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I only got the message late last night, and initially thought that it sounded like a long to go (I live more than twice as far away as CDoherty). Then, as the magnitude of the opportunity I'd be missing began to sink in, I decided to go.
Libby pretty much left us to it, and we spent several hours listening to Tom's great behind-the-scenes stories. There were stories about how stunts were done, how the cars were set up, stunts that went wrong, and the odd tidbit about the stars of the show.
Tom is such a nice guy, and really down-to-earth. I'd also like to thank Libby for opening her home to a pair of strangers.
As to the phone call, Tom's phone rang sometime between 6 and 7pm. I think CDoherty and I looked at each other in disbelief when we heard him greet the caller. It was none other than Don Pedro Colley aka. Sheriff Little, and he very generously let both of us speak to him. He also seems like a cool guy.
That leaves a lot of thanks for me to give: to Tom for his time, to Libby for letting us invade her house, to Don Pedro for talking to us, and to CDoherty for inviting me along - thanks to all of you
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Well, qualifying for the Camping World RV Sales 301 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway has just finished. I didn't see all of it, but I believe all of the top ten broke the lap record.
Jimmie Johnson failed initial inspection because of some problem with his car's side skirt and had to go through a second inspection before qualifying out of turn.
Morgan Shepherd is set to become the oldest Sprint Cup driver at the age of 71. Only eight of the other drivers had been born when he made his debut.
David Stremme had some kind of problem, but I only tuned in as he was coming back to pit lane, so I missed what was up.
Here's the provisional starting order:
1 Brad Keselowski
2 Jimmie Johnson
3 Kurt Busch
4 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
5 Kyle Busch
6 Jeff Gordon
7 Carl Edwards
8 Denny Hamlin
9 Kasey Kahne
10 Jeff Burton
11 Juan Pablo Montoya
12 Jamie McMurray
13 Matt Kenseth
14 Brian Vickers
15 Paul Menard
16 Ryan Newman
17 Tony Stewart
18 Aric Almirola
19 Kevin Harvick
20 Martin Truex Jr.
21 Clint Bowyer
22 Marcos Ambrose
23 Greg Biffle
24 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
25 David Gilliland
26 AJ Allmendinger
27 Joey Logano
28 David Reutimann
29 Casey Mears
30 David Ragan
31 Michael McDowell
32 Travis Kvapil
33 Danica Patrick
34 Bobby Labonte
35 Mike Bliss
36 Josh Wise
37 Landon Cassill
38 Ken Schrader
39 Joe Nemechek
40 Dave Blaney
41 J.J. Yeley
42 Morgan Shepherd
43 David Stremme
The race starts at 01:00 PM ET on Sunday.
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Maybe not but every time I see the obituaries I see a lot of folks in their 50s in there. (I'm 53)
But I'm not worried about it. I leave those decisions to the Good Lord.
I saw someone on TV this week say "you know you're getting old when someone your age dies and it's no longer described as a tragedy." I'd love to give them credit, but I've forgotten who it was - another sign I'm getting old
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Well, it could be the jump from the episode Hoss told me but I cant be sure. The shot isn't long enough to see if the General's rear window gets shattered. Also, I cant think of any other jump on Hazzard Square in season 3 or 4.
There were a few times when Cooter towed the General back to Hazzard Square after crashes/situations further afield. It's been a while since I've watched seasons 3 and 4, so I'm afraid I can't give you much more to go on.
Not really a Dukes of Hazzard behind the scenes but it shows a nice piece of Laramie Street.
Behind the tree's on the left side of the Courthouse in this picture was used sometimes as a hideout for criminals on the Dukes. It was used as the cotton mill in the first reunion and the coffin works in one of the episodes. I believe it was used a lot of more times but I forgot them.
Also, on the right side of the courthouse a little bit further back was Hogg's heavenly acres and the small church where Emery Potter and Maybel tried to get married twice.
Nice courthouse picture - is that the 'Reunion' Boar's Nest (below) on the right?. From memory, I think the Coffin Works appeared in three episodes. For those of y'all who haven't made it all the way through the Hazzard Square thread, you can find the section on Laramie Street (including the church and Heavenly Acres) here.
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Ok, that means I gotta search if that jump I mean was in season 3 or 4.
The fruitstall stunt you described is in 'Hughie Hogg Strikes Again', midway through season 4.
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Looking at the hood standing up my best guess is that it is from the jump over the fruitstall on Midwest Street. The one where Enos and Rosco both jump and Enos lands on the trunk of Rosco's car.
It looks like the General has light front and rear damage, plus the rear window has gone, but that doesn't narrow it down much
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Just to update y'all on the roof flaps...NASCAR has decided NOT to penalize any of the drivers for the manipulated roof flats.
Thanks for the update - I'd forgotten the possibility of penalties was hanging over all those drivers.
Y'all know how much I love NASCAR, but really wish they would be consistant with their penalties and what not...But it wouldn't be NASCAR if they were consistent with their penalties. What else do you want, right turns?
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No Flash, this must be from before the start of season 3.
I was gonna say season 1 because Rosco and Enos have jackets on, but then I spotted that Bo seems to be wearing his 'Carnival of Thrills' outfit, so it must be season 3.
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John and Tom at I believe Times Square.
I've just checked out the location, and you're right, it is Times Square. What amused me was that Google Street View shows the famous busker known as the Naked Cowboy standing where Tom and John were:
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Anyone remembers this scene? I dont. My best guess is that its from a Georgia episode when i look at the type of car and the surroundings.
I don't know but somehow it looks like a test for blowing the rear of the car like happening in 'Mary Kaye's Baby'
You're not far off, it's actually from 'Daisy's Song'. Rosco and Enos pull the patrol car across the road to block Bo and Luke in Daisy's Road Runner. After a bit of banter about being arrested, Bo hands Rosco a lit stick of dynamite and asks if he can bring it with them. Rosco gives the stick to Enos, who throws it under the patrol car with the outcome as above.
Incidentally, the patrol car that pulls out is a Dodge Monaco, while the one that blows up is an older Dodge Polara.
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I hope so too, Roger. The place isn't the same without you
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Anyone recognizes the signature? It reads something Baris I think.
That's the signature of George Barris, legendary "King of the Kustomizers". He's the man responsible for the '60s Batmobile, the Munsters' Koach, and the Beverly Hillbillies' truck amongst others. I'm not sure why his name gets associated with the General Lee - his website has a picture of the General, and ERTL made a couple of "Barris Editions" of the diecast version, but all I can find is that he may have made some replicas - he had nothing to do with the creation of the General.
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The old forum had the "Who's Online" facility too - I used/use it all the time. Even now I still find guests reading threads that I've never seen before.
I've just checked my own details, and this coming Saturday marks the third anniversary of me joining HNet - it feels like five minutes ago. We might be getting old, but if I was much younger I would have missed out on seeing Dukes when it was first shown
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I agree with you about the jumps from 'Mary Kaye's Baby' and 'High Octane', and you're probably right about Elm Street. It's the first one that I don't remember. You're right about it not being from 'Granny Annie' (no flying barrels), but I can't think where it's from.
I was sad to see the damage on the first picture, so I had a go at fixing it
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Sorry to tell you this, Hoss, but Ricky Stenhouse Jr was taken out on the last lap by his own girl friend...
He soon pushed her to one side
.I'd swear Ricky crossed the line in 10th, but I see they gave him 11th in the end - I was hoping he'd get his first top ten finish. At least he had a pretty strong race. I used to dread restrictor plate races, but now they're really good (well the second half anyway
).BTW. Your link goes to the standings. Here's the results:
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In less than two weeks...I will be seeing them in concert.
Rather you than me
.Rich Girl - Hall and Oates
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It's another Saturday night race this week (as long as there's no rain
). The 'Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola' from Daytona International Speedway starts at 07:30 PM ET on TNT.Here's the starting lineup:
1 Kyle Busch
2 Matt Kenseth
3 Clint Bowyer
4 Kasey Kahne
5 Martin Truex Jr
6 Paul Menard
7 Michael Waltrip
8 Jimmie Johnson
9 Ricky Stenhouse Jr
10 Greg Biffle
11 Danica Patrick
12 Carl Edwards
13 Tony Stewart
14 Juan Pablo Montoya
15 Brad Keselowski
16 Dale Earnhardt Jr
17 Jeff Burton
18 Joey Logano
19 Casey Mears
20 Trevor Bayne
21 Ryan Newman
22 Kurt Busch
23 Jeff Gordon
24 Denny Hamlin
25 Marcos Ambrose
26 Kevin Harvick
27 Jamie McMurray
28 David Gilliland
29 Dave Blaney
30 Aric Almirola
31 Michael McDowell
32 J.J. Yeley
33 AJ Allmendinger
34 Bobby Labonte
35 David Stremme
36 Scott Speed
37 Josh Wise
38 David Ragan
39 Terry Labonte
40 Travis Kvapil
41 David Reutimann
42 Joe Nemechek
43 Landon Cassill
Great to see Ricky starting in 9th, except that he has Jimmie Johnson in front of him this week
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A radio show I regularly listen to featured Steve Winwood in its weekly "four songs from one artist" section earlier today. This track didn't come up, but I dug it up for a listen anyway. It's the third post in this thread with the same title, but they're all different songs. I spotted the name Jennings in the writing credits, but it turned out to be Will Jennings, not Waylon.
Valerie - Steve Winwood
A few years ago Eric Prydz released a dance track called Call On Me which featured a sample from the chorus of 'Valerie' (for those of you who know the track, I picked a video with a still image rather than the aerobics one
).While we're on Steve Winwood I thought I'd include another track from when he was in a group called Traffic. I picked it because just this morning I was reading about a man called Charles Hatfield. Nearly 100 years ago he was offered $10,000 by the San Diego city council to use his secret mixture of 23 chemicals to make it rain and fill the Moreno Dam reservoir. It subsequently rained for most of January 1916, the resulting floods caused $3.5 million worth of damage, and the council refused to pay up. In 1956 his story was told in the Burt Lancaster movie 'The Rainmaker'. I don't think there's any connection between Charles Hatfield and this song, other than the title, but I couldn't resist the coincidence.
Rainmaker - Traffic (Live in Santa Monica 1972)
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from the episode 'Luke's Love Story'
Thanks for this one - I have a soft spot for Frankie
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average
(the mathematical mean)
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I wrote of Bo as the blond man and Luke as the brown (not dark) one... I suppose "blond and brown man" means man with blond hair and man with brown hair. I'm not English, as you... so I'm confused
In italian there's no reason to say brown-haired man, 'cause brown is usually referred to hair and not to skin, as blond is referred to hair and not to skin...Some English out there to solve this doubt??? LOL
Oops! I meant Brown instead of dark.I just searched something in google. When I type Blonde, I see blonde haired men, when I type Brown man I find dark skin colored men and when I type Brown haired man I find wel... Brown haired men.
So i think it is wrong here to say Brown man.
This is my opinion as someone who has English as their first language. "Blonde" is a female with blonde hair, the male equivalent is "blond". I wouldn't use "brown" on its own to describe someone as it's likely to be taken as a not very politically correct reference to skin color. If you're wanting to refer to hair color, your choice is either "brown-haired" or "brunet"/"brunette" (male/female). Hope this helps.
i1976, is Catherine Burns a reference to Catherine Bach and George Burns? I seem to remember vaguely they we're on a show together ones.I'd never heard of it before, but you're right. Catherine was a guest on George Burns' 1984 TV special, 'How to Live to be 100' (which he just managed). Here's the TV Guide for that week:
I found a short clip on YouTube. NB. The first live bit is about 48 seconds in, and the rest is a mixture of stills and blank screens. Cathy does aerobics with some cheerleaders:
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I know that Hoss, but I mean the pic was made between or after filming so why was the guy still holding the boom mic?
Sorry, I misunderstood you. It looks like there's a camera on the left, so maybe they're doing a run-through and getting sound levels. Alternatively, it could be held on some sort of mechanical support arm, but I can find very few pictures where the boom arm isn't being held directly by a person.
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I wonder why the mic was just hanging there. I always though some guy was holding it but outside filmig I don't see why anyone would do that.
They definitely used those boom mics for outside filming because they're visible in a couple of scenes. Both of these pictures are from the Bloopers thread.
In the first from 'Carnival of Thrills' you can see the mic centered at the bottom:
In this one from 'Hazzard Connection' you can see the mic at the top right and its shadow next to Rosco:
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I bet that you must have felt like a child in a candy store. By the way, did you enter it via the window or did the doors open?
It looks like the pushbar goes into the hole under the bumper, this was in the series only for jump cars.
Also, aint the colour a bit too bright?
Anyway, If your a Dukes fans its amazing to see one.
The owner wouldn't let me go through the window. Probably just as well seeing as the door locks were still sticking up.
It wasn't an exact replica because it had a black interior, but is was the way the owner wanted it, and I was grateful for the chance to sit inside.
That museum is great, not so much American muscle cars but the collection is great.They have a red room, it is filled with about 30 red cars varying from The Lamborghini Countach to a Triumph Spitfire and BMWs.
They have two very rare cars which were from the 20s, unfortunately there was no information included unlike all the other cars but they looked to be a Duesenberg and a Bugatti but i'm not sure.
There were a lot of Ferrari's, some Corvettes, Two beetles, Lotus cars, Fords, Mr Bean's Mini, a BMW 3 wheeler, 3 Tanks, Volkswagen's, 50s Cadillac De Ville and an American Ambulance like the one use in 'Deputy Dukes' but in red.
Overall I spend many hours in there as there was just a lot to see, From American to European cars and even some Russian ones.
If your into racing you should also pay a visit to Beaulieu, their collection is also very good for racing cars.
I've seen pictures of the red room - it's quite impressive.
I have been to Beaulieu, but it was about the time Dukes started ie. over 30 years ago - you can imagine how cool a monorail was to a small child in the late '70s
. My brother went a few years ago, so it's probably time for me to go again.The show I really want to get to is the Goodwood Festival of Speed (again in the south of England). They have road and racing cars of all ages and from all over the world, along with top racing drivers, and some of the old cars go racing!
Just Another Day In Ireland
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I'm English and grew up in the UK, but have lived in Ireland for nearly 10 years.
I'll have to leave CDoherty to answer your question about the General Lee because I didn't see it.
We discussed so much that I'll have to try and remember all the things that Tom said. I'll sure we'll be posting some of them, so watch this space
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