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I should've gone with my gut instinct and said Donna Fargo, but it's too late now
.Here's a quick one for y'all. When I was reading about the history of Los Angeles the other day, one of the contibutors said that his parents took him to the famous Brown Derby restaurant for his 7th birthday in 1957. One of the famous diners his parents pointed out to him was the lady below, and I knew I recognized her name from Dukes. Can you name either the actress or the part she played when she guest-starred in Dukes? She would have been around 50 years old when she was spotted at the Brown Derby.
I'll narrow it down to a season if y'all get stuck.
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Here's a catchy song from 1998 from a band that turned out to be a one hit wonder:
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
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And just so I won't disappoint you...here is my other favorite song on "10"
All five members of NKOTB on an elevated platform in a video titled 'Crash' ... and then it turns out to be a song - of course I'm disappointed
.Lullaby - The Cure
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Isn't 'Jealous (Blue)' two words? I suppose we've still got 'Crash' to look forward to!
This group called their best-of album 'Supergrass is 10' because it was a retrospective of their first 10 years. It makes far more sense than calling your album '10' because when it's your 6th studio album
.Alright - Supergrass
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Here is another GREAT song off of the New Kids on the Block's new album "10".
I see the boys still shy away from the writing side of the business. Donnie Wahlberg was one of three writers on 'Miss You More' and Joey McIntyre was one of four writers on 'Back to Life' and 'Now or Never', but that's it. Two of the writers on 'Survive You' are from the soon-to-split-up British band JLS (they came second in the 2008 series on 'The X-Factor'), and a third member of JLS co-wrote 'We Own the Night'.
Here's some proper music from 1964. The performance is taken from the popular (and still running) children's TV show 'Blue Peter'. You just don't see dancing like this anymore
.You Were Made For Me - Freddie & The Dreamers
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Oh no you didn't go and make fun of the New Kids...well just for that here is their latest single.
I quite liked the first 45 seconds of the video, but then they went and spoiled it by starting the song. Remix (I Don't Like The)
.Love Me Like You - The Magic Numbers
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I don't think you get this comparison idea - you're meant to pick two versions of the same song by different artists. Pick one of yours, and I'll put up Weird Al. (I know the contest is unfair, but I am giving you a chance to pick which NKOTB version gets beaten
.)The White Stuff - "Weird Al" Yankovic
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What made it worse was the announcers on TNT all siding with Menard...feeling bad for him.. Saying it is the end of the race, late in the day, he's frustrated and tired of being run into.
As if Jeff Gordon isn't.
Surely "the best driver on the track" doesn't get frustrated and tired
.I'm sorry I left out the Gordon/Menard incident, but I missed the start of it and only caught the end of the replay.
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This was originally an Allen Toussaint song, but I'm going for the cover by Little Feat's Lowell George from his solo album, 'Thanks I'll Eat It Here'.
What Do You Want the Girl To Do - Lowell George
For those of you who've read my Tower of Song thread, you'll know that I listen to a radio show that pits two versions of the same song against each other. This song was featured last week, and the other version was the one below (although I could only find the live version at a decent quality):
What Do You Want the Boy To Do - Bonnie Raitt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owy9K0Vdn28
I couldn't put this one first because it doesn't have "girl" in the title
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A lot of the credit for the friendly atmosphere is down to MeadowMufn and her original deputies. As time goes on, we all play a part, but Mufn has been there when someone crosses the line. Even the HNet Facebook page doesn't have nearly the same feel to it.
I think a lull is to be expected when Dukes isn't on TV. Facebook and Twitter have also changed the way that some people get their information nowadays, but a forum is different. I'm currently engrossed in a fascinating thread about the history of Los Angeles and its buildings on another forum. The wealth of information that the body of contributors bring to it is better than any book or single-authored website could ever be, and the same is true of this forum.
I've just passed my third anniversary on HNet, and I think there have only been about five occasions where there was a 24 hour period with no new posts, and many days there are a dozen or more. I don't think that's bad going after 14 years online. We have to admit that, especially since the series came out on DVD, most of the regular questions people have about Dukes have now been answered. Added to that, forums always have "lurkers" who read posts and don't bother signing up. I've done it myself on other forums unless I feel the need to contribute. Including non-members, there are regularly between 100 and 150 people on the forum during US daytime - that's not far off what it was when I joined (admittedly I missed the early years, and the period when the movies came out).
It's great to see that Roger's restarted the trivia thread - I only gave up asking questions due to lack of participation. That's an area where we do need signed-in members.
Overall, I don't see the future as doom and gloom. If someone started airing the show again, it would certainly help, but as long as the current members hang around (and we pick up a few more along the way), we should be OK.
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Here in the Netherlands they are all gone since 2009, I cant find anything about when they started in the netherlands though they are all gone and changed into something called 'ToysXL' as the stores are quite big.
I found an article on DutchNews.nl (it's in English) that says they pulled out of the Netherlands in 2009. It also says they were active in the country since 1983, even though Toys R Us' website claims they only started international expansion in 1984, starting with Canada.
Ever heard of the Wheelstander or dragster made for the last episode? It was never used on the show as probably everyone knows.
Apologies for the hideous name-drop, but Tom Sarmento showed CDoherty and myself some pictures of this car at the weekend. I promise that I won't go on about meeting CDoherty
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Want to watch the Dukes vs. the Waltons? Click
!There's some Family Feud screengrabs in the trivia thread - you can see them here.
I always thought Toys R Us opened somewhere in 2001, but thats probably because it opened its first store in 2001 over here in the Netherlands. I never heard of it before anyway.The Toys R Us name first appeared in the US in 1957 (thanks Wikipedia
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What does tooling mean by the way?
I'm assuming they mean either the molds for the parts or a machine that assembles the models, but as they're made in China they may be assembled by hand using cheap labor.
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I mentioned in the first post of this thread that Autoworld were planning to release a 1:18 version of Daisy's Road Runner this summer. The latest news I can find says that the tooling needs to be fixed, so the provisional release date has been put back to the end of 2013. If I get a confirmed date I'll post it here.
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I agree with Roth that it was Mickey Gilley.
I think 1982 would've been a great time to employ Taylor Swift. At seven years before she was born, maybe we wouldn't have been subjected to her whining in song about the poor choices she makes in her love life!
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I thought Garrett might post the results last night, but, since I had a few minutes to spare, I thought I'd do it myself.
Kurt Busch led most laps (102), but got into a wreck with Ryan Newman around lap 230. Tony Stewart led 84 laps, but ran out of fuel at the end, and came home as the last car in the lead lap. The race ended with a green-white-checkered-flag finish, and the surprise winner was Brian Vickers, the part-time driver with Michael Waltrip Racing.
Jimmie Johnson didn't let starting from the back get in the way of a top ten finish, eventually coming home in 6th.
Ricky was progressing nicely at around 20th for most of the race until Danica took him and Travis Kvapil out on lap 237. There were several other spins and small crashes, but nothing on the scale of last week's race.
1. Brian Vickers
2. Kyle Busch
3. Jeff Burton
4. Brad Keselowski
5. Aric Almirola
6. Jimmie Johnson
7. Kevin Harvick
8. Carl Edwards
9. Matt Kenseth
10. Jeff Gordon
11. Kasey Kahne
12. Jamie McMurray
13. Clint Bowyer
14. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15. Greg Biffle, Ford
16. Martin Truex Jr.
17. Paul Menard
18. David Gilliland
19. David Ragan
20. David Stremme
21. Denny Hamlin
22. A J Allmendinger
23. Dave Blaney
24. Juan Pablo Montoya
25. Joe Nemechek
26. Tony Stewart
27. Bobby Labonte
28. David Reutimann
29. J.J. Yeley
30. Ken Schrader
31. Kurt Busch
32. Landon Cassill
33. Marcos Ambrose
34. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
35. Josh Wise
36. Casey Mears
37. Danica Patrick
38. Travis Kvapil
39. Ryan Newman
40. Joey Logano
41. Morgan Shepherd
42. Michael McDowell
43. Mike Bliss
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Again, thank you Hoss. I thought Mexican Street was Western Street, I didn't even know there existed a Western Street at WB. wasn't the Mexican Street parking lot used in carnival of Thrills as the Cedar City Fair Grounds?
Also, I believe Western Street was sometimes visible in the Dukes. Here's a jump from S6E10 'Enos's Last Chance' showing a building of Western Street in the background.
The Cedar City Fair Grounds parking lot was behind the block where the bank is, just off the top left corner of my recent aerial picture.
The building in your animation is at the end of Western Street, and was seen in quite a few episodes. Rosco even went inside it to spy on the Dukes in 'Route 7-11'. I guess it survived because it blocked the end of the street nicely. It's since been replaced by a much larger building.
The parking lot where Mexican Street used to be was in 'Southern Comfurts' (see below). On the left you can see the back of the building at the end of Western Street. Both the Mexican Street parking lot and the one below it have now been repaced by offices (you can briefly see the lower one playing a hospital during the chase in the 'Hazzard in Hollywood' movie), with parking moved to a new structure just south of Forest Lawn Drive.
I believe this is from the episode where Bo and Luke have to drive a truck which contains a casino, the man on the right had gambled away all his money there and now the dukes are helping him out.
I think you're mixing up your Stovalls. The man who lost his money on the casino truck in 'Route 7-11' was Dewey Stovall. The man on the right is Bill Erwin who played Clarence Stovall in 'The Great Bank Robbery'. Boss cheated him out of his pension by firing him the day before he retired, so he robbed to bank to make up for it. If you look in the background, the 'Office' sign on Cooter's was higher up in earlier seasons and there were license plates over the door.
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Wow, thank you for that Hoss! You say it is the Western Set, So this is Laramie Street? or the Mexican city you can sometimes see from Midwest Street?
I thought it would be at a movie ranch instead of the WB backlot as it looked to rural for the backlot.
Here's an aerial view from 1980. Western Street was right next to Midwest(ern) Street, behind the row of houses containing Boss Hogg's house. Mexican Street was already a parking lot by 1980 (as can be seen in 'Southern Comfurts') - it was torn down sometime in the mid-70s. Laramie street was over on the eastern side of the lot. In the Hazzard Square thread there's pictures of Western Street from 'The Hack of Hazzard' and pictures of Western Street from 'The Invaders' episode 'The Miracle'.
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This was listed as a Dukes of Hazzard behind the scenes but the only similarity I see are two 1969 Dodge Chargers.
The picture was taken on (the long gone) Western Street in the Warner Brothers back lot, so they could be General Lee's being stored just off of Hazzard Square. Here's the same building as it appeared in 'The Hack of Hazzard' when the street became Shoveltown:
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Welcome to HNet Roy. I'm glad you liked the buildings. I have only done artwork for the Boar's Nest signs so far. The Boar's Nest itself doesn't have too much detail compared to some of the others, so it should be easy enough. Have you seen Mark B.'s 1:25 scale model of Cooter's Garage? I'd love to know if he ever finished it.
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When I posted the starting lineup I was under the impression that JJ had passed the second inspection and everything was fine. I think the difference between this issue and the roof flaps is that JJ qualified with an illegal car whereas the 31 last week all fixed their cars before qualifying. It's still a tough decision to take when it's your driver - at least JG moves up to 5th
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I've never heard of Peggy Rea wearing a fat suit. Here's a picture from nearly 10 years after Dukes when she was in 'Grace Under Fire' (I downloaded this so long ago that I've forgotten the source).
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That great! When I started reading I though "What in the world are CDoherty and Hoss doing in Ireland"? But then I saw your two locations were Ireland. I always thought you both lived in the UK.
:oops:I'm English and grew up in the UK, but have lived in Ireland for nearly 10 years.
Would you two mind to share some of the myths of the Dukes of Hazzard you've heard?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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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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Rare and Behind the Scenes Pictures of the Dukes of Hazzard
in Dukes of Hazzard General Discussion
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This isn't a behind-the-scenes picture, but it is contemporary with the final season. I was only doing a general Dukes search when I came across this picture of Cathy that I'd never seen before:
The photo credit says it was taken in 1985 by Harry Langdon, but I have no other info.