Ha, some people. What's up lady and gentlemen?

Hummmmm.....

Quit yer moaning.

Moaning........what did I miss?

A bucket of sweat and a pack mule blended up into an unbelievable smoothie.

Bored out of my cotton pickin' mind!

I thought cotton pickin' was the fun, cool thing to do?

Anyone still around?

Everything...nobody can afford to miss a minute on these night threads these days...too much excitement.

Not much,

Just a story involving 2 sheep, a chicken, 4 cats, and grape gatorade.

I am but not for long.





Good night "Planet".

(Note: the above reply has been checked through MS "Word" to ensure that it is free of spelling and grammatical errors.)

What the hell does that mean anyway? I hear it all the time.

Just a quote from Tombstone. No clue where it derives from originally though.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I'm+your+huckleberry

1. I'm your huckleberry


I'm your huckleberry comes from a very classic and hot western movie called tombstone. this phrase means I'm the perfect man for the job.

Works for me.

Oh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

You going to Joe's on Sunday?

As long as my wife doesn't come home with a dog between now and then.

There isn't shit to do in Tallahassee. Looks like the nearest beach is 45 minutes away.

I'm betting you will be the first to buy a Brodie jersey.....


:p

oh, did you tell him about us?!?!?!

Damn. Gotta go work for a few hours. No fun until I get back.

20,500 Posts and All is Well !!!!






That is all

All is well? Who the hell are you kidding?

That's a crappy definition. IIRC in that movie, some drunken idiot is trying to get a young guy to have a gunfight with him, the young guy is reluctant, so Doc Holiday tells the drunken idiot "I'm your Huckleberry".

uhm, everyone but you????

I play for blood! - druken idiot
I'm your huckleberry, blood's just my game - doc


later
my beef's not with you - druken idiot now sober
we started a dance already, play for blood, remember - Doc
alright lunger - idiot

Some dickhead I went to high school with (allegedly) killed his wife today. I hope he rots in prison.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/7677997.html

You know what I hate? Getting an itch on the bottom of my foot while wearing tennis shoes.

that's awful

I hope you mean what he did and not that I want him to rot in prison.

I really hate it when that happens while I'm driving.

great qbs don't have to be huge in order to be effective...

croyle is 6'2 206...

and joe montanna was 6'2" 200...

very similar size-wise...

Still though, he looks so weak. NFL LBs will tear him apart.

if our two new ot's do reasonably well, the lb's will rarely get a shot at brodie...

and like i said before, brodie and joe montanna are about the same size, which really surprised me when i looked it up...

the departure of i-65 will do wonders for protecting croyle's blind side and terry might turn out to be servicable at rt...

of course with herm's offense, they won't have to worry about pass protection very much (because herm wants to run all of the time, no matter what)...

Look at GCs OTAs thread. There is not much difference between Green and Croyle.

I've become a pro at runing people off.

yo

I'm obviously not a pro at typing on this thing yet.

So...what have I missed? I haven't played here in a few days.

You were online last night, I checked your profile, and it doesn't lie.

Just came on to check for anything interesting. Didn't stay long, and I don't think I posted. I was online long enough to talk to my Mom last night.

Oh, so we don't interest you anymore. I see how it is, you're an icon now and you think you're too good for us.

You got me.


No, actually I twisted my ankle at work last night and finished out the day anyway. By the time I got home I just wanted to prop it up. I'm never on much Sun and Mon. I got no excuse for Tues, I honestly don't remember what I did that night. Wed I rented movies.


Tonight belongs to the Planet.

So it's just me and the Gawd Damned Nebraskan on here tonight?

Damnit :cuss:

Two more hours.

Did I mention it's Gawd Damned Nebraska history night?


Nebraska's soil has been farmed since prehistoric times, but the Native Americans of the plains—notably the Pawnee—devoted themselves more to hunting the buffalo than to farming, since buffalo, as well as the pronghorn antelope and smaller animals, were then abundant in the area. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his men were the first Europeans to visit the region. They probably passed through Nebraska in 1541.

The French also came and in the 18th cent. engaged in fur trading, but development began only after the area passed from France to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804) and the explorations of Zebulon M. Pike (1806) increased knowledge of the country, but the activities of the fur traders were more immediately valuable in terms of settlement. Manuel Lisa, a fur trader, probably established the first trading post in the Nebraska area in 1813. Bellevue, the first permanent settlement in Nebraska, first developed as a trading post.

Steamboating on the Missouri River, initiated in 1819, brought business to the river ports of Omaha and Brownville. The natural highway formed by the Platte valley was used extensively by pioneers going west over the Oregon Trail and also the California Trail and the Mormon Trail. Nebraska settlers made money supplying the wagon trains with fresh mounts and pack animals as well as food.

Nebraska became a territory after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The territory, which initially extended from lat. 40°N to the Canadian border, was firmly Northern and Republican in sympathy during the Civil War. In 1863 the territory was reduced to its present-day size by the creation of the territories of Dakota and Colorado. Congress passed an enabling act for statehood in 1864, but the original provision in the state constitution limiting the franchise to whites delayed statehood until 1867.

Railroads, Ranches, and the Growth of Populism

In 1867 the Union Pacific RR was built across the state, and the land boom, already vigorous, became a rush. Farmers settled on free land obtained under the Homestead Act of 1862, and E Nebraska took on a settled look. The population rose from 28,841 in 1860 to 122,993 in 1870. The Pawnee were defeated in 1859, and by 1880 war with the Sioux and other Native American resistance was over. With the coming of the railroads, cow towns, such as Ogallala and Schuyler, were built up as shipping points on overland cattle trails. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows opened in Nebraska in 1882.

Farmers had long been staking out homestead claims across the Sand Hills to the high plains, but ranches also prospered in the state. The ranchers, trying to preserve the open range, ruthlessly opposed the encroachment of the farmers, but the persistent farmers won. Many conservationists believe that much of the land that was plowed under should have been left with grass cover to prevent erosion in later dust storms.

Nature was seldom kind to the people of Nebraska. Ranching was especially hard hit by the ruinous cold of the winter of 1880–81, and farmers were plagued by insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and by the recurrent droughts of the 1890s. Many farmers joined the Granger movement in the lean 1870s and the Farmers' Alliances of the 1880s. In the 1890s many beleaguered farmers, faced with ruin and angry at the monopolistic practices of the railroads and the financiers, formed marketing and stock cooperatives and showed their discontent by joining the Populist party. The first national convention of the Populist party was held at Omaha in 1892, and Nebraska's most famous son, William Jennings Bryan, headed the Populist and Democratic tickets in the presidential election of 1896. Populists held the governorship of the state from 1895 to 1901.

Twentieth-Century Changes

Improved conditions in the early 1900s caused Populism to decline in the state, and the return of prosperous days was marked by progressive legislation, the building of highways, and conservation measures. The flush of prosperity, largely caused by the demand for foodstuffs during World War I, was almost feverish. Overexpansion of credits and overconfidence made the depression of the 1920s and 30s all the more disastrous (see Great Depression). Many farmers were left destitute, and many others were able to survive only because of the moratorium on farm debts in 1932. They received federal aid in the desperate years of drought in the 1930s.

Better weather and the huge food demands of World War II renewed prosperity in Nebraska. After the war, efforts continued to make the best use of the water supply, notably in such federal plans as the Missouri River basin project, a vast dam and water-diversion scheme.

Recent attempts to diversify Nebraska's economic base to reduce dependence on meat processing and agriculture have made Lincoln, where state government and the Univ. of Nebraska generate many jobs, a business center, along with Omaha. Among noted Nebraskans have been the pioneer and historian Julius Sterling Morton, who originated Arbor Day, and authors Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, John G. Neihardt, Loren Eisley, and Wright Morris, all of whom have vividly described the state.

Did I mention it's going to be a LONG two hours?

Have you been to the Lewis and Clark center in Gawd Damned Nebraska City? It's interesting.



luv....hurry up and get off work please....I have a feeling he's going to tell me the *entire* history of Gawd Damned Nebraska....:banghead:

There's going to be a quiz on this later.

Is it open 10pm thread? Or do we actually have to study?

Open book?

You're only allowed to use the notes you're taking. You ARE taking notes, aren't you?

Uhhhh....no.

Due to lack of interest in the "History of Gawd Damned Nebraska", we'll move on ahead to our "Round Barns of Nebraska" segment.

This round barn is near Bennet, NE.

http://www.dalejtravis.com/barn/nebr...pg/ne05504.jpg

That reminds me. I watched Charlotte's Web last weekend. I cried.

Near Fairfield in Clay county, NE.

http://www.dalejtravis.com/barn/nebr...pg/ne01802.jpg

Wha? Oh, sorry...the history of Gawd Damned Nebraska is so interesting I fell asleep there for a moment. When's the class on different types of corn?

I am certain he will tell you about the great cornholio.

What in the Sam Hall do round barns have to do with Charlotte's Web?

Good movie...but I still prefer the cartoon version. And I always cry.

A round barn is a barn. Wilbur lived in a barn. Charlotte spun webs in the barn's doorway.

Near David City, Gawd Damned NE.

http://www.dalejtravis.com/barn/nebr...g/ne01201a.jpg

Mmmkay. Are you done interrupting my presentation now?

What is the point of a round barn? And why do they only exist in Gawd Damned Nebraska?

Call me back in when Bug is done.

Stay! Talk about something else! Maybe he'll stop!!

Uhhh....no.

Hello

To counter the Nebraska-ness:

http://www.kansasphototour.com/images/rndbarn1.jpg
Info
My mother's family is from Mullinville, some still live there, and the whole area put a lot of time raising money and stumping for this restoration. A little bit of pride for BFE Kansas.

Well...they're not square. And I'm not sure they only exist in Gawd Damned Nebraska. I'll do a quick google search and see if any exist in Gawd Damned Iowa.

Oh god....IT'S SPREADING!!!!!!

er...uh....ehem....well.....

Sorry. got nuthin.

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:shake: :( :deevee: :deevee:

Talk about movies.

It's kinda like showing off tats, someone starts then everyone else joins in.

What's sad is this is the first cause I've had to stick a toe in the 10pm pond. :)