# Your-favorite-Duke appreciation thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 1, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629 "2002-05-01T03:45:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/1 "2002-05-01T03:45:21Z")
To Luke, my favorite Duke…
1. You shot those arrows with fantastic accuracy.
2. You came through that bout of amnesia swimmingly.
3. You treated Enis with nothing but respect.
4. I’m not gay, but when those flannel shirts came off, was anyone even lookin at Bo?
5. You never had sex with your cousin (Bo, anyway)
6. You didn’t lose your temper even after you found out Coy used the last of your Old Spice while you were out on the NASCAR circuit.
7. You used to let Bo think he was cock-blocking you and getting the hottest tail, but all the while he was really just picking up your slop. (Yeah, I noticed, buddy!)
8. Your name rhymed.
9. You were the second-most intelligent Duke in Hazzard County.
10. You were always a little uncomfortable with what that Confederate flag on the roof of the General Lee stood for.
11. You could really take a punch.
12. You never mocked Cooter.
13. There was always a trust between you and the chickens.
14. Running moonshine was what you did, but you never let it define who you were.
🙂
stv
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### Author:  [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/2 "2002-05-01T03:59:32Z")
I liked it when he became the Governor of American Somoa, and he made Zonker his Lietenant Governor.
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### Author:  [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/3 "2002-05-01T04:05:30Z")
I don’t appreciate him. He was a extraordinarly lousy actor, a redneck with no personal opinions (at least give Jane credit for that), and essentially a Hollywood prop. Naming an airport after him…I have to blush. Other airports are named after outstanding people. Nothing, nothing emphasizes to the world how immature American culture is than electing a president who’s qualifications were being a cheezy actor, and naming an airport after someone who’s already disappearing from video rentals.
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### Author:  [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/4 "2002-05-01T04:14:49Z")
Never mind…wrong duke…sigh.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/5 "2002-05-01T10:01:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \*
> \*\*I liked it when he became the Governor of American Somoa, and he made Zonker his Lietenant Governor. \*\*
Me too. But I preferred his tenure as ambassador to the Peoples’ Republic of China (“There is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent”), and as GM of the Washington Redskins.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/6 "2002-05-01T15:23:11Z")
And here I thought this would be a thread devoted to our very own **Duke**. I’m sure he’ll be along shortly and be quite let down.
:: sigh ::
😃
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/7 "2002-05-01T15:39:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \*
> \*\*Me too. But I preferred his tenure as ambassador to the Peoples’ Republic of China (“There is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent”), and as GM of the Washington Redskins. \*\*
Let’s not forget that he was the “missing, secret hostage” in Iran during the 70’s.
The Iranians called him “The Bald Spy”. He would fake various illnesses, save up his medication, & have a field trip to his frontal lobes. This never failed to scare the hell out of his guards. 😃
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/8 "2002-05-01T15:50:38Z")
Rarely, if ever has there been a song written where a person can start chanting the chorus, turn the radio off while continuing to chant the chorus, and after 3 minutes turn the radio back on and still be perfectly in sync with the song.
That would be why The Duke of Earl is my favorite Duke.
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/9 "2002-05-01T16:05:24Z")
Mike Gminski.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/10 "2002-05-01T16:26:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by scout1222 \*
> \*\*And here I thought this would be a thread devoted to our very own **Duke**. I’m sure he’ll be along shortly and be quite let down.
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> :: sigh ::
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> 😃 \*\*
I was 'till you posted, **scout** 😉
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### Author:  [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/11 "2002-05-01T16:46:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \*
> \*\*I liked it when he became the Governor of American Somoa, and he made Zonker his Lietenant Governor. \*\*
“Bad craziness going on down in the village.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/12 "2002-05-01T17:30:30Z")
Probably …AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL, his 1967 tribute album to the recently deceased Billy Strayhorn, his collaborator and the actual composer of the band’s signature tune “Take the A Train.”
Oh, or Daisy. Damn, those were some fine legs, weren’t they?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/13 "2002-05-01T18:35:26Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \*
> The Iranians called him “The Bald Spy”.
“…and that’s my final offer!”
OTOH, he was pretty good [last Sunday](http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20020428&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X) in billing Jim Andrews and his trophy wife for a succession of double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses. When I play Diplomacy, he’s my role model when he does that sorta stuff. 🙂
(I love having access to all thirty years of Doonesbury at [www.doonesbury.com](http://www.doonesbury.com). Their search engine even works, some of the time. :))
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### Author:  [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/14 "2002-05-01T18:41:45Z")
I’ll take _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_, please. Or maybe _The Searchers_ or _Stagecoach_ for a true western.
Can we imagine a classic Wayne western with score by Ellington and social commentary narration by Trudeau? Naah.
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### Author:  [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/15 "2002-05-01T18:57:20Z")
Duh huh, duh huh,
duh huuuh huuuh huh huh huh…
Well you think you’re bad with your rap
I’ll tell you pilgrim I started this crap!
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/16 "2002-05-01T20:27:01Z")
I’ll take Duke Ellington for $500, Alex.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/17 "2002-05-02T08:09:32Z")
Having been a child in Georgia when that TV show was on, I have to say this:
DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDaisyDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISYDAISY!!!
Wow! That’s been building for approximately 20 years. I need to go shower and smoke a cigarette now…
(By the way, a relative of mine had a role on that show for about one season. That was SO COOL.)
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/18 "2002-05-02T08:11:14Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \*
> \*\*I’ll take Duke Ellington for $500, Alex. \*\*
Just for the record: They’ve doubled the dollar amounts on “Jeopardy!” now, so there’s never a $500 question. Single Jeopardy! is $200, $400, $600, &c.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/19 "2002-05-02T14:34:51Z")
Shows how long it’s been since I last tuned in. So Double Jeopardy goes up to $2K by $400 increments now?
“I lost on _Jeopardy!_, baby,
oo, oo-oo-ooh…”
–Al
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### Author:  [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-duke-appreciation-thread/106629/20 "2002-05-02T15:05:02Z")
They’re a drag on the ACC.
Shuh-shev-ski (dammit, in 'murrica you spell yer name like you say it!) keeps bogarting all the semi-decent recruits.
'Twill be a great day here in NC when he finally gets hired away by the NBA and all those perpetually annoying ‘Cameron Crazies’ are left with NOTHING! NADA! BUPKISS! Just some peach-fuzzed assistant coach, left over from the third-string of the '92 season, who couldn’t get a REAL coaching job.
And we shall _ **LAUGH!** _ Oh yes, we shall laugh…
[sub]Go Pack![/sub]