MaryAnne

*wolf whistle* He shorr is purty! =) I've always dug that color. I named both of my cars, the Saturn too. I call it Sassy. Maybe I oughta post a pic of that one? ROFL

The only vintage Dukes stuff I have (as in I got back in the day) is that Ertl car set and a Dukes of Hazzard guitar (black with the picture of Bo, Luke and Daisy on the face.) The guitar is literally junk now as I tore off the face sticker at one point, but left the "01" and the lil' pic of the General on the head. It's held together by duct tape. I drew a bass guitar on the other side. Some of the tuning keys are missing or broken. The strings are gone. It was stolen once. And you thought Pete Townsend was tough on his instruments. ROFLMAO. Anyway, in recent years I've added the following: 1/18 scale General Lee, DOH poster, calender, various autographed photos of the cast, trading card collection set (almost complete), 45 record of the Dukes theme song, cast album on CD, HCSD shirt (Khee!), tons of pictures, clippings, vintage People Magazine with Cathy Bach on the cover, a few vintage issues of Tiger Beat, 16 and TV Tattletales mags with tons of John, Tom and Cathy pics, the DOH paperback "Gone Racin'", and of course the video and DVD stuff. Yeeehaa! =)

The long night was turing into a long morning. Once MaryAnne reached the sherrif's station with Alex, the blond stranger was placed in a cell. MaryAnne's arrival, complete with stolen horses and a prisoner surprised the weary Sheriff. "How do you do that?" he asked. "Do what?" "Just stumble on stuff!" "I'm a Coltrane. I do it the same way you stumble on stuff." MaryAnne dropped her saddle bags on her desk, kicking up a fine cloud of dust. "I see Cletus didn't bother to clean up around here like I asked him to while I was gone." "You really trust Cletus with a feather duster?" MaryAnne looked at her cousin. "And you trust him with a gun?!" "Good point." Rosco looked at Alex in the cell. "So who's this dude?" "Alex Jackson," MaryAnne replied. "I stumbled on him on my way back to town. He's a friend of Brian's. Told me everything that happened." MaryAnne looked to her cousin. "Any idea where Brian is?" Rosco shook his head. "No," he replied with a weary sigh. "All I know is those damn stolen horses you brought in with him--" he pointed at Alex "--are pretty much the cause of all this mess!" Rosco slammed his hand down on his desk and stood up. "We ain't had this much shootin' and horse theivein' in this town since the war." He glared at Alex in the cell. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just haul you out to the gallows right now and hang ya for all my troubles!" Suddenly, the doors to the Sherrif's office opened and in came Bo and Luke with three salty looking dudes. The threesome had their hands bound and tied. MaryAnne looked at them and then turned back to Rosco. "Because Alex ain't your guilty party." (CUE ANYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!)

MaryAnne hesitated and then took a deep breath. "Yeah. He'll be awright. He's a bad guy afterall..." MaryAnne seemed to be saying it to reassure herself too. She quickly changed the subject. "Thanks for everything, Doc. We'll all keep in touch." MaryAnne nodded to Rosco and the two law officers disappeared down the hall. They were quiet as they exited the hospital and walked to the emergency parking area where Rosco had left Diablo. A voice squawked over the airwaves but MaryAnne and Rosco didn't make it out until they reached the car and the caller repeated herself. "MaryAnne, are you out there on the Hazzardnet? Please come back..." Rosco looked into the window of the Chevy, glaring. "I told her to go home," he said, recognizing Daney's voice. MaryAnne leaned in and grabbed up the mike. "This is MaryAnne. Go ahead." (Cue Daney)

MaryAnne, Mistress of Disaster. *takes a bow* Kneel mere mortals, you are in the presense of disaster-ness. Although I appreciate all the accolades of my talents, Brian, I think tho' we need to get back to some business here. Like that newsletter...? You think you'll have that done sometime before the end of this decade?

Brain said: 9 times out of 10, something works just fine until MaryAnne gets ahold of it. Thus my suggestion of the sign telling hackers that we screw things up around here just fine on our own. Believe me, I require little assistance in messing things up 'round here! Infact I've pretty much mastered the finer intricasies of coordinated chaos. I'm an expert. I don't NEED any help!!! And I certainly don't need some schmuck hacking into the forums, taking the place down and leaving some stupid picture for a calling card. Sheesh! Anyway, as Brian said, blowin' up computers is his speciality. And believe me he's very good at it. If you have a computer that you want to die but it just won't, send it to him. He'll kill it in no time flat. Complete with sparks flyin', motherboard grindin', "this program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down", puffs of smoke finesse. 8)

Thank ya Jax and Darrel. =) The stripe is actually three pinstripes put close together. What have I gotten it up to? LOL. Well, the speedometer only goes up to 85. (Compared to my Saturn which goes up to 110?!?!?!). I've at least made it to 85. ROFL.

Well here's an interesting coinkydink for ya. I have in my possession one of the Ertl Dukes of Hazzard car sets that I've had since I was kid. The set consists of the General Lee, Boss's Caddy, Daisy's Jeep and Rosco's patrol car. Each car is dated 1981 and were made in Hong Kong. Recently I took part in local car show and there was a dude there selling vintage gas station signs (one which read "unleaded .65" !!) and various other odds and ends. He had quite a few vintage early 80's issued matchbox cars, still in their little boxes (the boxes were water damaged but the cars were in pristine condition). In another bucket he had some other older MatchBox and HotWheels cars and while digging through that I found at least four Boss Hogg Caddy's. I bought one for the hell of it (along with a couple of the vintage MatchBox cars in the boxes). When I got home, I realized the Caddy I bought was different from the car I had for the past 20 some odd years. So I looked at the bottom of the one I just bought and compared it to the other I had had. The one I picked up at the car show said 1981 and made in the USA. I think the 1981 refers to the copyright year for WB only, and not the year the cars were manufactured, but I'd be willing to bet that the USA cars and the Hong Kong cars were manufactured in different years and I'm pretty sure I got my Ertl set sometime in 1983 or 1984. I'd be willing to bet the USA cars were issued first, probably in 1981. And you raise an interesting question: Which year/country of manufacture car is more desireable? There's noticeable differences between the two Caddy's, just as you noted the differences between your two General Lees. The USA Caddy has a different windshield and the door handles are indents on the door, whereas the Hong Kong car has them sticking outward. The USA car is a slightly different shade of white than the Hong Kong car. The steering wheels are different. Have to admit I'm certainly curious now. LOL

Stormy, that big ol' yeeehaaa sums it all up! Cap'n, Tempest, and everyone else who's glad to be back: I second that!! =) Heck no, they can't get rid of us that easy! 8) Definetly a huge thanks to the hostingmatters folks for their tremendous help with the restore. Mufn and I are grateful that only a few days worth of posts were lost, as opposed to the entire board. Which really woulda sucked. LOL. And as Mufn said, thank you all for your patience and hanging in there. Y'all are great!

Hi folks, we're back after an unfortunate incident involving the board being hacked. Please be aware that any posts made after September 15th were lost in the recovery. Thank you for your patience and support.

You're welcome Tempest. I knew you'd dig this topic. Khee!

FREEEEZE!!!!!!!!!! ROFL Nah, I'll letcha off with a warnin'. This time. Next time I won't be so nice. MUAHAHAHA! Just kiddin'. No harm done here. Actually it was good because it addresses the issue and now we can all keep 'carrying on as we did before'.

Cooter: "What do you think ol' Burt Reynolds' be doin' at a time like this?" Luke: "I dunno but he'd be doin' it with somebody a lot prettier than you!" KHEE! I noticed the other General parked in the square. =)

Well we don't encourage open advertising of other sites here but we don't shut the door on sharing information with all Dukes fans. In other words, if you came here to HNet, joined the forums here and posted a message that said... HEY COME CHECK OUT MY DUKES SITE!! BETTER THAN HNET!! FREE BEER!! LOTS OF DAISY PICS!!! http ://www.mydukessiterocks.com ...we'd have to cuff ya an' stuff ya. That's a no no. LOL. That also goes for joining up and saying something like.... Hi, newbie here. I'm building my own Dukes site, not much there now but it'll have forums and movie updates and DVD stuff. And then we go and check out your site and find you swiped everything word for word including font style from Hnet. Well, we wouldn't dig that either and would have to cuff ya and stuff ya. LOL. Now for the case in point, there's nothing wrong with sharing information/site addresses in answer to a particular question or inquiry. However we prefer folks do it through the PM system if it's a link to a Dukes site that may or may not be endorsed by HNet (or they in turn may not endorse us. See what I'm getting at here? LOL). Official links such as news items from news sources (Yahoo, Reuters, CNN, ect...) , links to Dukes related products for sale (such as on amazon.com, ect.), links to Dukes references from third party sites (the photoshop pics that Doc has posted the links to), Duke themed quizes, ect. ect. are fine. If you're not sure, send a PM to the person you're replying to with the link and send the link to a moderator or admin too and we'll letcha know. In other words, we won't object unless it's objectionable. 8)

If they do release the unofficial companion with an update for the movie, I hope they correct all the glaring errors in it first. ROFL. Most notably, Daisy's yellow car is referred to as a Charger and a blue Ford Torino that made an appearance in a couple of episodes is also referred to as a Charger. More than that, the author goes on to say how there were always extra Chargers around so sometimes they would paint up one in a different color to use in an episode. Yeah right. The only....THE ONLY person who ever came to Hazzard driving the same make and model Charger was Cale Yarbourough and his white Dodge Charger testing race car. In order to help Cale get away from Boss and Rosco they painted up his car to look like General Lee and Cooter had another Charger that they painted up to look like the General. That error has bugged me from day one. LOL. But that's why it's the "unofficial" companion.

Nice!! I like the lightening graphic coming out of the door there. Kewl!

Here here! Once a Duke fan, always a Duke fan! Yeeeehawww!

ROFLMAO! I can just hear the tag line for that one "OhmygodtheykilledCooter!" Stormy, I'm still trying to figure out that alternate version you posted. Where'd you find that?

The game is scheduled to be released on September 28th for both XBox and PS2. Check out our preview of it. Includes links to pre-order the game! http://www.hazzardnet.com/fun-stuff/return-of-the-general-lee/

Those of you that have been asking about the avatars...I'm looking into it! I'll letcha know...

ROFL. You sound like me talking about the modern cars here in the US. BOOOORRRRRRING!!!!! LOL. There's a trend tho' for American car makers to make the cars more foriegn looking....which means they might still end up boring looking. An example, and I'm sure Tempest66 can jump in on this one being a Pontiac fanatic (as I am too), Pontiac is dropping the Grand Am model next year for a car called the G6. It looks like an Audi! And Pontiac brought back the GTO name plate but they slapped it on an Australian built platform that (in my opinion) is too boring looking of a car to be wearing the GTO name plate. Granted the thing runs like hell, has the V8, true duals (varoom varroom!) but....man, what a boring car to look at. Hopefully for '05 they'll tweak the design and give it a more aggressive look. I have to tell this, just because I'm nuts and I figure most folks here would dig this line of thought (and it does tie into the above). Along with the Dukes of Hazzard I also dig Starsky and Hutch and I got to thinking the other day.... S&H used a two-door Ford Gran Torino of the day and all they did was do a different paint job, jack up the back suspension and put different rims with oversized tires on the car. Made it look hot. (Although, according to Paul Michael Glaser the thing was crap to drive. ROFL) Anyway! I was thinking, if somebody were to make a tv show today, not necessarily an S&H type show but something that were to feature a current car of the day and do the minimum alterations like they did with the Torino, which car would be a good car to do that with? The best answer I could come up with was a Chevy Monte Carlo SS. I looked at various different cars, Dodge/Chrysler, Ford, Pontiac, ect. but the more I looked at the cars, the more complicated the changes to the cars became in my mind. I mean I was wanting to change the bumpers and front ends and make actual physical changes to the body itself! So after all that it only further reinforced my thought that modern cars are somewhat boring to look at. That was quite the babble huh? LOL. Sometimes I get a roll and I can't stop. =)

MaryAnne glanced at Alex and saw the concerned look on the blond man's face. She then looked at the rope in hand and gave a sheepish grin. "Whups...wrong bundle of rope, heh heh..." She put the bundle back in the saddle bag and pulled out a smaller stretch of rope. "Alex, I'm going to have to place you under arrest." MaryAnne leaned toward Alex and began to wrap the rope around his wrists in a set of frontier hand cuffs. "Although I said I'm apt to believe your story, you're still in posession of stolen horses and it sounds like there's a hell of a lot stuff to sort out back in Hazzard." She tightened the ropes and then settled back in her saddle and looked at Alex. He seemed disappointed. "Don't get me wrong... I'm not forgetting your voluntary surrender here, or that you've given up your guns and have told me what's going on. Believe me, that's worth a lot to me, which in turn will be worth a lot to you. But until I can get my own fix on the situation back in town, and find out what's happened to Brian, I have to do things my own certain way. I'm sure you understand..." (Cue Alex!)

"Well..." MaryAnne said thoughtfully. "That's quite a yarn you've spun. More than that I'm apt to believe ya." The young deputy sighed. "Rosco must have his hands full. Why is it when I leave town for a few days the whole place goes to heck?" she asked rhetorically. She sighed and looked at Alex. "Still tho', you're towing around stolen horses which makes you guilty of something...." MaryAnne reached into one of her saddle bags and pulled out a good sized bundle of rope. (Cue Alex!)

Rosco and MaryAnne glanced at each other and both let out a collective sigh of relief. "That is good news, good news..." Rosco said softly. MaryAnne looked at Doc. "Thank the Lord," she said. She smiled in appreciation of Chance's efforts and in relief, knowing there was a lot of responsibilty in what the doctor had undertaken. "Thank you, Doc." MaryAnne then looked at Rosco. "You and I still have work to do." She turned back to Chance. "Rosco and I are going to head back to town and try to find whoever it was that did this to Riddick. Will you keep us apprised of his condition on the CB?" (Cue Doc)

(Not to be confused with my fanfic character's 1978 Firebird. LOL) As promised, a pic of MY Maverick...