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Dit is geweldig .

We certainly use the terms strike, spare and split. I've never had three strikes in a row, so I don't know about turkeys . Metric bowling obviously uses 10 pins - how many do you use?

Wow, that's a lot of snow. In the last 24 hours, I went bowling for the first time in over two years. The bowling alley is only across town, but I just never think to go there. Today I was part of a group of 10, and came second overall (none of us were great bowlers, so that's not saying much).

Hey, Roger, you obviously didn't get an electricity bill for $284bn like one of your neighbors . Full story here.

"Please Come to Boston" by Dave Loggins The Wikipedia page suggests that the "man from Tennessee" was Dave himself.

No snow here (we had some a couple of weeks ago), but there's a frost on my shed roof this morning. I had Christmas dinner with friends yesterday, and hope to be seeing different friends for dinner today. Most shops won't re-open until tomorrow, so it's likely to be a quiet day otherwise. Happy Christmas to all on HNet, and a belated Happy Birthday to MeadowMufn.

Great job (again). I don't think I've ever seen color comparisons done with models.

"And you can just start by ticketing that illegal snaZZy car..." - (Boss to Rosco in "To Catch a Duke")

You'd better hope that your service provider doesn't block access to HNet. I can't think of any reason why they would, but the new law means that they could if they wanted to. Before the law change, they weren't allowed to do things like that. Right from its inception, the Internet was supposed to be a level playing field, hence the reason why some of its founders cared enough to add their names to that letter. An unrestricted online experience has become a given freedom in the West. Countries that control what their citizens can see are generally frowned upon. This law isn't about the government controlling what you can see, but your ISP can. Admittedly, there's going to be a lot of scaremongering until the dust settles. None of that would be happening if they'd just left the original law alone.

I doubt that it will have any impact on HNet, but today's decision isn't the one I'd have wanted if I lived in the US. At present, all internet traffic is treated equally, so it doesn't matter if you're streaming a movie, shopping online with a multi-national company, looking up your local church group or reading HNet - it all has to be treated the same by your internet service provider (ISP). If today's changes go through, ISPs could provide a better/faster service for companies that paid them, or charge you more to use certain parts of the internet. The FCC was obviously quite happy to ignore a letter asking it to maintain net neutrality, despite signatories including “father of the internet”, Vint Cerf, the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. So far, the Democrats plan to overturn the proposal, and Washington's governor says his state will protect net neutrality. From the ISPs, a statement from Comcast says "our internet service is not going to change."

The West Country accent may work well in Lord of the Rings, but here's a behind-the-scenes clip from the original Star Wars. It would have been a very different movie if they'd used Dave Prowse's own voice.

I get the feeling that some Americans expect everyone British to speak like Gaylord Duke or Iggins. The UK may be much smaller than the US, but there are a huge range of accents. I wonder how many are known in the US. Here's a video I found with some examples. They're not all spot on, but they'll give you an idea. I'm afraid that Americans also have a reputation for struggling with geography. I think you might like this example, Roger.

Yes, Southern Ireland swapped to KPH just over 10 years ago. There was a time when I first moved here that speed limit signs were still in MPH, but road signs had distances in kilometers, which was strange. Even though we're in KPH and kilometers, I still tend to automatically convert to miles because that's what I grew up with. Also, I have no idea what a good fuel consumption figure is in liters per 100km - MPG makes a lot more sense to me (once I remember that a US gallon is about 3.8 liters while a UK gallon is just over 4.5 liters).

I think it's still too early to tell. They've made a start on agreeing details on the border this morning, which paves the way for more trade talks. At present you can drive across the border and the only indication is the signage telling you that speed limits are now in miles instead of kilometers. Shopping is currently cheaper in the North, so people from the South often cross the border if they're close enough. On the other hand, Southern Ireland has been giving good tax deals to large companies, so businesses like Apple and Google have been sending a lot of money through here so they don't have to pay higher rates elsewhere.

In the last 24 hours, Roth and I went off topic. (There you go, I fixed it ) Never heard it sung in Dutch before. The first two lines are the same as the German version, but it's completely different after that.

Brexit is all over the news at the moment, and a lot of it is about the border between Northern and Southern Ireland. The North is part of the UK, so will be leaving the EU, but the South (where I live) is staying in the EU, and everyone's worried about what sort of border we'll have. I didn't have a vote in the Brexit referendum, and there's nothing I can do about it, so there's no point worrying, but it will be interesting to see how it turns out. Barack Obama once warned the UK that they would be at the “back of the queue” in any trade deal with the US if the country chose to leave the EU. As one comedy show pointed out at the time, he didn't take into account how much the British love queueing. It gives us a chance to moan about the weather . Are there any other stereotypes you have for the British? Americans normally quote warm beer and bad teeth, and as Roger pointed out, we're all really smart .

"Silent Night" is one of the songs we're singing. I did suggest we sang verses in different languages (I learned the original German lyrics at school), but that proved too difficult. Sadly, there were no takers for my Dukes version of "Walking in a Winter Winterland" . This is probably more for the International Thread, but have you ever heard "Silent Night" in Irish?

I was at a choir practice last night, which is a phrase I never thought I'd say . We're just doing about five or six songs at an event on Saturday, and I'm definitely there to make up numbers rather than for my singing voice!

It was originally a duplicate post by Kamryn. I answered the same question here.

I posted quite a few of the Lake Sherwood locations in the Hazzard Square thread, Check out page 9 onwards.

It's only a few miles (about 15 minutes) from Lake Sherwood, where a lot of the location filming in the middle of the series took place. The dirt tracks and the sites of the Boar's Nest and Duke Farm have been replaced by the Sherwood Country Club, but many of the road locations haven't changed much.

You could always ask: http://www.goldenoakranch.com/contact/ A lot of the early California episodes were filmed there. The barn where they hid Loretta Lynn's RV is still standing, and it looks like the covered bridge is back.

If you're running Windows 7 or higher, Paint.Net is a huge improvement on Paint, and it's free. You can download it here. If you want a more complex program (which is also free), you could try GIMP. That's available here.

I've finally thought of a question for this thread: How much British TV makes it to the US? I wouldn't be on this forum if US TV wasn't shown in the UK. As well as Dukes, I grew up watching action shows like CHiPs and the Fall Guy, and comedies like Cheers and M*A*S*H, amongst many, many others. I know that the US has a habit of remaking UK shows with varying success. The Office did very well, but two shows featuring Rick Hurst, On the Rocks (Porridge) and Amanda's (Fawlty Towers) only made a single season. Are US audiences familiar with the original shows?

Here's a map from Richard Cummins' website. I believe CDoherty may have posted it before, but all of his images disappeared in the Photobucket debacle. A larger version can be found here.