> 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) .
/// OK. I think this show went on french TV some years ago but I never got to
watch it.
> Smokey and the Bandit (1977) starred Burt Reynolds as "The Bandit", and
> Jackie Gleason as Sherrif Buford T. Justice.
/// Oh yeah - how could I forget this name !
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)
/// I am in awe of your knowledge about such things !
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