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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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Thanks Hoss. Why does the english language have so much 'dutch' in it's language?
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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After visiting the number two location on my list of places to visit and going home from vacation the day after I just didn't have time to update this topic.
Are you going to tell us where you went?
What is he driving? a Go-cart or a tractor? I've got no clue beside that its quite high of the ground for a go-cart.
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
How do you call it what John is doing here? Here in the Netherlands we call it 'touwtje springen', translated to english this would be 'small rope jumping'. I don't think that's translated right.
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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So, in the spirit of international diplomatic relations, my apologies as an America Hoss. Even though we can occasionally be rude (like making July Fourth jokes) those of us Americans who are of European decent know very well our roots. Sincerely, Cousin Roger
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 the only Roger to ever be on the show ended up being a bad guy.
I'm not sure what the real name of the actor was but Duke Gaylord was only pretending to be a royal Duke. His "real" name was Roger Blevins as I recall.
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."
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"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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Awesome Hoss! Stuff like this is really cool!
Is this the pub where Duke Gaylord Duke hangs out?
When he's not at his apartments in Los Angeles
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Built in 1924, they still stand at 3355 Wilshire Boulevard.
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Awesome, but why no JD in the name on front of the pubs?
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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Hazzard Sheriff's Departmentas seen from Cooter's Garage
Hazzard County Courthouse as seen from Cooter's Garage
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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I'm happy for your sake that JG had another good one. How many seconds did Junior beat him by?
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.
I don't know what a prom queen is.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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I wish I could see this.
Alice isn't sold her in the Netherlands. The episode is called 'Mel Is Hogg-Tied'.There's a short thread about the show here in the Sorrell Booke section. Sadly, the YouTube links no longer work - I'll keep an eye out for working links.
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I would've posted this earlier, but I've been listening to it three or four times since I looked up the YouTube link
.From the 1988 album 'Let It Bee':
What You Have Is Enough - Voice Of The Beehive
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Ryan Newman started from the pole and won from the pole. Jimmie Johnson started second and finished second.
You forgot Ricky Stenhouse Jr. started 25th and finished 25th
.Trevor Bayne also started 28th and finished 28th - there may be others.
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... but it was Stewart - HASS racing.
Actually, I think you'll find it's Stewart-Haas Racing
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I'm going to have to pay more attention tomorrow. I tuned in for the end of today's qualifying and could've sworn the commentator said that Ryan Newman was driving for Stewart-Hoss, and I started to worry that I should've been at Indianapolis to watch my driver
.Also remember, the race will no longer be on TNT...you go to TNT you will be watching something other than NASCAR..TNT are showing 'Rush Hour 3' with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker at that time - I know what I'll be watching
.BTW. If you do have NBCSP, you'll be able to watch the Hungarian Grand Prix at 1 PM EST.
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I've been looking at the USC Digital Library recently, viewing some fascinating pictures of Los Angeles. As well as photos, there's also a load of archived copies of the Daily Trojan newspaper, so I thought I'd search for Dukes related stuff (spurred on by Roth's TV guide listings). All of the following images are from the USC Digital Library.
1981 Nielsen ratings (I had to rearrange the layout on this one):
Rick Hurst takes some time off to answer students' questions:
Tom Wopat sings! You can put me down for tickets for a couple of the other shows as well
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Preview of the second TV movie with mention of the NAACP protests. Sadly, no one told them that Sorrell passed away six years earlier:
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Superman
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Apart from a couple of brief, heavy thunder storms, we've had two or three weeks of sunny weather here, so it got me thinking of summer songs. This is another one-hit-wonder, and it topped the UK charts for a week in 1975.
All that remains is for me to welcome you aboard Coconut Airways flight 372 to Bridgetown, Barbados.
Barbados - Typically Tropical
Just for Roth, the song was covered/re-worked in 1998 by Dutch dance band Vengaboys. Their version was called
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Garrett didn't mention that the dogs were Cubs fans ...
I wasn't aware that dogs followed baseball, although, after watching 'The Big Bang Theory', I knew they liked football:
(Leonard is wearing a huge football jersey)
Leonard: What’s wrong with a football jersey?
Sheldon: Nothing. That, however, appears to be a football cocktail dress.
Leonard: It’s the smallest size they had, except the one for dogs. I can’t believe they had one for dogs.
Sheldon: Oh, yes. Canine football fans are a common sight in Texas. Cats, however, refuse to wear sporting apparel. My sister found that out the hard way.
They were just talking about how rude it is that people get off topic in pubic forums.I'm not going to judge you on the websites you visit, but it may explain why your computer keeps getting viruses
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I agree with Roth about the first two answers (chicken and Daisy). I'm sure Amos Stigger was the crop-duster in 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough', but they used someone different here. Roth is probably right about Darcy too, but I'll go with Sam Crenshaw just to be different.
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Look'ee here!
I wonder if the person who drew this had ever seen what Bo and Luke look like, or were they just described over the phone. On another issue, I never understood why all the models of Cooter's tow truck have an all red rear section. The inside was red, but the outside was mainly white.
I forgot which episode it was but I believe it is the one where they try to kill Boss in order to get his county.
It was 'Witness for the Persecution' from season 2 that originally aired in the US on November 16, 1979. The two-part Dallas that aired the same night was from season 3, and imaginatively titled 'Mastectomy'.
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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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