Hobie Hartkins

Hello Chip...good to see you!!

16th....STILL.....better than she's been doing!

I still can't believe Danica got 7th place ....WOW!! That's probably her best finish!

You don't run in to that kind of talent in actors, much today! He and sorrell were a vanishing breed!

I even heard one of them ( can't remember John or Tom, or where I saw it!) say that they had the look but the only real actors were Jimmy, Sorrell and Denver and that they learned a lot about acting from them!

Boss Hogg! ( He was the biggest man in Hazzard!...lol!! )

That was good but sad. I can't explain why but his death grabs me more than Sorrell's or Denver's.......

Ok...here ya go folks....this is a simple run down of the entire situation but there's more to it than this, but this will give you the basic truth. When the U.S. was founded, merchants from Europe, bought slaves from black slave holders in Africa. ( Yes, they enslaved their own people!) They got them very cheap and sold them on average for $1500! That's not in today's money, that's back then!! You had to be very rich to own slaves! As the slave trade progressed in this country ( U.S.A.), poor whites were having to compete with slave labor. When produce and animals were brought to market, the rich whites could sell more cheaper, than the poor whites, because of their cheap slave labor! ( Kind of like a mom and pop store vs. Walmart!) This resulted in resentment from the poor whites, trying to make a living. The people in both the North and the South, who opposed slavery, formed ant-slavery societies, which produced propaganda and had rallies, etc. to denounce slavery. I have the exact figures, somewhere, but off hand, there were like 132 anti-slavery societies in the south and about 90 some odd in the North! How could that be, if everybody in the south wanted slavery? People in the South hated slavery more than people in the North! This is because there were more slaves in the south, because the whites in the North couldn't get much work out of them, because of the cold! They were first generation Africans, right off the boat! When the whites couldn't get work out of the Africans, they spent so much money on, they put them on rafts and sent them down south and sold them to the southerners, because the climate in the South is like that in Africa, hot and humid. Hence the term, " They sold me down the river", meaning someone betrayed you. The south, was more of an agricultural land and the north had the developing industry, during the Industrial Revolution, where there was the development of the mass production line in factories, the structured workweek, and many mechanical inventions were made during this time. The Federal government took up taxes from all its citizens, just like today. Then they handed out the money to the states for bridges, roads, schools etc. The south was not receiving its fair share of the money that they were sending to the Federal government. The Federals were claiming the south was rural and country and didn't need as much of the money as the north, so they refused to give the south their fair share. This was around 1832 or so. This set up the cold war between the North and the South. This feud kept going until finally Lincoln stationed troops in the South and of course the south wasn't going to stand for that and....there ya go! The War Betweeen The States!! This is the politically INcorrect version. If you follow the fairy tales, then you know the evil south wanted slaves and the righteous north didn't and tried to save the poor slaves. However, less than 2% of the pop. could even afford slaves and the whites in the south hated slavery, because it threatened their livelyhood, so it wouldn't make sense to fight to the death for something you were against! In war,the victor writes the history and the Yankees won and they were in the wrong, so they covered their rear, by making up stuff that most people believe to this day, but common sense will show anyone that it just couldn't be the way they claimed it was! I hope this helped! God Bless!

Loser....Boss always lost out to the Dukes!

Most definitely! if you ask me Sorrell and Jimmy made the show, which is strange, because the first two you think of are Bo and Luke!

That sounds just like something Jimmy would say and do....he was that kind of man! Looking out for others just came natural for him! Muffin, I'm sure you're exactly right!!

Wow! That's neat! I never realized that, but you're right!! That's wild! Thanks for bringing that up!!

Most definitely! When that girl is Cathy Bach...it's even better!!

Wow! I'd be honored to be pulled over by one of those! LOL!! race track ( those cars are like the ones on race tracks and the Dukes and Rosco saw a lot of action on race tracks!)

I'm not injecting politics or anything else. The War Between the States, or The War For Southern Independance, was NOT about slavery and had nothing to do with slavery! A cursory look at the facts is all that's needed to see that!

Wow! That's a great poem! It hits hard though...things being the way they are!!

Lamborghini!

Had Jimmy fallen on hard times before he died? I was just wondering, because I know the HUGE mansion I saw on my tape of him and the limo, etc., that he had and then here a few weeks ago, I looked up his net worth on Celebrity Worth, just out of curiosity, and it said he was worth $ 500,000. Well, that's not poor but it sure wouldn't be near enough to keep him in that big mansion, yacht, etc. that I saw. He was probably the best actor I ever saw....him or Sorrell, it's a toss up between those two! He could literally make himself look completely different, simply by his facial expressions! You would be hard pressed to find anybody as good as he is!! I will miss you ol' buddy!! God Bless!!

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I heard this, this morning. ( My wife saw it on FB). I never got to meet him in person and was glad though, that I got his autograph and VHS tape with him and Sorrell Booke at his house and on his yacht. He was very funny and there will never be anyone like him or even close! You always hear about Abott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy, but he and Sorrell were the best comedy team to ever be on film! I was hoping to see one more new Dukes with him....this is very sad.

They need to run several at a time on a regular basis. I mean come on! It would be better than Reba or Fat Cops or whatever!

Structure Yes I see what country he's from, but I was wondering what county....

Paris...my people are from County Down Hoss, where are you at?

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You almost had me until you mentioned the Kardashians...THAT is taking it over the top! LOL!! For a second there, though, I thought you were oucho.....oucho mind!! LOL!!