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  1. Well Hoss if you missed the last fifty or so laps tonight, you missed the most exciting part of the race. Not that that really says anything...

    I actually missed about 100 laps. Thanks for updating me. I see Ricky made up a few places and got a lap back, but still finished a lap down.

    The announcers said that if he were playing baseball, his batting average would be .429. Is that awesome or is it awesome? ;)

    Sorry, I have no idea what this means.

    (Well Hoss lucky for you, my internet automatically tells me when I miss spell words...HA HA)

    Is it an interactive course in witchcraft, or do you mean "misspell"? ;)

  2. Thanks Garrett. It's only a cold - I'm on the coughing/sneezing day today :(.

    Hope you had a good birthday outing.

    Sorry, I missed that Jeff Gordon info. Seven hundred consecutive starts is pretty impressive.

    I have the race on now, but I dont know how much I'll get to see. No doubt you'll have a summary posted when I wake up :).

  3. For some reason NASCAR.com seemed to be hiding the link to the qualifying results of the Bojangles' Southern 500 last night. They were available from other sources, but I wanted to check them.

    Kurt Busch has rebounded from last week's accident at Talladega to take pole. I'm sure Garrett will be happy to see Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon in the top ten. Here's the whole lineup:

    1) Kurt Busch

    2) Jimmie Johnson

    3) Kyle Busch

    4) Kasey Kahne

    5) Martin Truex Jr.

    6) Denny Hamlin

    7) Matt Kenseth

    8) Jeff Gordon

    9) Greg Biffle

    10) Kevin Harvick

    11) Jeff Burton

    12) Juan Pablo Montoya

    13) Clint Bowyer

    14) Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

    15) Paul Menard

    16) Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    17) Carl Edwards

    18) Aric Almirola

    19) Casey Mears

    20) Tony Stewart

    21) Ryan Newman

    22) Mark Martin

    23) Bobby Labonte

    24) Marcos Ambrose

    25) Jamie McMurray

    26) Brad Keselowski

    27) Regan Smith

    28) Travis Kvapil

    29) David Gilliland

    30) Joey Logano

    31) David Ragan

    32) Landon Cassill

    33) David Reutimann

    34) Josh Wise

    35) Michael McDowell

    36) Scott Speed

    37) Dave Blaney

    38) Mike Bliss

    39) David Stremme

    40) Danica Patrick

    41) Timmy Hill

    42) JJ Yeley

    43) Joe Nemechek

    The race is Fox tonight at 6:45 PM ET. I'm feeling a little under the weather, so I'm not sure I'll make it to end, given the lateness of night races in my time zone :(.

  4. Today's comparison was rather unusual. Normally the choice is between two versions of the same song by different artists, but today it was between two versions of the same song by the same artist.

    Back in 1974, Gil Scott-Heron wrote 'Your Daddy Loves You' for his fourth album, 'Winter in America'. This is a very stripped-back version with just keyboards and Brian Jackson's flute.

    He revisted the song in 1980 for the album 'Real Eyes'. This version is possibly a little more mellow, and has more in the way of backing.

    It was amazing how many of the callers were fathers who used to sing/play this to their daughters. One even likened the task of trying to choose between these two versions to being asked to choose between his daughters. Needless to say, this one was won by Gil Scott-Heron :).

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    That looks like the same bad wig on Uncle Jesse's stand-in that appeared in 'Mason Dixon's Girls' :):

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    HossC, do you know in which season they filmed where? If so i'd like to help you with these threads as filming locations are one of my favorite things, I even read the whole Hazzard Square Thread.

    So far i know:

    Season 1.1 = Covington/Conyers, Georgia

    Season 1.2 = ?

    Season 2 = Disney's Golden Oaks Ranch

    Season 3 = Lake Sherwood

    Season 4 = ?

    Season 5,6,7 = Valencia Oaks Movie Ranch

    Well done for making it all the way through the Hazzard Square thread :). I'm not sure of all of the changeovers (CDoherty probably knows them better than me). You seem to have it mostly right. Here's a rough guide:

    Season 1, episodes 1-5 were filmed in and around Covington and Conyers, Georgia, with a trip to Atlanta in 'Daisy's Song'.

    Season 1, episodes 6 onward used Warner Brothers' back lot, Burbank for Hazzard Square and some other locations.

    Season 1, episodes 6-13, and season 2 used Disney's Golden Oak Ranch and surrounding roads for Boar's Nest/Duke Farm and some locations, as well as the roads around Lake Sherwood.

    Season 3 and 4 were mainly filmed at Lake Sherwood on the ranch (Boar's Nest and Duke Farm moved there) and the surrounding roads.

    Season 5, 6 and 7 were mainly filmed at Valencia Oaks Movie Ranch.

    I think there was some cross-over between Lake Sherwood and Valencia Oaks.

    Other locations around (what is now) Santa Clarita, Oxnard, Indian Dunes etc. were also used.

    I have pretty much all the screengrabs/maps I need to cover the Lake Sherwood area, it's just a question of picking a starting point and writing all the text to go with the pictures.

  6. Roth_Potter said:
    I gave that buidling a good look and it seems it's just the back of the Boar's Nest with some new signage and an added entrance to the side of the building.

    I came to the same conclusion myself. It looks like the back of the Boar's Nest when they were filming near Lake Sherwood. I think the paint shop in a later episode also uses the back of the Boar's Nest ('The Law and Jesse Duke'?). I had planned to cover the Lake Sherwood area in the Hazzard Square thread, but it's such a big subject it may deserve a thread of its own.

  7. Sarcastic, me ;).

    If NASCAR had published an article about their new car with the differences highlighted, then fair enough. It was the way they made their front page story look like some major breakthrough that amused me.

    With regards to the Kenseth decision, that sounds like a fairer punishment. I wish NASCAR could get it right in the first place instead of dragging in on for two or three weeks after the event. I wonder if the engine supplier will pick up the fines after they apologized for supplying the underweight rod. BTW. Kenseth will now receive credit for the win at Kansas toward eligibility for a wild-card position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

  8. I think that the reduced penalties are more appropriate, although some of the comments I've read seem to question whether the two race suspension should include the All-Star race. What do you think, Garrett? It's interesting that the comments section of NASCAR's website still isn't working.

    While I was on NASCAR.com earlier, I spotted the front page story Space age for the race age. The story is about NASCAR using carbon fiber for the hoods and deck lids on their new cars as if it's some kind of new wonder material. The "Space Age" is generally acknowledged to have started in 1957, and carbon fiber came along a year later. The first F1 car to have a chassis made from carbon fiber was in 1981. Well done NASCAR - your new cars are only about 30 years behind cutting edge technology ;).

  9. Well done for spotting the Duke Farm, Roth, it's only on-screen for a few seconds.

    It's very hard to spot locations in the movie as most of the scenes are at night. I'm sure that the "Autohenge" picture (the one with the stacked buses) shows the Boar's Nest covered with even more hubcaps than usual. When Chevy and Demi are running away, the explosion briefly illuminates the rocks behind it. I agree that I saw no sign of the building exploding, just some barrels.

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    The long shots of the bridge and the mansion clearly use mattes to make the location seem more remote and barren.

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    NothingButTrouble3.jpg

    The road they drive along just before they reach the mansion for the first time looks familiar from Dukes (especially with an old Dodge Monaco on it).

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  10. Hi Melissa, welcome to HNet.

    I believe you guys just call the show 'Hazzard', but your theme music is really catchy ('La Ballata di Bo e Luke').

    I think that i1976 is the only Italian member who's on here regularly, but there may be others.

  11. I have to say that I'm a little disappointed with 13th. Ricky started the race poorly, and was down in 41st place for a while, but he came back for some strong top ten running. It's a shame that he got the pitlane speeding penalty, but he came back well.

    I haven't always been a fan of restrictor plate racing, even 'Dega, with its two-by-two format (see my comments from last year). The aerodynamic changes they've made this year made for much better racing, and I was on the edge of my seat for virtually the whole time after the restart following the rain delay - just my opinion as Garrett would say ;).

    Just to prove my earlier post wrong, I took this screengrab after the restart;

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    Little did I realize that I'd be posting this one at the end:

    DavidRaganLeaderboard3.jpg

    I think my buttermilk's going to accompanied by a large slice of humble pie tonight :).

  12. Nice one Hoss...though Jeff Gordon led a lap too today. What about him? ;) LOL

    I thought about, but it's not such a rarity. I wish I'd moved quicker when Ricky was leading :).

    It may be an old joke, but I liked it when the commentator (sorry, not sure which one) described Ricky and Danica's relationship as "speed dating" :).

  13. ...except I wouldn't be surprised if Boss hired someone to steal a truckload at some point in the series.

    Boss handed over $10,000 for $100,000 of stolen TV sets in 'Road Pirates' (which he never received). There was "a whole truckload of recreation equipment" in 'Return of the Ridge Raiders', but it didn't go into detail - there could have been a TV in there.

  14. Well the race is on right now...earlier than what I thought it was going to be on.

    I missed the first eight laps, but I don't think I missed much action.

    After moaning about the paint scheme changes yesterday, I think Jeff Gordon's car is easier to spot than usual. Scott Speed's car looks almost all red from the side - coupled with his number, it's getting close to Lightning McQueen :).

  15. Though don't understand why they show Danica driving the number 34 car when she normally drives number 10? Or perhaps my memory is fading...LOL

    I bet Roger would be wondering what had happened to David Ragan too :). David Ragan's car is already shown on that page - what they forgot to say was that Danica's driving the #34 in the Nationwide race (if you look carefully there are differences between the car outlines). I only discovered the truth when I found this page:

    Danica Patrick to run in Talladega Nationwide race

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