline in the background: The reason I recognized it is that it's another screengrab from my "unknown" files that's been bugging me for ages. It appeared in the scene where the General jumps the hay cart in 'People's Choice'. Here's a close-up of the hay cart looking in the other direction. The roadside scenery has changed a bit over the years, but I'm pretty sure the camera was about here. There's a better view of the background hills from the other side of the hay cart. The length of the shadows indicates that this was filmed a little later in the day. I'm not sure if this location was used again (you can bet I'll find another great scene in two weeks time!), so while we're here I'll mention that it's very close to Vasquez Rocks. I don't remember them appearing in Dukes, but they famously appeared in 'Star Trek: The Original Series' (when Kirk attacked the Gorn) and 'Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey' (partly as a parody of the 'Star Trek' scene), as well as many other TV shows and movies (click on the link above and there's a link to a list of productions about halfway down). The Kirk/Gorn scene even made it into this week's Google Doodle that celebrated 46 years of 'Star Trek'.

Those of you who saw last week's update of my Double Zero artwork may have guessed that Lucifer would be next on my list. I used the updated body shape from the Double Zero, but also modified the decals, scoops and rear wing. In my original version I had the rear wheels too close together. This detail, along with many others, has now been corrected. Y'all may have noticed that I've added a few extra decals this time. For some reason the car seems to have started out with real company names on the stickers (unlike the fake ones that appear in later seasons), but they were then covered over for the close-ups. Unfortunately, the car is gloss black and the paint used to cover the decals is matt. Still, it could be worse; they used the same matt black paint to cover the decals on Cooter's green and yellow car! I had to use a bit of guesswork for the company names because, with the exception of "Crane Cams", they're only visible in the long shots. The "Crane Cams" logo actually seems to visible after the others have gone. The top line of grabs below shows the decals visible, while the lower line shows them covered.

We've had a couple of this type of blooper before. While Amy is trying to control Lucifer during the test run in 'Luke's Love Story' you can briefly see a camera strapped to the right side of the car. I need three pictures for this one. In 'Arrest Jesse Duke' the General mysteriously goes missing between shots. We first see the raised General as Luke roars out of Cooter's garage. Yet, when Boss and Hughie discover the patrol cars and Caddy have been stripped the General is nowhere in sight, even though we get a clear view of Cooter's. Then, in the next shot, we see Luke and Daisy drive across the road from Cooter's to negotiate with Boss and Hughie.

This was way before I got to see any NASCAR. Also, just like they used to do on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?', you've eliminated the two answers I'd provisionally ruled out . I'll guess at #28 Hardees, even though I'm not sure what Hardees do (unlike BK, they certainly don't have any stores in Ireland!).

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Don't worry, you're safe with those . You can always use the "Search this Thread" option just below the top page numbers if you want to check whether a song has already been posted. I should've posted this one at the end of last week, but it's still appropriate: I also have this track with the same name ... September - Jean Michel Jarre ... although this is dedicated to Dulcie September, a South African anti-apartheid political activist who was assassinated in Paris in 1988.

You're welcome, MaryAnne . Just let me hear some of that ...

This is off-topic, but there is a motorsport link, and I thought the story was worth sharing. Anyone who follows Champ Cars/CART racing may remember an Italian driver called Alex Zanardi. He competed in Formula 1 between 1991 and 1994 before switching to the North American series. He won the Champ Car championship twice for Chip Ganassi Racing in 1997 and 1998. After a brief return to F1 he was taking part in a 2001 Champ Car World Series race in Germany when he was involved in a horrific accident that resulted in the loss of both of his legs. Alex wasn't content with his artificial legs, so he designed and built his own. He also returned to motor racing in a car adapted with hand controls. The reason I'm bringing this up now is that earlier today he claimed a gold medal at the Paralympics in the 16-kilometre H4 handcycling time trial (he won by 27 seconds!). Ironically, the event took place at Brands Hatch, a motor racing circuit in the south east of England where he competed in one of his early Formula 3000 races back in 1991. He's in action again on Friday. You can read more here.

It's been a while since anyone added to this thread, and no one took the bait to post the Bob Dylan song I hinted at in 'Musical Chairs' the other day, so here it is: Hurricane - Bob Dylan This is the full eight and a half minute version. You can read the story behind the song here.

From 'Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey': Somewhere I still have the 12" picture disc like the one in !