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Roger, I'm sorry about your cousin. Let me be clear, I'm not advocating any risk-taking or breaking any laws. Both of the events that I described took place off of the public highway. Beach driving can be great fun as long as stay clear of other people and act responsibly. I doubt if I went any faster than 20 mph. That's the point - you can slide on sand at a very low speed and pretend you're driving much faster. With sand you can never be sure how solid it is, so if you drive fast you run a risk of your wheels digging in and your vehicle rolling over. To sum up: have fun, but stay sensible and legal.

I forgot this song when we did 'America' songs last week:

Here's the screengrabs that you were after. I'll let CDoherty explain what we're looking at. There appears to be a semi waiting to go through the tunnel in the second picture. I'd have loved it if it was a battered, rusty old needle-nose Peterbilt/tanker rig - the tunnel scene from 'Duel' was filmed here. A '67 Mercury Cougar chasing a '69 Dodge Charger - the cars are very similar to the '68 Mustang and Charger that appeared in Bullitt. I certainly noticed that the hubcaps don't match in the tunnel scene.

My first time driving was when I was about 13 or 14. It was in my uncle's old Land Rover in a field behind his house. It was old enough that you had to engage four-wheel-drive by twisting a nut on the front hubs with a spanner!. I can't say there was anything very Dukes about it. I have driven a beach a few times, back when I had a 2 liter rear-wheel-drive car. That was far more Duke-like. I had great fun drifting around with big rooster tails of sand flying out the back. The few onlookers were looking at me wondering what I was doing, but I figured that there aren't many places you can do that without hitting something or someone, or damaging your tires. Due to the safe environment I also gave someone their first driving experience on a beach.

Following Billy Idol, some more Londoners with a rather different style of music. Apparently it's called 'Rockney' (a mix of rock and Cockney). The chip shops here don't seem to sell saveloys .

There's even a color video for this mid '60s track .

I found myself listening to some old music at the weekend. Amongst the songs was this one from 1931: Sally - Gracie Fields

It had to be ...

I couldn't find a studio version of this song on YouTube, so I had to look elsewhere: Dreamer - Supertramp If the French site I found doesn't work, there is a reasonable live version on YouTube.

This time Wham!'s the song, not the band, in this instrumental from the '60s:

Here are three of the buildings down the road between the bank and the drug store. After finishing Cooter's truck recently, I decided it was time to finish this one too. The barber's shopfront was done a while back, as was the sign for Rick's. I just needed some screengrabs of the upper floor. Many of the buildings in Hazzard Square change appearance, and these are no exception. Both the barber's and Rick's have awnings in some episodes, and both lose at least some of their window signage as time goes on. I've included the ladder on the side of Rick's, although this is only present when the plot demands it. The building on the right that I've portrayed as Victors Bail Bonds is pretty tatty when first seen. It gets rebuilt in later seasons, but I decided to clean up the original. Because the top and right hand side are rarely seen, they are virtually blank. Here's a close-up of the barber's ... ... and Rick's Pool Room And Lounge ... ... and finally Victors Bail Bonds. There was a brighly colored, but unreadable sign in the window in one of the grabs I had, so I copied the 'For Sale' sign that appeared in the same building in later seasons.

CDoherty, you have a good memory . I remembered the line, but not the episode. It appears just after the opening credits in 'Officer Daisy Duke' when Bo and Luke are taking Daisy to the Boar's Nest. I've combined the subtitles from two frames to get the whole quote together:

To go with the '80s pop in the 'One Word Song Titles' thread:

That's two words Alex. You could've had: Freedom - Wham!

From 1969: Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman

In case Roger misses this, just click on 'Flash Chat' on the menu bar at the top of each page. I usually right-click and 'Open Link in a New Tab' so I can go back and forth to HNet. Either way you'll see a login screen which should disappear after a couple of seconds, followed by the Boar's Nest chat window. Hope to see you there. You do know that first time visitors have to buy a round of buttermilks, right?.

Just out of the '80s, the album this song is from ('Days of Open Hand') came out in the same year as They Might Be Giant's 'Flood'.

I'm only posting this because there's a current commercial with a similar tune: I may be getting old, but I haven't turned into yet .

There were a few places that have songs written about their streets - I picked this one. Streets Of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens

Just squeezing in at the end of the '80s ... Like a Prayer - Madonna Warning: When first released, this video caused protests from religious groups around the world because of what they deemed was blasphemous use of Christian imagery. If that's likely to offend, then you can listen to an audio only version here.

Speaking as someone who can't play a note, it would be a shame if you didn't use your talent in some way. As Garrett said, you'll have to decide if the marching band is the right outlet. What's the down side?. Do you like playing in a band?. I wasn't even sure how a bass clarinet differed from a regular clarinet (other than playing lower notes) until I Googled it. Apparently it's not used very often in pop music, but I'm sure most of y'all will be familiar with that features it prominently.