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Sorry Roger, I can't remember the answer to your question, but I have a related aside. Back in 1983 I had a Pac-Man watch which had Dixie as its alarm tune. How cool was that? Not only could I play Pac-Man on my watch, but it also had the General Lee's horn as an alarm. I wish I'd kept it - they go for a fortune on Ebay. When I did a quick Google search to confirm my memory of the alarm was correct I found that a similar watch can be heard on some versions of 'Rock the Casbah' by The Clash - click and listen at about 1:52. I can't hear it on the version used with the released video, but it does feature a convertible white 1970s Cadillac (a '75/'76 I think) with horns on the hood, and the director of photography was John Hazard - you can see that one .I think that's enough tenuous Dukes links for one post .

I've just been flicking through 'Find Loretta Lynn' and given the number of bloopers I spotted, I think 'Find the Continuity Person' would've been a better title. I'll start with the scene at the Boar's Nest where Rosco and Enos's cars are chained together. In the close-ups the chains are clearly tied around the bumpers of each car, but in the long shot the chain seems to go around the front axle of Enos's car without touching the bumper. Then when the cars pull apart the chain is back on the bumpers, pulling the back off of Rosco's car and the front off of Enos's. That's how they appear for most of the rest of the episode, except for a couple of scenes when someone forgot. The lower left picture is when Rosco and Enos are following Jesse and Daisy (who's dressed as Loretta), while the lower right shows the cars when they hit the back of Jesse's truck. Both show that the two cars are complete, even though they were shown with their panels missing between these two shots. When Rosco and Enos descend the tree from where they've been spying on the Duke Farm, Rosco gets his belt caught on the way down (see inset). As Enos tries to help, Rosco swings about two feet to the left on a suspending cable (arrowed) - it's easier to see when moving. Finally there are continuity errors at the beginning and end of the concluding chase. As Bo and Luke leave the stockyards they are on a light dusty surface, but the close-up of the General's wheel spinning shows grass and leaves on the ground. Then at the end Luke gets Bubba to pull off to the side of a two-lane road, which changes to a dirt track in a grassy area when Bubba makes a run for it.

I have good news and bad news for you. First the bad news: I can't find any reference to 'You've Got a Friend' being commercially available on DVD, VHS or download. The good news is that if you know anyone with the Hallmark Movie Channel it's being shown a few times this month: Tonight (05/07) at 10pm ET; Tomorrow (05/08) at 4am ET; Friday 05/18 at 6pm ET; Saturday 05/19 at 4am ET. There may be other showings that I missed. You can check for yourself on www.hallmarkmoviechannel.com - click on "schedule" just under the logo and look for it day by day. For some reason if you do a search it only gives the 4am showings (and shows them a day early).

Who knows, if Dukes had been made a few years later we may have had a musical episode like they did with 'Buffy' and 'Scrubs'. I was originally going to go down the road of rewriting a well-known song from a musical, but Duke-ifying it eg. starting with the song 'Trouble' from 'The Music Man': Trouble with a capital "T" And that rhymes with "B" and that stands for Boss! Then I thought it would be fun to try and match existing songs from musicals to Dukes characters. Here's some suggestions to get you started - maybe together we can make 'Dukes: The Musical' : Uncle Jesse (while plowing the back 40) If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof) Boss Food, Glorious Food (Oliver) Enos (about Daisy) Hopelessly Devoted to You (Grease) Bo and Luke Anything You Can Do (Annie Get Your Gun) Daisy (to Bo and Luke) Goin' Courtin' (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Emery Potter Get Me to the Church on Time (My Fair Lady) I was a bit stuck for Cooter (I'm sure someone can think of something better), so I went with Can We Fix It? (Bob the Builder) Not strictly a musical, granted, but he was using the phrase "Yes we can" years before Mr Obama!

Unlike the old timers who had MySpace online.

I finally remembered to watch the interview that Brian posted (thanks for the link, Brian). Just over halfway through Tom mentions that he does 'Trouble' from 'The Music Man' as a duet with John. For those of you that don't know, the movie version of 'The Music Man' was filmed in Hazzard Square, aka. Warner Bros' Midwest Street. Here's a screengrab from just before starts; on the left is the River City Bank (Boss's Bank), Jim Griffith's is where the barbers shop was, Ewart Dunlop (Staple and Fancy Groceries) takes the place of the Hazzard Theatre and finally the pool hall that causes all the 'Trouble' would become the pharmacy. The County Building, church and other familiar stores are also visible during the song.

This track concludes their 1986 album 'Different Light'.

Hard to believe that this song is 12 years old. Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols I played this song a lot when I first got the album.

To be fair, I spend most days banging my head against the wall anyway - you just gave me a better reason .

So many "Morning" songs to choose from, I think I'll go with this: Lucky me - it's already Sunday morning here (albeit 1am ).

No, I think I would've asked Mufn to delete my account if I'd done that . It was Mason Dixon's Trans-Am and Amy's Mustang, "Lucifer". I misread screengrabs, and only discoved my mistake when I went back for better ones to give as clues.

I believe BL is right. I agree Roger. If it weren't for the other picture I probably wouldn't have noticed. I made a similar mistake when I asked a question about license plates, which was embarrassing because it was one of the first that I posted .

I'm probably guessing nearly as much as you, although I've heard the dialect spoken more. I agree with most of your translation, but I think the fourth line is more likely to be "With few left at home". Apparently "Geate a'vallen to" means gate a-falling or the gate closing. It was the last poem Barnes wrote before he died, and the gate is meant to be a metaphor for death (thanks Google ). If you want to read the whole poem you can see it here.

That pronunciation immediately reminded me of the accent that Sheldon affects at the end of from The Big Bang Theory.I visited Virginia nearly 30 years ago and I don't remember the accent being particularly difficult to understand. Then again, we do get good variety of American accents on British TV. I do remember being asked to show off my "quaint" English accent while I was there. This thread made me think of the sound of the accent where I was born in England. I went looking for examples and found that I couldn't understand a lot of it myself; in fairness, I did move away from the area when I two. Here's the beginning of a poem by William Barnes - see how y'all get on: In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi’ the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi’ vew a-left at hwome, When waggons rumbled out ov yard Red wheeled, wi’ body blue, And back behind ‘em loudly slamm’d The geate a’vallen to. Most British characters in US shows tend to have fairly neutral accents. The only counter-example that springs to mind Daphne Moon's Manchester(ish) accent in Frasier. Maybe US viewer aren't ready to hear regional British voices.

At Christmas we stretched it out over a longer period to try to accommodate as many people as possible. Earlier would suit me because 8pm ET is 1am where I live, but that might not suit people on the west coast. As long as it doesn't get later than 8pm ET I'll try to be there .

Looks like the "meet in the middle" idea worked out ok - today we had blue skies and temperatures nearly 20 degrees warmer than yesterday, although still only in the 60s .

The mid Atlantic's pretty cold and wet this time of the year too .

Way to sell it MaryAnne .

I'll trade you for the cold, wet, windy weather that we have at the moment .

Since when was "mañana" assimilated into the Irish language? In case the American members aren't familiar with A4-sized paper, it's a similar size to "letter". So you got marked on quantity, not quality . Only kidding, well done on your achievement.

Roger, out of curiosity I dug out 'The Law and Jesse Duke' because I couldn't remember where the phone number was mentioned. Did you base your last question on the sign at the warehouse where Bo and Luke were taken?: I think the number is actually 555-4309 because it appears to be the same sign that was on the side of Rhuebottom's earlier in the season (I remembered it from the Hazzard Square thread): Incidentally, a little later in 'The Law and Jesse Duke' the boys drive into a removal truck. The sign outside the house is for "Hazzard Realty", and also lists J.D. Hogg as the contact, although this time the number is different. I've enlarged and sharpened it and I think it says 555-2133. Maybe Boss has different numbers for his commercial and residential property businesses.

Just to lighten the tone slightly; thanks for the lesson in vexillology - it would make a great episode of . I think you guys should go back to the Grand Union Flag (aka. Continental Colors, the Congress Flag etc.) - there's something about the canton in that one that I like .

Crazy (I know, his mother had him tested )

They're more orange than yellow, but Cooter had them on all of his tow trucks (although only the yellow one had a lightbar):

They're a lot less varied in the UK and Ireland: Blue: Police, fire, ambulance Green: Doctor Amber: Tow trucks, garbage trucks, wide vehicles, slow vehicles etc.