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Well done, Spike. It's good to have you around on HNet.

I watched the start of the race live yesterday and that was quite a shock. We're used to seeing flames from engine fires (as happened to Perez yesterday), but it's a long time since a crash has ended in a fireball. Grosjean looked comfortable in hospital after the race, and is said to have only suffered minor burns. The "halo" safety device above the driver's head probably saved his life. It looks like Michael Schumacher's son Mick may be driving for the Haas F1 team next year.

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I'm hearing it as "Slavonian", but either way I'm guessing that the writers were going for a generic fictional communist state for the bad guys to be from. Like "Urbekistan", that begs the question as to why they were so close to the name of a real place. In 1983, Slovenia was still a Yugoslav republic, and didn't gain independence until 1991, but it would've been on maps!

Welcome to HNet, Dani/CountryXRebel. It sounds like you've come to the right place!

I'm glad they didn't rely on national stereotypes for the Irish episode! It's likely that the leprechaun spelled his name Sean rather than Shaun as it's the usual Irish spelling (I didn't check to see if there were closed captions). As I've posted previously, the police car and police station would have "Garda" on them and not "Police" (it's the shortened form of "An Garda Síochána"). The Irish accents were even worse than 'Wild Mountain Thyme', and it's not like America's short of people with Irish roots! Did you notice that the guard talking to Daisy in the first prison scene had a black mustache and helmet at the start, then a brown mustache and no helmet, then he was back to a black mustache and helmet. BTW. The Gardai don't wear helmets - they're a very British thing!

Besides the holidays at Christmas and Easter, we have these bank holidays in Ireland: Saint Patrick's Day (17 March) First Monday in May First Monday in June First Monday in August Last Monday in October

I see you also copied David's spelling of Thaddeus. I know he wrote his book before the DVDs for the later seasons were released, but if you look at the sign on the Golden Palace Saloon, it's clearly Thadius B Hogg.

Cooter's relative was actually called Jeeter. It's a little hard to hear, but the closed captions and the sign at the blacksmith's both have that spelling.

Here are three videos from a different diecast restorer. This time they're all Dukes vehicles. For some reason he calls Cooter "Skeeter" in the first video, but gets it right after that. First up is Boss' Caddy: Then two Generals: And finally, a couple of patrol cars:

I couldn't completely fix your post, Roger, but at least we can now read your response without clicking expand.

That's for the whole of the the Republic of Ireland which has a population of just under 5 million.

We're down to 250 new cases today, which is much better than the 1284 peak we had just over a month ago, although still a long way from the single digits we had in June. I see that millions of people are traveling around the US for Thanksgiving - I can't see that ending well.

I'm not sure if this is referencing the car or the man, but it made me think of Dukes when I saw this earlier.

Boss' French pronunciation isn't good - it should be more like "wazo". It's an odd mixture of English and French - the proper translation of "the blue bird" would be "l'oiseau bleu", but they insisted on saying the color in English and just keeping the bird part in French. I'm surprised that Jesse didn't notice the stamp when he had to pay the postage due - there's no way that it only cost 10 centimes to send a letter from France to the US in 1983! BTW. French stamps would have "République Française" on them rather than "Repub Franc". Probably just another case of the artists being lazy. Just look at the variations of Jesse's name and address that I found in 'Boss O' Hogg and the Little People'. This is from an old post of mine in the Bloopers thread.

There's certainly a passing resemblance (see below). The Bank of England one pound note was withdrawn from circulation in 1988 in favor of the one pound coin. Scotland, however, has its own money, and the Royal Bank of Scotland still prints one pound notes. I agree about the Scooby Doo feel to the episode. The thing I don't get is why take all the risk of forgery to make the lowest denomination note? BTW, Roger, I took the liberty of adding the episode title to your review.

John Matuszak was in an episode of M*A*S*H that I saw last week. He played a GI with a bad disciplinary record who threatened to beat up one of the officers if he didn't receive the promotion that his father expected him to achieve. Probably his best-known acting role was as Sloth in 'The Goonies'. Sadly, he died of heart failure in 1989 at the age of 38. Did you recognize Billie Jean? Audrey Landers previously played Gail Flatt in 'R.I.P. Henry Flatt'.

As far as I can see, it became the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (part of the USSR) in 1924, and then the independent Republic of Uzbekistan in 1991, so while it may have been the Uzbek SSR when the cartoon was made, there was never a spelling with an R in place of the Z.

I don't understand why the writers invented a country called Urbekistan. If they wanted it to be fictional, why change just one letter of Uzbekistan? Then again, maybe someone misread/mistyped the title and nobody spotted the error.

Despite other inaccuracies, the British police were driving recognizable Rover SD1 cars. With their 3.5 V8, they were iconic police vehicles in the '80s, especially in their more common "jam sandwich" livery (the white cars with an orange stripe down the middle looked like a jam (or jelly in the US) sandwich). You can see one here. Someone once suggested that I could see a band when their tour visited London. It turned out to be the one in Canada!

We had 330 new cases today. That's just over one and a half times as many as you, but with a population over 18 times as large.

The continuity and accuracy in the cartoons is pretty poor. I posted a few inconsistencies here. In 'The Dukes of London', the policeman who stops the Dukes with what he thinks is the Queen's dog has a pink mustache (it wasn't colored in) for part of the scene. That would be a railway crossing in England, Roger. The Queen famously keeps and breeds corgis, but I suppose that wouldn't make such a good story. Aren't Flash and Regina both female? Where would the puppies come from?

I don't think I've noticed that before, Roger. From what I can see, Zeb was played by Richard Johnson, but the part is uncredited. He was previously one of the ultralight pilots in 'Daisy's Shotgun Wedding' (where he was credited as Rick Johnson). I assumed Toby was Dr. Davis' bearded assistant, but I can't find any contemporary pictures of him for comparison, and he isn't named in the dialogue. I'll try to watch the episode in full over the weekend.

It it gets approved over here, it looks like healthcare workers and vulnerable people will (rightly) get the first batch. After that I'll have to see about the availability.

It sure is .