Dixie Lee_01

Then I would say the General would win. Kitt has a heck of a lot of speed, turbine-powered speed the General could never catch on open asphalt - but he's not built for offroad running, especially not the kind of terrain often found in Hazzard (and you know that even if such a race is posted to run on the dirt roads, it will head offroad at some point...). The General has a more long-and-wide balance which helps with control around close bends and other maneuvers of that type, plus his tires and shocks are more designed for those conditions. I like both shows and both cars, but in this situation my money's probably on General Lee. (PS - I don't know much about the batmobile car, but my guess is that similar pluses and limitations would apply as to Kitt.)

No, that's not what they teach you in school about the Civil War, or much of anywhere else for that matter... I had to go through a college in-depth history course where I started looking at some old books to figure it out. You'd be very surprised at how much our history books have been changed in the past twenty years or less. My grandpa has told me that some of the things I "learned" in school about World War II aren't true either, and then told me what really did happen. He knows cause he was there. My Dad says the same about Vietnam. Scary, huh? That they (whoever "they" is exactly) would actually change written history, lie to the younger generations, just to fit in with a modern political/social agenda? How's a person supposed to know what's true anymore... <shaking head, wandering away>

I think it depends where the race is and what kind of race - either Kitt, on highway, or the General, on backroads.

It was beginning of the sixth season I think

I think, Misti, that what people are talking about was that the Confederate Battle Flag was the symbol of the Southern people at war for freedom's sake. Actually, although no one tends to speak of it such, the South was under a great amount of political and financial pressure from the North because of the more agricultural, less business-and-industrial powered nature of the Southern economy. Slavery was actually a completely side issue to the effort to secede, not the central point like people now make it out to be - in fact, the North didn't even get involved in that issue until *after* the war had begun, if I remember right. The Confederate States of America was not about a desire to oppress, but rather a desire to keep from *being* oppressed. It was about wanting to be able to make their own decisions and have their own leaders, because the politicians up in Washington and New York seemed to be far too far away to truly understand or care about the workings of Southern society. Nowadays, somehow, someone (probably the PC media... no-one even cared about PC until they got involved) has made it politically incorrect to use the Flag symbol, saying that as a symbol of the South it was/is a symbol of slavery and anti-black racism, when in fact the Flag, and the war, had little to nothing to do with that at all. Most of those who fought in the Confederate army were common men, not slaveowners, anyway, and in fact even a few slaves themselves were known to have fought on the Confederate side (probably those who were not only told to fight but were treated well enough to be loyal) - I don't remember where I read this but it was in history class, and an interesting point I thought. The argument here and everywhere about the use of the Flag, therefore, rises over two different opinions - the PC and now common one that the South and its Flag was/is a symbol of bigotry, or the historical view that only the Southerners seem to know anymore, that it was/is a symbol of their pride as a people and their desire to be free.

Thanks! <grin>

My small town has dirt roads... never jumped on one but I did off-road down a steep hillside once (to avoid an accident by some out-of-town nut behind me who was taking a turn too fast), and in truth I was able to do it because of watching the Dukes. So I have to say thanks to the Dukes! for more than my just loving the show. Watching Bo, Luke, and Daisy so much literally probably saved my own and my sister's lives since the hillside sloped down to the truck lane of a major freeway and *no one* else had ever taught me just how to turn the wheels to keep control of the car, drive down the hill without crashing or flipping over, and turn in a controlled manner before being struck by an eighteen-wheeler. I actually just drove right out of that one... Some of our buildings look similar... some don't. Most are probably about that age though. We have just one two-lane highway (55 MPH limit) into town, and we *do* have cops with speed traps, only in our case it's the highway patrol. On Thursdays you always have to be real careful because they're *everywhere* trying to make their weekly quota, even in town where they're not supposed to be. Our own Sheriff's dept is nice though.

<laughing like crazy> Ai, I love these... some do strike a little closer to home... heh... *especially* the one a long while back about your Dad weedwhacking flowers! Mine really did last year! Arrggh! My brother helped too... whacked the mint plants.... grrr... I love the pics here. Lol.

Lol... I really did call my dog "velvet ears"... she wasn't a basset hound though. And she's gone now... <sniff> And yes, I would sit through the marathon *if* I got CMT here at school (my sister did back home though), and I do know the whole cast. <chuckle> Only three out of many, but... maybe enough to count me, eh?

I think that the end episode was a fitting tribute to the series, in a way. I always liked it *because* it wasn't an "ending" episode. It was a bit deeper-hearted of a story than most of the episodes were (am I the only one whose heart is truly tugged on at Rosco's tears?), but it didn't truly end anything in Hazzard County itself. The Dukes and friends did not split up or go elsewhere... they stayed together and life remained the same for a number of years, until the changes mentioned in the Reunion movie. Personally, I just think that it was wonderful to have the show's goodbye be not truly a goodbye... more of a "till we meet again, we'll be here". I can't think of many series that ended that way. Something special, I think... Besides, it leaves wondrous opportunities for writing fanfiction, future adventures in Hazzard County. <smile>

Cousin Dave, I had a lot of thoughts on this new movie - upset and worried to say it mildly - but I don't have anything new to say after your epic post there. Yes, yes, you said it all and you said it very well. Hat-tips to you. However, there *is* a possibility that it might rekindle interest in the show... didn't think of that before, but it might. I hope so... because it would be awful for a new generation to think that the Dukes is just what the movie was like. The S&H movie was bad... but this will be a worse shock I think because S&H the show always did have a *slight* edgyness to it that the Dukes did not (after the first three episodes or so anyway).

My birthday is Feb. 19. Hello everyone... <smiles slightly shy> Do you remember me? I never forgot you - the best show and people on the Net. I'm back.