MaryAnne

*looks at the Duke boy, a little confused* "You don't know? Well, let me ask that this way. What are you looking for Chet? What are you really looking for?"

*smiles* "Thank ya." *heads up the stairs with Chet following and they walk into the courthouse. They then head to the booking room, which is empty. Once inside the booking room, turns around to face Chet* "Okay, what's the deal?"

*gestures to the courthouse* "By all means, step into my office..."

(With permission, I am representing Mr. Coltrane in this nefarious plot. LOL Anyone else attempts to represent Mr. Coltrane in this nefarious plot will be nefariously dealt with. -- MaryAnne) Oblivous to the circus of trouble heading toward Hazzard, one black clad Coltrane was occupying himself with a lukewarm beer and a game of pool at the Boar's Nest. Brian's opponent was none other than his cousin MaryAnne, business being so slow that afternoon that the female deputy and part-time waitress gave up watching bar flys to take on her cousin in a game. Of course, the game started out seriously enough but soon dissolved into a show off contest, with each cousin setting up more and more ridiculous shots involving beer bottles, shot glasses and using other pool sticks for acute angles. MaryAnne stood in her waitress uniform, watching as Brian set up his next shot. In the middle of the table, two beer bottles held up a serving tray, with two more beer bottles on that tray to hold up another tray. The nine ball was situated just beyond the beer temple Brian had built on the table. On the other side of the temple, near the cue ball, Brian had set up a shot glass with MaryAnne's order pad of paper angled like a ramp. MaryAnne cocked her head. "Shrine to Miller?" she asked, referring the label on the beer bottles. Brian snorted. "Sure." He pointed to each beer bottle. "This is Glenn, this is Roger, this is Arthur and this is Steve." MaryAnne laughed. "Seriously, what are you gonna try to do? Jump the cue ball through there?" "Shh!" Brian hissed with a grin. "You'll spoil the surprise." He walked past his cousin to the end of the pool table and lined up his cue ball. "You ever try this before?" MaryAnne asked not sure that what her cousin was about to do was really going to work. "Once." "What happened?" Brian didn't reply and chalked the end of his pool stick. He then leaned over the table and lined up his shot, the cue ball lined up with the ramp. He looked at the cue ball and then at the beer shrine he had built, then back at the cue ball again. What few people there were in the Boar's Nest, were all watching to see if Brian would make this shot. If not for the jukebox playing an old Waylon Jennings record, the place would have been quiet enough to hear a pin drop. Brian gave the cue ball a good hard tap, sending it up the ramp and into the air toward his beer temple. The cue ball just cleared through the open middle of the top two beer bottles and over the nine ball, landing with a thunk on the table. It rolled, hit the bumper of the pool table and rolled back toward the nine ball, clicking it and sending it rolling toward the beer temple and back in Brian's direction. Brian held his breath and even turned his body as if trying to command the nine ball through telekinesis to keep rolling straight. The nine ball went through the bottom floor of the temple, but not before knocking one of the beer bottle pillars out in the process and bringing the whole thing collapsing down. The bottles, however, didn't break. "Argh!" Brian said as the rest of the Boar's Nest groaned with disappointment. "So close." "Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades," MaryAnne said. Brian looked up at his cousin. "You wanna go toss some hand grenades?" "Can't. I'm fresh out." Brian grinned and began to clean up the mess. Luckily the beer bottles were empty, although he had contemplated using full, uncapped ones. But had they broke on contact with the heavy pool balls it would have left a mess on Boss Hogg's pool table. And Brian didn't need for Boss to threaten to make him work at the Boar's Nest to pay off having the table felt replaced. If he didn't just decide to use Brian's hide to cover the table instead. "You didn't answer my question," MaryAnne said, collecting the serving trays. "What happened when you tried this last time?" "Ah'll have you know that this time was a vast improvement over the first time I tried this trick." He paused. "I didn't break the beer bottles this time." MaryAnne chuckled. "You keep practicing you'll probably get the shot. Wanna set it up again?" Since it was slow afternoon and relatively quiet day, Brian agreed to try again. But as every citizen of Hazzard knows, when things get quiet that's usually when trouble shows up...

"Alex has had many a price on his head, and it wasn't for his hair..." *chuckles and glances at Alex with a gentle 'leave 'em alone' look. Turns attention back to Chet* "Yes, it is yours to sell. So you down on your luck, Chet? Need some cash so you're selling your heart n' soul to the first good offer you can get? I mean, Boss Hogg don't pay much so any offer I make would be insulting to the true worth of the items you seek to peddle." *has a feeling there's a different Coltrane Chet is looking to get attention from, and it wasn't from one in a uniform*

"Well because selling yer heart n' soul is serious business. It's usually one of them deals where there's no refunds, no exchanges...and no returns." *studies the black haired Duke boy, not suspiciously but still curious* "What's going on, Chet?"

I'm guessing Daney was using "green" to mean envy. As in the expression of "being green with envy." In other words..."wishing very much that you had what someone else has."

"Caught ya didn't I? Khee!" *grins and holds up the flyer* "Figured I better check to see if you got a business license. It's not everyday folks advertise the selling of their heart n' soul." *expression is still pleasant but there's no stopping Coltrane curiousity."

Moderators Gone Wild?! Man, between the books and that DVD, we sure don't need to worry about ending up on the cover of the National Inquirer for some scandal. We just create our own! ROFL Seriously tho'...General Grant, thank you for the kind words. Brian summed it up best. HNet is a community and it is what it is because of everyone who hangs out here.

We here at HNet are proud of the fact that nobody can forget about this place in two weeks. ROFL Have a nice vacation BoJames! We'll be here when you get back on the 29th.

*From the square, sees the young Chet Duke standing near the patrol cars. Not sure if he's waiting for someone, contemplating stealing one of the cars or just loitering around. Still curious about the flyer she found earlier, starts to walk over toward the courthouse* *Reaches the sidewalk. Chet's still standing near the cars, smoking his cigarette. Can see the flyers tucked in the back pocket of his jeans. Approaches cautiously but pleasantly* "Howdy..."

Oh yeah?! Well - well - well ... I ain't got a good comeback for that one. (How can I argue with the truth?)

*nods* "Yes, you can have visitors and I'm sure you'll have many." *smiles but it's kind of sad* "Heck ya got Lex and Daney here, if they decide to hang around, which they can if they want. I gotta go take care of some paperwork tho'." *looks at Rosco* "I'll use Boss's office, since he's not here..." *picks up a few files from the booking desk and walks away from the booking area, disappearing quietly into Boss's office.*

"I know you won't. If I were to guess, Lex was gonna let Jack know where the comics and puzzle books are stashed in the cell there. Have to admit I don't remember what brick it is myself."

Uh oh! Now we're all in trouble! Heh heh!

"Alex has been arrested for stealing your car, Jack. You'll find it outside. If there's any damages to it just let me know, the department will reimburse Atlanta PD for the expenses." *hangs up the cell keys on the hook on the wall and turns to Jack again* "You're free to go."

*moves Alex along and into the jail cell. Removes the handcuffs from his wrists and then exits the cell, closing the door and locking it* "I promise not to give ya chipped beef for dinner. Don't want folks thinkin' we're abusive jailers 'round here...." *chuckles*

*finds one of the FOR SALE posters on a light pole in town. Walks up to it, reads it and then gently pulls it down, curious* "Hmmm...."

I couldn'ta said it better! You're writing a book? I'm impressed! No wonder you're not doing much work around here. Mufn and I could sue I suppose, but I should mention I'm writing a book too. Mines called "Brian Coltrane is a Black Clad Idiot: Here's All The Stuff He Probably Won't Tell About in His Tell-All Book" We'll see who's book has the most dirt!

*looks at Lex and then at Alex* "Ya know, she's gotta point, atleast she didn't do that..." *steps toward Alex to escort him toward the cell*

"Yeah, they probably will..." *notices Jack's antics and tries not to grin.* "Awright, Lex, I appreciate you keeping an eye on the prisoner. But I gotta make a swap so I gotta have ya scoot outta the way there..." *scoots Lex aside and proceeds to unlock the cell door. Looks at Jack and jerks a thumb over her shoulder* "Out."

Yeah, we posted a blurb about that back in October and our source was the site tvshowsondvd.com. They usually have pretty reliable sources and apparently what's to happen is the two reunion movies will be released later this summer. Depending on how that goes we might see "Enos" and the Dukes cartoons following that. I just checked the tvshowsondvd site and there hasn't been an update since October for Dukes stuff. Brian's good at digging up stuff tho'. Khee! So as we always say, stay tuned! By the way, nice job on the recent front page article, Brian. You do some good work when you actually work!

Bon jour! Welcome to HNet! You've come to the right place for all your Dukes needs and desires. Khee!

Number 3 I think is The Treasure of Hazzard, like i1976 said. Man...I'm stumped on 1 and 2. I can picture the scene for 1 but couldn't say what episode, tho' I think Kay is right and it's a C&V episode. But number 2 has me totally stumped. Hmmm... Where's Roger Duke? He'd know!

No, Daisy, it's okay. No apology is needed, please don't feel bad about any of this. We dropped the ball, collectively, on the issue. Brian was caught off guard, I handled things poorly on my part. But we've addressed the issue, as you already know. And we thank you for your patience. I'm not mad at Brian and nobody's gonna git fired. Everything's okay folks, we're gonna keep going with shenanigans as usual. Have to admit I did wake 'em up tho'....