Brian Coltrane

Nice Elton John photo. Ya know, I've been wanting one of those "Captain Fantastic" pinball machines for years. Was one of the first machines I learned how to play on. Yeah, dynamine arrows at the outhouse would be fun, but I'm afraid we'd blow ourselves up as much as anything. Then MaryAnne would be running this place by herself. Some Dukes fantasies need to stay just fantasies! I do have an assortment of toy bow and arrow sets here in the house, with suction cup arrows. And dart guns, and toy shot guns with nerf bullets. (see earlier post, re: "chaos." ) After about 4 years of all shooting the bleep out of each other with the toys, we've effectively lost most of the plastic darts and nerf bullets. Someday I'm gonna clean the basement just to find all the ammo and plot an ambush.

You bet. When I was a kid, in taverns (which was allowed around here) I was given a big handful of quarters and told to go play pinball. I did. A lot. From there I hung around arcades, skate rinks, bowling alleys, wherever I could find pinball machines. Eventually when my favorite local arcade was going out of business after 30+ years, I aquired a 1980 Williams "Black Knight" machine from the liquidation sale. It's always been my favorite machine. I've had it for a couple years now and it's brought me a lot of joy. Sometimes I've left it on just to listen to the taunts that come from its digitized voice. It will suddenly laugh maniacally at random intervals..."MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!" and invariably scare the crap outta somebody in the house. Loads of fun! What I'd suggest for a neutral challenge is a showdown at the Midwest Gaming Classic, in March 2012. There's an admission fee at the door but then it's all-you-can-play, all day. Pinball, pinball, PINBALL!! There's also video and computer games but I go for the pinball. Machines there from all eras and all manufacturers. Well jeeze, I think I just hijacked this thread..sorry Roger! This does have something to do with the Dukes of Hazzard. Um....cousinly rivalry!! There.

Spoken like a true confederate of my real-life Dukes weirdness! Yes, you are livin' the dream, but at least your brother-in-law didn't set you up with the job. On an aside it kinda reminds me of the time we went shooting pool at the Boar's Nest in Allens Grove. That was surreal, too, until you beat me at pool. I demand a rematch. Preferably over something else, like pinball.

I'm sure if anybody can do it, you can! Show us pictures when you've added it. Ya know, you should do another bike up, like a Hazzard County patrol car. Be kinda fun to have one of your friends chase you around the neighborhood with it. Of course, you'd have to make sure that patrol car bike was a little slower.

Good grits n' gravy. I may have answered the question right, but that kinda lore gets bonus points! Great info.

And somewhere around the same era ( I think ) we had: I always think of MeadowMufn when I hear this song. Tho' admittedly, she's the one with the brains.

I know Roger intended this to be "fantasy" but the weird part in my case is, the truth is stranger than fiction. Which is saying something. I own a classic car, thanks to the influence of The Dukes of Hazzard and watching the General Lee sail through the air. My best friends are fellow Dukes of Hazzard fans that I met on the internet. Two of them live under the same roof with me. It's chaos, but a lot of fun. We've all gotten along great for years. Probably because we have the same kind of Duke-ish sense of fun and values and all that. We like stock car races, tractor pulls, county fairs, and whoop-n'-hollar shindigs. Two more of my best friends are Admins on this site. We talk about a lot more than The Dukes of Hazzard; we've seen each other through a lot of changes in life. But having something to work on together that's larger than the sum of us combined, is awesome. HazzardNet is labor, but it's a labor of love. So it's kinda surreal. I sit here with Dukes DVD's sprawled around my desk, still in disorder after the last homepage update. My Dukes fantasy? I think I'm living one. This is too weird to be my real life... About the only thing I haven't accomplished yet, is getting a farm. I've always wanted a farm. Doesn't have to be a real big one; I'd be happy with 10 or 20 acres. A few chickens, a beef steer, a couple horses. Grow some corn. Make some moonshine. OK, I'm kidding about making the moonshine. I might dink around with a home brewing kit for beer but that'd be the limit. All this happened over a period of a great many years, so it wasn't like I watched Dukes of Hazzard and instantly became a nut. I watched Dukes of Hazzard on a fairly regular basis over a great many years, and eventually became a nut. See what you can aspire to, with the Dukes of Hazzard? Awright, anybody else got a Dukes fantasy or real-life Dukes weirdness to share?

I just watched this ep so I got this one. Luke was the first to mention it. No promises this link will remain good, but some maverick uploaded this ep on YouTube. Luke's Robin Hood reference is around 3:45 or so in this link. He utters it just before blowing a pursuing Chevy Impala to kingdom come. (sidebar: as an owner of a 67 Impala, I oft took exception to destruction of these cars in this show. At least it was a 4-door, but still. I coulda used some of those car parts. Oh well, pound for pound, they wrecked more Chargers, didn't they.)

I'm gonna bring us back up to the 70's, with this pop-rocker:

Good stuff. I'll throw in this:

"Couldn't agree more, but we'll halfta settle for what the Boar's Nest serves. Kheeheheh. C'mon, we'll take Diablo, and I'll radio in for a towtruck for your car. Then I'll call MaryAnne and tell her...ah, I'll just tell her to meet us at the Boar's Nest a little later. She might need a drink herself after all this." *gets into Diablo, and once Jack sits down in the passenger seat, starts the car. As the black Chevy pulls away from the scene, the sun sinks low into the western sky, the remains of the day giving in towards twilight. The windows are down in the Chevy, and the clean country air brings the scent of pines and fresh-cut hay, along with a little road dust. The sound of crickets mingle with birdsong, nature's chorus making itself heard over Diablo's low rumble.* *Hazzard County truly was a good place to call home...and a good place for two former enemies to wipe the slate clean. This county was, after all, big enough for the both of them.....*

Thanks for the great signs, Hoss! I'm gonna have some fun with these around the house.

I'll throw in a personal favorite of mine... Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer I miss the old synthesizers used in songs like this...analog machines with glass tubes. Those things used to get smoking hot during a gig, but man what a sound.

Great tunes from everybody in this thing.

My bets are usually worse than that. But you're right, I don't seem to have any evah-dense of any such wager. Oh well! You can still try embarrassing me with the football season. On an aside, I once worked for a division of PNC, so I know more about the stadium out there than you'd probably expect. I also have a Steelers cry towel...er, Terrible Towel, that Pendragon sent to me last year. Such are my connections to Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, the Cardinals have taken the first game in the Series. Might be no stoppin' the redbirds this year. Anyone ready to call the outcome?

Thanks Roger! MeadowMufn is the real brains of the outfit, and handles the tough calls on technical matters. Me and MaryAnne, we just keep pressing buttons until something works or critical data gets deleted. As always, HazzardNet wouldn't be HazzardNet without YOU and all the great people here who call it home.

If it's any comfort Garrett, I'd rather see the Cubs in the World Series than the Cardinals. The Cardinals have gotten there plenty of times over the years. The Cards deserved to win this weekend, don't get me wrong, the Brewer's starting pitcher dug a hole in the first inning and game six was already over. That said, the Cards get to the World Series annoyingly often, when you average it out. I'd have rather seen some other baseball wallflower make the big dance.

Tim, I reactivated the link, and put it directly to the push bar template thread on the cglfc site. We don't mind the occassional link to wherever else, as long as it pertains to the topic in discussion, and goes to a relevant answer. I don't know where your earlier link landed, but if it was a blind alley and left the reader to "go fish" that could have been the issue. In the past we had issues with people putting up "go to my site!!" links all the freaking time; they'd register here in our Forums but for the sole purpose of acting as a recruitment agent for another website. Thus began our policy of keeping outside links to a reasonable minimum. If somebody sees cglfc links all over the posts, they may think it's OK to post links to their own club/site all over, and then before ya know it, it's outta control. And HNet gets in the awkward position of trying to explain why we're letting one club or site get linked to all the time, but not another one. Of course we know you, and Cap'n Redneck, and I was friends with Dale the Bold, may he rest in peace. So please understand that this policy is not singling out the cglfc but is part of broader policy meant to balance out everybody's interests - including ours. Thank you for understanding. If you have any questions, always feel welcome to PM me or any other admin here. Or email us at webmaster (at) HazzardNet(dot) com.

Howdy atlfan, Same thing came up on another post, so you're not alone in your thoughts. Basically CMT has been using Dukes episides to fill in the 1 a.m and 2 a.m. timeslots for quite a while. And the days the show is aired varies widely; sometimes it's on Saturdays, sometimes not. Sometimes it's only aired during the first part of the week, like Monday thru Wed...but lately it's been on Thurs and Fridays too. The sequence of episodes is random, and yes, they're ignoring the Coy & Vance era. No disrepect but I can understand why; the viewership is probably very scant for those episodes. While we're glad CMT is showing the Dukes at all, we'd love to see them in a better timeslot since this is a family show. Our prior efforts to contact the program director at CMT were met with a brick wall. As I said to the other poster, I'll try again, but I won't be holding my breath for an answer. Naturally, as soon as we hear something about changes to the Dukes timeslots with CMT we'll let you know. Every now and then I post a CMT update on the homepage, so check there as well, and check your local cable listings for the most up-to-date scheduling in your area.

CMT is using Dukes to fill up odd, late-night timeslots and they've been doing this for awhile. They are not airing eps in order, except if it's a two-parter, they'll air the second half of the ep in order. Thankfully. They seem to be rotating the same few dozen episodes and ignoring the Coy and Vance era altogether. Probably because the Coy and Vance era does not draw in as many viewers. We've attempted to contact the program director at CMT and we've been consistently ignored, which is a fine how-do-ya-do when you consider all the bloody free promotion we've given them over the years. I'll try again; I'm in one of those ornery moods.

Mark, as of right now you have been given full posting abilities. Enjoy!