Re: The meaning of "hillbilly"

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_-3NJf8tf5bED0W4j1g4slHui6OWSljuN351IE6HVAokKnjX1jxnEWv2ay8hvljymzxNrA>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:07:09 -0800

The reference is to "Dukes of Hazzard", a TV show from 1979-85, and made into a movie in 2005 with all new cast (because the old cast are...old.) The Duke boys drove an orange Dodge Charger named the "Generel Lee", and often jumped the car over creeks, dirt piles and the like, where their pursuers could not follow (or would crash comically) .

Smokey and the Bandit (1977) starred Burt Reynolds as "The Bandit", and Jackie Gleason as Sherrif Buford T. Justice. Law enforcement officers - especially rural sheriffs - are called "Smokey" because they often wear the campaign hat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Bear_hat) also worn by the US Forest Service and its icon, Smokey Bear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_the_bear). (the hat is also iconic of US Marine Corps drill instructors, American troops in WW1, the Royal Canadian Mounted police, and the boy scouts before they went to baseball caps)

RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad R. Sabatini, Scaramouche

> /// Wouldn't these be allusions to a '70s movie with Burt Reynolds, 
> called...
> (I'm only sure of the french title) "smokey and the bandit" ? Or am I 
> getting it
> wrong ? Isn't Ernest Borgnine the bad sheriff in there ?

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>> >
>> > And then, of course, there are traditions of those who avoid the
>> > Revenuers. Perhaps two cousins uphold this family tradition against the
>> > more corrupt Lunar elements. They have Movement magics, especially
>> > Jumping, along with a special chariot/wagon named after a fallen
>> > General
>> > who rebelled against the Lunars generations ago. ^_^
>> >
>>
>> And that chariot would of course be painted orange, which is the color of
>> Orlanth. Or at least it was back in the '70s.
>>
>>

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