HazzardNet Once again this year, we’ll be having a Christmas Party in the Boar’s Nest Chat. The festivities start at 6pm EST on December 23rd and run until the last person is left standing, whoever that may be. And whoever that may be has to clean up and sweep the floor!
So stop on by for some good eats and a chance to yak it up with all your Hazzard friends and kinfolk.
All of us at HNet want to wish everyone a very blessed and joyous holiday!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
A brand spankin’ new month means a brand spankin’ new fan of the month!
After careful consideration, RogerDuke has made his selection for Fan of the Month and the lucky fan is DaisyMaeDuke!
The o-fficial announcement is as follows:
“If there was a dictionary of Hazzard County words and you looked up the word “fanatic” there’s no doubt you would find a picture of DaisyMaeDuke beside it. Because of her pure love and devotion to the greatest television show in history, we are awarding her HazzardNet’s fan of the month for December. If you’re not already sitting down, you’d better do it now because reading the list of Daisy’s accomplishments is going to take awhile.
Daisy was born at a very early age…. I apologize for the bad joke…..Well, she did become a Dukes fan at a very early age. When she was just 5 years old she got hooked on the show when it was originally being aired. Little did anyone know at the time that that cute little rug rat would go on to receive the highest honor possible. At DukesFest 2008, Daisy was justly selected as “The Ultimate Duke Fan”.
Daisy joined the HazzardNet on July 8, 2007 and this place hasn’t been the same since. She has over 5,300 posts since that time and has been involved in countless Round Robins and Role Plays. But, what Daisy really specializes in is Fanfics. She has written or co-written a long list of them including, Dukes in Danger, Lost, A Hazzard County Christmas, Turkey Surprise, I’ll be Home for Christmas, Witness, Switch, The Gift of the Magi-Dukes Stlye and Letters from War Series.
Daisy can very often be found frequenting the various threads on the trivia forum. She usually gets them right!! In fact, she has a prestigious record that will likely never get broken. In mid June 2009, she had answered over 300 Duke or Dupes correctly before missing one. To illistrate how amazing of an accomplishment that is, try going to Duke or Dupe after reading this and getting all three right. If you can pull off all 3 now try it 103 times for a total of 309 in a row. Answering that many is an accomplishment. Answering them correctly is impossible…well, almost.
Daisy has met nearly every living star of the show in real life, many of them multiple times. That list of stars includes Bo, Luke, Daisy, Rosco, Cooter, Enos, Cletus, Coy and even Sheriff Big Ed Little. She owns one of the largest collections of Dukes memorbilia in existence with way too many items to list but no doubt, every single one of them is special to her.
A resident of Michigan (Go Wolverines) Daisy has been happily married for 13 years and keeps busy with her two kids and her job in public education. Her favorite singers are (you guessed it) John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Her favorite Christmas show is (you guessed it again) “Christmas Comes To Willow Creek” staring John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Even Cletus Hogg would be smart enough to see a trend here. Speaking of trends, we’re predicting Daisy will be around the HazzardNet for many years to help us continue a the trend we have here of honoring our favorite television show. We almost hate to call it a “television show” because it’s so much more to us…..and that’s not just because of what we see on the screen. It’s also because of the strong bond we have here as a HazzardNet family. Folks like Daisy make the foundation for that family.”
Amen! Congrats DaisyMae on this deserving recognition!
Make sure you check out our Fan of the Month Community on the forums!
From our families to yours, have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! We hope you have a lot to be thankful for this year and even more in the coming year!
Some of the staff at HNet was recently discussing (or rather, lamenting) the fact that the Dukes of Hazzard is not being actively shown on television anywhere, at least not in the US. Last we knew, ABC Family Channel had secured the rights to air the show and instead have just sat on it. We’re not sure why this is. TNN and CMT made a fortune in advertising rev-ah-noo when they aired this show so surely ABC Family would be interested in making a few bucks wouldn’t they?
And certainly we can’t imagine that ABC Family would be embarrassed at all by having aired The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, with a scantly clad April Scott in the role of Daisy Duke? If they had the gravitas to air the movie, airing the original Dukes shouldn’t be a problem.
As it is, the program remains under wraps. Since the Dukes isn’t currently airing on a television network, the other possibility is Internet airings. This too is scarce. Sites like Hulu.com don’t offer the Dukes of Hazzard and Amazon.com currently has the first and second season of the Dukes available through their Video on Demand option, where you can download an episode to your computer for $1.99.
Yeah, we know what you’re saying. “But folks can just buy the DVDs!” Yes, that’s true, but let’s remind ourselves of how we all got here. We all became fans of the Dukes by watching them on television. And another generation of fans is missing out by not seeing this show on the small screen, without having to fork over two bucks to download the episode.
If all that wasn’t discouraging enough, during the search through the Internet for online Dukes episodes we noticed that Amazon.com and iTunes use the following photo of the Dukes…
Look familar y’all? It oughta…
Let’s face it. Daisy Duke wore some skimpy outfits in her day but for somebody (we might assume Warner Brothers) to decide to totally airbrush her windbreaker for a bare midriff and add extra cleavage is really annoying. Plus, airbrushing half the windbreaker out just looks plain stupid! They didn’t even make up some little tie knot on the front. It just all looks like it’s rolled up under her You Know Whats.
If that wasn’t bad enough it makes our Original Daisy look more like the Latest Incarnation of Daisy.
Awright, now nobody at HNet has ever been accused of being a prude. Ah, well, at least two members have never been accused of being a prude (geeze MaryAnne, lighten up!). But, sheesh y’all! We like our Original Daisy, in her original clothes, thank ya.
Incidentally, we think Bo’s shirt should’ve been airbrushed to reveal more chest. Just to keep things fair.
To all our veterans, we humbly salute thee…
Thank you for your service to our country and for your fight for the freedoms we all enjoy, yet, must never take for granted.
