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I guess 1880s is historic where you live, Roger. The castle where I live is only about 700 years older than that!

I nearly witnessed a nasty head-on crash last week. We have a lot of tractors on the road at the moment with the inevitable queues behind them. As I was on my way home for lunch, I got stuck at the back of one of these queues. About six cars got past on a straight section of road and then next in line was a semi with a lime tanker. He decided he could pass on the next really short straight, but spotted a car coming the other way as he drew alongside the tractor. The truck must've cut back in with inches to spare to the tractor, and the car had to brake hard and pull into the verge to miss it. The really stupid thing is that the tractor pulled in about 100 yards later to let the traffic past. Knowing the road, I was expecting that, but I guess the truck driver didn't know!

I've just watched the scene a few times, and I think that the three parked cars (Jesse's pickup, Swamp Molly's pickup and the General) appear to be in the right places when the angle changes. There's room behind them for the truck to enter the water. A couple of things I did notice: 1) Rosco's driving a '74 Plymouth Satellite when he gives Enos permission to make the arrest, but in subsequent shots he's driving a '75 Plymouth Fury. 2) From when Rosco speeds past Enos to when he hits the truck takes about 12 seconds. Even if he was only going at 30mph, he would still travel 176 yards in that time, yet when he gets out of his crashed car, Enos and the walkie talkie in the road are no more than 20 yards behind him.

We've had over 1,000 new cases a day over the last three days, and about 70% are meant to be the Delta variant. Luckily, there seem to be less deaths and hospital admissions than last year. Indoor dining was supposed to reopen later this month, but that may now be delayed. They seem to think that a lot of the Delta cases are coming from the UK, and the UK is ending nearly all of its restrictions today, against international advice! I had my second vaccination about a month ago, so hopefully I'm as protected as I can be. Also, where I live is regularly among the counties with the lowest incidence rates.

I played a little at school when I was around 10 or 11, but then did athletics in my early-mid teens. I can't even claim to be a football fan - I watch a few matches during the Euros and World Cups, but otherwise I just keep an eye on the scores so that I can join in conversations!

Well, as y'all may have seen, England were in the final of the Euros football (soccer) tournament last night, and lost to Italy when the match ended in a 1-1 draw and went to penalties. For various reasons, the England football team doesn't get a lot of support from outside England, even from the other home nations. Couple this with a feeling that this was their year (it's their first major final since they won the '66 World Cup and the final was in London again), and you didn't have to look far today to find people who were happy with the outcome. Suffice to say, being an Englishman abroad, I've had a day of 'witty' comments and light-hearted digs. Still, it's a young team and there's a World Cup next year...

As we discussed recently in the Every Which Way But Loose thread, William Smith also played Clint Eastwood's opponent, Jack Wilson, in 'Any Which Way You Can'. Looking at his credits on IMDb, it seems he was still acting up until last year.

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These are all hugely impressive, and they make a great collection. I think I'd add a Mustang, but would it be Lucifer, the Double Zero, or Black Tillie II...

Police (I'm going by British slang)

Your memory's better than you think, Hobie, because you're correct!

Beautiful - just make sure you don't take it near any cliffs!

I can't beat that (I don't think I've ever seen one in real life), but I was in London 18 years ago when the last three Concordes flew into Heathrow one after another. Even at the end, a single Concorde would still get attention, so you can image how special it was to see three.

Thanks for the extra pictures, Andrew. The Tomcat is one of my favorites too, along with the A-10 'Warthog' Thunderbolt and Russiam Mil Mi-24 Helicopter.

Well, there was that terribly racist episode where they made fun of the visiting Englishman, but apparently "we all can't be perfect"!

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You'd be best off using an image hosting site and then linking your images. This means that you upload your pictures to another site, and that site provides you with a simple line of code to paste into your post on HNet. I pay for image hosting, and while the site I use does have free accounts with a limit of 250 images (a low number compared to rivals), and they've been more reliable of late, I can't recommend them. I only stay because the thought of moving around 12,000 images is too much for me! I hope I haven't made the process sound too difficult. Each site will do things slightly differently, but once you're setup, they make things pretty easy.

I don't know why it's so hard to get the wheels on Daisy's car right, although I have to admit that I put the wrong wheels on my first attempt at drawing it in the Fan Art forum (I used a lot more reference photos for my later efforts to get them closer to the on-screen vehicles). I did eventually update my artwork (below), and while my stripe might not be quite as accurate as yours, we're not a million miles apart. For some reason, even the 1:18 diecast version (below) released a few years ago came with the wrong wheels despite the manufacturer having the correct wheels on other models. I commented on this in the Dukes of Hazzard Diecast Models forum. Great work as always with your model, Andrew. I've been keenly following the build, and look forward to seeing you final photos. BTW. Do I spy some F-14 Tomcats in your airplane collection? I think I built a model kit of one about 35 years ago, but it wouldn't have looked as good as yours, and I've no idea what happened to it.

If it wasn't for this thread, I wouldn't have understood this joke that I saw earlier. I assume there's room for five passengers!

Jelly (or jam as we call it!) By coincidence, I'm watching my way through my 'Cheers' boxset at the moment, and thought I recognized one of the guest stars towards the end of season 4. Turns out it was Max Wright, aka. Willie Tanner in ALF.

You're probably thinking of Andrea Elson who played Lynn Tanner in the show. She also played Alice Tyler in the short-lived series 'Whiz Kids' a couple of years earlier.

Alien I had to Google it - I haven't seen the show since the '80s, and had completely forgotten his full name!

Belated birthday wishes from me too, Spike. Apart from the non-functioning Fitbits, it sounds like you had a good day.

It feels like F1 is moving away from this sort of controversial/arbitrary rule enforcement. Hopefully they've realized how badly it goes over with the fans!