This dude just said he would give his brother head for 4 dollars.

ROFL You not funny!

why would you need four dollars that bad?

She was just lieing to get into your pants....

Super Sonic Cheeseburger and a small cherry limeade...

I feel so used!

I will never ever ever ever be that hungry....

welcome to the club....

You hope you never get that hungry....

This is a pretty good AFL game on right now...

Sure beats watching baseball...

what teams...

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LA and AZ...

I think your commatard is on the loose....

HEY EVERYBODY!

yup


eating some left over smoked brisket and starting two freeroll hole'em tourneys on Ultimate bet and full tilt....

Holy Balls, 1,073 pages

This thread is the energizer bunny.

I'm thinking more "night of the living dead"

Hello LOSERS!!!

Night all....

being a pussy and heading to bed.

Hey Guru, night reerun

Where the hell has Luv been?

Hey winners!

hi

good question.



she was on earlier

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...8&postcount=53

Hello to Tiny and Simply

Guess I just keep missing her then. Seems like when I have been online lately, she hasn't been.

Carns State Aid Bridge

County Road over the Niobrara River
10.8 Miles Northeast of Bassett
Rock / Keya Paha Counties, Nebraska
Total Length: 527 ft.
Roadway Width: 14 ft.
5-Span, Concrete Filled Spandrel Arch 2-Span, Parker and Pratt Through Truss
TYPE: Concrete filled spandrel arch, with Pratt and Parker through trusses
BUILT: 1912-13 by the Lincoln Construction Company
C007522105

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/nediv/bridges/carns.jpg

After years of almost continuous repairs, the timber bridge over the Niobrara River at Carns was finally wrecked by ice in the winter of 1910. That April, the Brown and Keya Paha county boards resolved unanimously that "the best and lasting benefits to the people of both counties would be the building and erection of a new steel bridge." Paying for the bridge would be difficult, but the commissioners' prospects improved substantially when the state legislature passed the State Aid Bridge Law in 1911. They applied for and got state assistance to build the bridge that year. The Nebraska State Engineer approved plans for two 160-foot steel spans, which had been presented by the Western Bridge and Construction Company. But at the bid opening all bids were rejected because, as reported by the state engineer, "it was evident there had been no competition in the bidding."

The project was stalled until the following May, when the Lincoln Construction Company was awarded the contract. The steel truss design had by then been scrapped in favor of a concrete structure composed of six 54-foot spans. The Carns Bridge was completed in the summer of 1913. It ultimately proved too narrow for this crossing, however, and in 1962 one of the bridge's six spans, along with several hundred feet of approach, washed out. This span was replaced, and the bridge extended by the addition of two salvaged trusses, including a Parker truss obtained from the Schuyler State Aid Bridge over the Platte River between Colfax and Butler counties.

Although this latter construction has altered its appearance, the Carns State Aid Bridge is historically important as the oldest remaining structure built under Nebraska's state aid bridge program. Forming an important river crossing in this sparsely settled part of the state, it represents the success of the state aid program in providing major bridges for counties perennially strapped for funds.

Did you piss her off?

Not that I am aware of.

unnamed bridge

County Road over Unnamed Stream
1.5 Miles Southwest of Nebraska City
Otoe County, Nebraska
Total Length: 28 ft.
Roadway Width: 13.8 ft.
1-Span, Concrete Filled Spandrel Arch
BUILT: 1912 by the Kimballton Construction Company
C006601805P

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/nediv/bridges/unname1.jpg

This small-scale concrete bridge carries a gravel-surfaced county road over a small unnamed watercourse southwest of Nebraska City. The structure dates to 1912. On February 6, the Otoe County Commissioners awarded a contract to erect this 24-foot concrete arch to the Kimballton Construction Company of Kimballton, Iowa. The contract specified that the arch be complete with wingwalls, have 8-inch wide 3-foot high guardrails, and a 16-foot roadway width. The contractors completed the bridge that spring, and it has carried vehicular traffic since in unaltered and well-preserved condition. As one of a handful of concrete arches remaining in Otoe County, this bridge is noteworthy for its high degree of detailing and quality workmanship.

Do you miss me?

Traveled this past weekend, and pretty much slept when I got back. Just haven't had too much time to be on today. Don't worry, after 12:30 or so, I'll be on. At least for a little while.

Nice entrance, Luv....

Guru could never piss me off.

:)

Bryan Bridge

US Hwy 20/83 over the Niobrara River
3.3 Miles Southeast of Valentine
Cherry County, Nebraska
Total Length: 290 ft.
Roadway Width: 23.8 ft.
3-Span, Rigid-Connected Pratt Deck Truss
BUILT: 1931-32 by the Yant Construction Company
S020 19981

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/nediv/bridges/bryanlg.jpg

When engineers for the Nebraska Bureau of Roads and Bridge began considering the design of a new bridge to carry U.S. Highways 20/83 over the Niobrara River in 1931, they first considered a 160-foot through truss with deck girder approaches or a 300-foot continuous truss. But they eventually scrapped these designs in favor of a 290-foot arched cantilever deck truss. "Since it was considered that any structure of ordinary appearance would mar the natural beauty of the banks and immediate surroundings the arched cantilever spans were adopted in spite of the slightly greater cost," highway department engineer Josef Sorkin explained in 1934. Named in honor of Nebraska Governor Charles W. Bryan, the proposed structure consisted of a 145-foot arched span over the river, flanked by symmetrical anchor spans and supported by dumbbell-shaped concrete pedestals.

A contract to build the bridge was awarded late in 1931 to the Yant Construction Company of Omaha. Using a steel superstructure fabricated by the Paxton and Vierling Iron Works in Omaha, the contractor completed the bridge the next year. Since its dedication in September 1932, the Bryan Bridge has carried traffic in this lightly trafficked highway, without substantial modification.

"Aesthetic treatment of Nebraska bridges is seldom economically justifiable due to the alluvial character of the streams - typically wide and shallow," Josef Sorkin wrote in 1934. "The comparative cost of substructures is so small that only in very rare instances spans beyond 60 feet in length are acceptable from the point of view of cost. For such limited span lengths the steel deck girder type is most useful. While everything is being done to make such bridges as sightly as possible, spectacular achievements of merit are obviously limited. "With its steep banks and beautiful streambed, the Niobrara River lent itself well to a dramatic structural statement, and the Nebraska highway department took full advantage of this rare opportunity to flex its engineering muscles. Perhaps the most handsome highway bridge in the state, the Bryan Bridge is a singular exercise in highway bridge aesthetics in the state.

I'm not so sure anyone can.... FWIW

It takes a lot.

I've wondered about Joie myself.

I think Bugeater needs to start a Berrylium spinoff thread on his Gawd Damn Nebraskian bridges

I like this one.

Oh, I can think of one who can.

Good to see ya online again. I think last Tuesday was the last time I really saw ya online.

Sutherland State Aid Bridge

County Road over the North Platte River
4.2 Miles North of Sutherland
Lincoln County, Nebraska
Total Length: 795 ft.
Roadway Width: 16 ft.
14-Span, Concrete Filled Spandrel Arch
C005661710

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/nediv/bridges/suther.jpg


BUILT: 1914-15 by the Lincoln Construction Company

By 1912 the existing timber pile bridge over the North Platte River north of Sutherland had deteriorated beyond repair. Citizens in Birdwood Precinct where the bridge lay voted a bond issue in April, and the county for its part secured assistance from the state aid bridge fund. Early in 1914 the Nebraska State Engineer produced six alternate designs for a multiple-span concrete structure here. The designs delineated fourteen 50-foot concrete arches or 23 33-foot concrete girders, with a variety of substructures and either 16-foot roadways or 12-foot roadways with a turnout at the bridge's center.

After soliciting bids in April for the Birdwood Bridge (so named for the precinct), Lincoln County awarded the contract to the Lincoln Construction Company for the arches on wood pile foundations. The Lincoln-based firm began soon thereafter, assembling a sizable crew at the site. Work progressed throughout the remainder of 1914 and into the following year. At the end of December, 1915, the immense structure, by now called the Sutherland State Aid Bridge, was completed. Total cost: $36,345. The Sutherland Bridge has carried traffic since, in unaltered condition.

The Sutherland State Aid Bridge is historically significant as a regionally important crossing of the North Platte River along the state's heavily settled Platte River corridor. This remarkable structure is technologically significant as the best example in Nebraska of concrete arch construction. Of the 17 multiple-span concrete arch bridges built under the state aid program in the 1910s and 1920s, all but the Sutherland Bridge have been destroyed or substantially altered, leaving this structure as the sole intact example of this important construction trend. The Missouri River bridges aside, the Sutherland State Aid Bridge is the most important vehicular span in Nebraska.

Don't think for a second that I didn't see this. :cuss:

Piss me off? Irritate me, maybe.

sorry, I miss Joie too, that's what it was.....
but I also miss SamHall's Cat pictures now.

Well, if that whole thread was just irritated then I misread it. :)

Night

P P P P P P P P P PUSSY!!!!

as it would for most normal redblooded american males.

ROFL

Hey Guru, how'd the trip to st. louie treat you, I remember reading it some, the hotel story, but what about the magic house, etc. Where did youtake the kids?

My boys just got here friday, we are going to the magic house tomorrow. and the city musuem later.

It was fun. Magic House was a revisit for us. Nothing much changed. Great for small kids though.

City Museum was kind of a headache though. Constantly trying to keep track of three kids in that place is really taxing. Don't get me wrong, it is a very cool place but was more than I really needed to take on during our last day of the vacation.

I bet, I have two, ten and eight, last time we went though the youngest didn't want to leave my side, so I really only had to pay attention to one, next time I have to dress more appropriately and get into the mix better, no flipflops for sure.

I am too tall for a lot of that stuff inside and weighing in at 224 did not want to test the limits of some of the stuff either.

Hell I topped one thirty last time, around one fifteen now, but it held me...

130 is a lot less than 224.

HA, I'm drunk, two thirty.....

So did you crawl from the bottom plane to the top plane? Sure didn't look like a good idea to me.

I did! It was very cool up there....

Quite a few MILFs that had to squeeze by me too

Are you guys talking about weight?

I've lost 45 lbs!

You went through the wire tube? Not the spiral staircase.

:shake: ROFL

:clap: :clap: :clap:

that's awesome, Luv. I need to lose five to forty five pounds myself.

yes

Damn. Missed an opportunity then.

Nothing like crawling through a narrow hole into the tail end of another object.

ROFL


the only spiral tube I didn't attempt to climb was the one inside.

Yeah, that damn thing was narrow to say the least.

as far as the magic house, I haven't been yet, my wife took the boys on their last trip here, but I was working.

It is, however, right down the street. Literally, the street light right by the house is the road I live on, just a few blocks. I used to run by that way, go downtown kirkwood to the trainstation and run back...

Damn, I could have met ya.

I hap-hazardly threw out the "right down the street" line and said that I just put up the trampoline for the boys visit. But I did not feel a bite on the line, so I didn't push for it.....


FWIW, I smoked my first brisket that weekend, and while I'm not opening a BBQ shop, it wasn't too bad, lots of left overs that could have been shared. :)

Should have just pushed. We would have had time to swing by.

sometimes it's hard to tell when you should, or even could, in this place we call the planet.

but next time, no excuses for either of us......

Guess I will see ya in a couple years then. LOL

Next year is Mickeywood.

we've been talking about trying that someday soon too.....

any CP event's or games in your more immediate future?


I know I am wanting to plan a trip or two to KC, maybe opening weekend but at least one game....


I went to Topeka West for two years and Topeka High for six terrific months. (IIRC you are in Topeka, right?)

Will be going to the Saturday events at Nzoners right now. No plans for any games this year unless Daface can find me another $25 ticket. :)

Yeah, I am in Topeka. A Viking. Let's start the Topeka High Trojans vs. Seaman Vikings jokes shall we. ROFL

PS when did you graduate?

God is awesome..

right when things are needed he provides

Thanks to God

now please pray for me that I overcome the great temptations that are coming my way for my increased prayer