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Thanks for the review DaisyMae. It's unlikely I'll ever to get to one of these concerts, so it's great to have a first-hand account.

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That would have made an interesting episode Roger, but I think you misunderstand for comic effect . Besides, when 'Any Which Way You Can' was made Will Smith would have been 11 years old - hardly a fair match-up to Clint in a fight. Waikiki got the right answer. Q. In 'Granny Annie', which denomination of US currency was she forging?.

For anyone in the UK and Ireland, according to spoilertv.co.uk the show premieres on satellite channel Sky1 on Sunday 6th February at 9pm.

I wouldn't feel too sorry for the guy. Apparently that was equivalent to 14 days' income, but he said they'd used the wrong year's income to calculate the fine and he got it reduced to $5,245 on appeal. I can't find a definitive answer about what happens to someone with no income, although I did find that fixed fines were used for offenders just over the speed limit. The minimum of these is about $60, so I guess they have to pay that. I found another case from January last year in Switzerland where a repeat speeding offender was caught driving his Ferrari at 85 mph through a village. They must have a similar system to Finland because they assessed his overall wealth ($22.7m) and fined his $290,000. I can't find any reference to an appeal, so I guess he had to pay. This may be beaten by another Swiss case from August last year. A Swedish driver was caught doing 290 km/h (180 mph) in his new Mercedes SLS AMG. He'd avoided a couple of speed cameras by driving too fast for them to photograph him before being pulled over by police with a radar gun. His car was impounded, and he could have to pay 300 days' impound fees, which works out at about $1,000,000 - now that would put a smile on Boss's face . I remember from old episodes of Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld that Switzerland isn't exactly the motorist's friend. From Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld: "I was stopped by the police who were concerned that the V8 engine in my TVR, and especially its Matrix Churchill supergun exhaust system, was too loud. Strange that at no point in the conversation did they say anything about the loaded Kalashnikov [rifle] on the passenger seat." Remember that in the UK, gun ownership is illegal for most people, and tightly controlled for the rest, so that is the point that is being made - loud exhaust vs loaded gun, which is more dangerous?. Other strange Swiss motoring laws include not being allowed to wash your car on a Sunday, and having to carry a spare pair of glasses in your car if you need them for driving.

I think the 'National Saftey Week' banner was just added for comic irony as Rosco demolished the sign. I straightened and merged a couple of screengrabs (all the billboards seem to use the same image), tidied them up and masked out the background. I then let my vector program do an outline trace of the image and added a bit to the color saturation. That produced the image below which (in vector form) contains nearly 400 separate objects: Originally I only intended to use it for the sign on the back of Miz Tisdale's cab, but then I thought of these billboards. As you can see, vector art isn't great at photo-realism and gives a 'solarized' effect when blown up, but it won't go blocky. A couple of hours' work with fountain fills and blends could make it more convincing, but not much fun for me . The advantage of having the image in vector format is that it can be scaled and dropped onto any background.

Shout - Tears For Fears I seem to be stuck in the mid '80s today . This song was released in the UK in 1984 and reached #4 in the charts. It was realeased a year later in the US and reached the #1 spot.

From the 1985 album Little Creatures, it comes with a typically strange video. Bit of trivia for those who don't know: Chris de Burgh's daughter, Rosanna Davison, was born in Dublin, Ireland and was Miss World in 2003.

I don't think it's being shown over here yet - I'll keep an eye out for it.

Maybe Boss should move to Finland. Back in 2002 a director of phone company Nokia got fined for speeding on his motorbike - he was doing 75km/h (47 mph) in a 50 km/h (31 mph) zone. In Finland the fines are proportional to income, so his fine was $103,600.

Y'all have great memories. It was Mabel Wooster and a 12 year wait. I know I said I'd finished with guest stars, but I remembered another tie-in between 'Any Which Way You Can' and Dukes. In 'Any Which Way You Can' Clint Eastwood's character (Philo Beddoe) has to fight Jack Wilson played by William Smith. Q. Who did William Smith play in season 4 of Dukes?.

I've been neglecting this thread for a bit while I've been working on the vehicle artwork, so here's the latest addition. It's two of the billboards featuring Boss Hogg. The first is from 'Sadie Hogg Day', I forget which episode the second appeared in - maybe someone can remind me.

That sounds a bit unbelievable to me, Roger. I bet they were Pittsburgh Steelers signs in your old front yard and you're just trying to wind up Brian by saying they were Packers .

Roger, they're in the 'Gallery' section that you can access through the link in the 'HazzardNet' banner at the top of the page. Here's a direct link to DukeOfEarl's photos: http://www.hazzardnet.com/gallery/member.php?uid=6135&protype=1

Hopefully someone with local knowledge will reply, but in case they don't I found these directions. Google maps doesn't seem to have Street View for Canton, but the Center is marked here.

I nearly forgot Rosco's most expensive patrol car, his Rolls Royce 'Silver Shadow I' from '10 Million Dollar Sheriff'. Apart from the lightbar and decals it looks fairly stock, so I just did the side view. I found this vehicle on eBay when I was looking for reference pictures. I'm sure it will suit Roger if he ever inherits $10,000,000 . For those who are interested, it's a one-off conversion currently owned by artist and sculptor Bill Mack, and has a 'buy it now' price of $54,900.

This thread just reminded me of a joke by one of my favorite comedians, Tim Vine. "I was mugged recently and I burst into tears. A policeman came up to me and said 'I'm fining you £10'. I said 'For crying out loud'. He said 'Yes'." You can see the original towards the end of this video (Warning: may contain puns):

Wow! Earl, you've got quite a collection in your barn now. I came across the rest of your collection on another website a while back when I was searching out reference photos for my Fan Art Rosco patrol car. I see you've now added a Dodge Monaco, and that you are considering making the Fury into a Chickasaw car - don't forget the fangs . I think your wife's Mustang would make a great Double Zero, but I also think it looks sweet as it is. If you don't get time to paint the Road Runner, you could always say it's Coy and Vance's car - that was a blue Road Runner. You must be a real Dukes fan to have bought the red and white Torino from 'One Armed Bandits', although I'm sure it appeared in another show . As to your non-Dukes car, the Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, when you joined HNet I'd never heard of it but, as luck would have it, the American car magazine I get over here ran a feature complete with pull-out poster the very next month. It certainly is an unusual car, and I'm sure you enjoy driving it more than your Subaru .

Charger and Roger were right with Dixie King. Q. In 'Peoples Choice', what is the name of Emery Potter's fiancée, and how long did she have to wait for her wedding?.

Neil Diamond's 1968 song was covered a year later by Tony Tribe, but the best known version is probably that of which topped the UK charts in 1983 and made it to #34 in the US charts in 1984 before finally topping the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988.