Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Who Knew?




100,000 loyal fans attended DukesFest, a two-day celebration of "The Dukes of Hazzard," the down-home comedy-adventure series that was broadcast on CBS from 1979 to 1985. The annual gathering (held this year on June 3 and 4) is an opportunity for viewers to mingle with the show's stars, trade memorabilia, dress in kitschy T-shirts or simply watch fireworks or eat pork products named for the show's corpulent villain, Boss Hogg. But among this crowd there is a smaller, more dedicated group for whom DukesFest is a kind of mystical calling, a sacred convocation for those who can find transcendence in an event as simple as a car leaping over a ditch.

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2 comments:

Prunella Jones said...

Wow I bet you could see some amazing mullets there. I enjoying spotting mullets the way some people enjoy bird watching.

D. Prince said...

Are there many mullets in Australia? I guess they're pretty universal.

My eldest son picked up the saying "the mullet: business in the front, party in the back.

From Strange Brew (of course)