Have _I_ got a bridge for you!
mikea
and take them away.
<http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
Cottonwood Creek - Logan Co.
1910 Warren Trough Truss Bridge
Structure Number: 42N3000E086001
Posted:
Salt Fork of the Arkansas River - Kay Co.
1924 Modified Pratt Through Truss Bridge
Structure Number: 3606 0089X
Posted:
Watch this space for more bargain bridges.
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Clarjon1
> Free to good homes; all you have to do is show up, pick one or both up,
> and take them away.
>
> <http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
>
> Cottonwood Creek - Logan Co.
> 1910 Warren Trough Truss Bridge
> Structure Number: 42N3000E086001
> Posted:
>
> Salt Fork of the Arkansas River - Kay Co. 1924 Modified Pratt Through
> Truss Bridge Structure Number: 3606 0089X
> Posted:
>
> Watch this space for more bargain bridges.
Seeing as I'm new, could someone please tell me how far gone I am when I
first thought it was going to be a post about networking when I read the
title?
Lionel
I made the same assumption, & had a moment of cognitive dissonance when
I saw the word 'truss' in the descriptions.
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mikea
> On 18/12/2009 8:47 AM, Clarjon1 wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:16:53 -0600, mikea wrote:
>>
>>> Free to good homes; all you have to do is show up, pick one or both up,
>>> and take them away.
>>>
>>> <http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
>>>
>>> Cottonwood Creek - Logan Co.
>>> 1910 Warren Trough Truss Bridge
>>> Structure Number: 42N3000E086001
>>> Posted:
>>>
>>> Salt Fork of the Arkansas River - Kay Co. 1924 Modified Pratt Through
>>> Truss Bridge Structure Number: 3606 0089X
>>> Posted:
>>>
>>> Watch this space for more bargain bridges.
>>
>> Seeing as I'm new, could someone please tell me how far gone I am when I
>> first thought it was going to be a post about networking when I read the
>> title?
>
> I made the same assumption, & had a moment of cognitive dissonance when
> I saw the word 'truss' in the descriptions.
At least the Old Hands _ought_ to remember that I ork at WeBuildHighways.
These are chunks of highway that we're trying to give away. Another got
taken earlier today and is going to cross a lake in a city park not far
from here. How one transports a bridge is a problem I haven't
investigated.
--
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nothing.
--Christopher Monckton
David Cameron Staples
>> I saw the word 'truss' in the descriptions.
>
> At least the Old Hands _ought_ to remember that I ork at
> WeBuildHighways.
Yes, but sudden context switch, and all that.
>
> These are chunks of highway that we're trying to give away. Another got
> taken earlier today and is going to cross a lake in a city park not far
> from here. How one transports a bridge is a problem I haven't
> investigated.
ISTR stories of bridges being *stolen*, so presumably _someone_ has
solved that engineering challenge.
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Curious Gene
> ISTR stories of bridges being *stolen*, so presumably _someone_ has
> solved that engineering challenge.
Sargeant Colon was guarding a /different/ bridge that night, I presume.
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Curious Gene
> David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.spam> wrote:
> > ISTR stories of bridges being *stolen*, so presumably _someone_ has
> > solved that engineering challenge.
> Sargeant Colon was guarding a /different/ bridge that night, I presume.
Oh, for fuck's sake, I can't even spell Sergeant? What's wrong with me?
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TimC
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Free to good homes; all you have to do is show up, pick one or both up,
> and take them away.
>
> <http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
>
> Cottonwood Creek - Logan Co.
> 1910 Warren Trough Truss Bridge
> Structure Number: 42N3000E086001
> Posted:
>
> Salt Fork of the Arkansas River - Kay Co.
> 1924 Modified Pratt Through Truss Bridge
> Structure Number: 3606 0089X
> Posted:
>
> Watch this space for more bargain bridges.
Odot need to get in the business of ponies and flying pork.
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TimC
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-- Ernest Rutherford
Peter H. Coffin
> These are chunks of highway that we're trying to give away. Another
> got taken earlier today and is going to cross a lake in a city park
> not far from here. How one transports a bridge is a problem I haven't
> investigated.
I'da thunk you'd be reveling in the opportunity to rest on "Not My
Problem".
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The owners of these web sites know each other and at least one of
them hates at least one of the others.
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Jim
> >> I made the same assumption, & had a moment of cognitive dissonance when
> >> I saw the word 'truss' in the descriptions.
> >
> > At least the Old Hands _ought_ to remember that I ork at
> > WeBuildHighways.
>
> Yes, but sudden context switch, and all that.
Now you're bringing switches into it! Aaaaargh!
Jim
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mikea
> On 2009-12-17, mikea (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> Free to good homes; all you have to do is show up, pick one or both up,
>> and take them away.
>>
>> <http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
>>
>> Cottonwood Creek - Logan Co.
>> 1910 Warren Trough Truss Bridge
>> Structure Number: 42N3000E086001
>> Posted:
>>
>> Salt Fork of the Arkansas River - Kay Co.
>> 1924 Modified Pratt Through Truss Bridge
>> Structure Number: 3606 0089X
>> Posted:
>>
>> Watch this space for more bargain bridges.
>
> Odot need to get in the business of ponies and flying pork.
Been there for _years_. Remember, it's a gummint agency. We do flying
pork, jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, and ponies at the world-class
level. Our Director had to testify before the Senate Transportation
Committee earlier this month; you can't get much more ponies-and-pork
than that, can you?
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phasers on the Heffalump; Piglet, meet me in transporter room three.'
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Shmuel Metz
at 09:47 PM, Clarjon1 <clar...@NOSPAM.gmail.NOSPAMFOOBWAHAHAHA.com>
said:
>Seeing as I'm new, could someone please tell me how far gone I am when I
>first thought it was going to be a post about networking when I read the
>title?
Keep your mind out of my gutter! Just because he works where the wubber
hits the woad doesn't[1] mean that some of us aren't sick enough to think
of notworks first.
[1] If you haven't read them you should.
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
mikea
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:21:47 -0600, mikea wrote:
>
>> These are chunks of highway that we're trying to give away. Another
>> got taken earlier today and is going to cross a lake in a city park
>> not far from here. How one transports a bridge is a problem I haven't
>> investigated.
>
> I'da thunk you'd be reveling in the opportunity to rest on "Not My
> Problem".
Au contraire, mon frere. I expect the HellDesk to call me up and tell me
that someone, somewhere in the state, is having trouble relocating a
bridge and my help is urgently required.
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mikea
> mikea wrote:
>
>>Au contraire, mon frere. I expect the HellDesk to call me up and tell me
>>that someone, somewhere in the state, is having trouble relocating a
>>bridge and my help is urgently required.
>
> _say_ that you can't use it unsupported at one end.")
Which the HellDesk, in its message to me, will report as "Bridge not
connecting" or some equally transparent and obvious expression.
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mikea <mi...@mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> Peter H. Coffin <hel...@ninehells.com> wrote in <slrnhilthq....@abyss.ninehells.com>:
>>
>> Problem".
>
> Au contraire, mon frere. I expect the HellDesk to call me up and tell me
> that someone, somewhere in the state, is having trouble relocating a
> bridge and my help is urgently required.
Because they tried to email it?
Zebee
mikea
More like "Someone called us with a problem. Mike solves problems, and
this is a problem. Let's call Mike." You know, the "We must do
something; this is something; we must therefore do this" dance.
The sigmonster is reminiscing, it appears.
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acquisition and motivational research." -- me, optimist
Brian Kantor
There might be some interesting stories surrounding a
certain bridge now located in, I think, Arizona.
- Brian
Steve VanDevender
> Odot need to get in the business of ponies and flying pork.
The Oregon Department of Transportation (well, then the Oregon Highway
Division) is infamous for once creating flying blubber.
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Mike Causer
mikea <mi...@mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> Free to good homes; all you have to do is show up, pick one or both up,
> and take them away.
>
> <http://www.odot.org/env-programs/bridges/index.php>
86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I need
two. Oh, and the loan of an AN-124 to get them across the pond.
Mike
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Mike Causer
Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Mike Causer wrote:
>
> >86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I need
> >two.
>
> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
Not long enough. The banks of the waterways are so weak we can't put
anything on them, and the whole structure has to be supported from
clear outside them. So 105ft to 120ft is what we need.
> >Oh, and the loan of an AN-124 to get them across the pond.
>
> Let the cloud do it. "Hey, Bob, going to England? Take this small girder
> with you..."
"R.A.F." Mildenhall is conveniently nearby it's true, but we'd have to
throw the girders over the back fence. There may be trouble at the
front gate.
Bernard Peek
>
> Let the cloud do it. "Hey, Bob, going to England? Take this small girder
> with you..."
>
And did you pack your own luggage sir?
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David Gersic
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:29:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Roger Burton West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
>
>> Mike Causer wrote:
>>
>> >86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I need
>> >two.
>>
>> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
>
> Not long enough. The banks of the waterways are so weak we can't put
> anything on them, and the whole structure has to be supported from
> clear outside them. So 105ft to 120ft is what we need.
The 415' bridge would work. It'd be a little over-long, perhaps, but
it would mount well outside the banks.
Mike Causer
Fit THAT in your X-ray machine TSA! It's not on your prohibited list.
Mike
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SteveD
wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:01:33 +0000
But the extra mass charges - oy!
Mike Causer
Clarjon1 <clar...@NOSPAM.gmail.NOSPAMFOOBWAHAHAHA.com> wrote:
> Seeing as I'm new, could someone please tell me how far gone I am when I
> first thought it was going to be a post about networking when I read the
> title?
Good Sir, ignore purveyors of cheap modern electronica. Available for
your examination is a Real Steel bridge. Thanks to the development of
tele-transportation, the Brooklyn Bridge has been declared Surplus To
Requirements by the Relevant Authorities, who have exclusively
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Should this fine edifice, and its Revenue Generating possibilities, fit
your portfolio, please contact me at +44 778 949 6755.
International movement of bridges is no problem.
I await your favourable call.
Mike
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John F. Eldredge
Are you sure you don't mean +234 (Nigeria), instead of +44 (the UK)?
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than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
David Cameron Staples
> Mike Causer wrote:
>
>>86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I need
>>two.
>
> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
>
"Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
useful."
Peter Corlett
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:10:37 +0000, Mike Causer wrote:
>> Should this fine edifice, and its Revenue Generating possibilities, fit
>> your portfolio, please contact me at +44 778 949 6755.
> Are you sure you don't mean +234 (Nigeria), instead of +44 (the UK)?
Scammers are quite fond of +44 70xx anonymous call redirection services too,
because they look sort of like mobile phone numbers and some can redirect
across much of the globe.
Shmuel Metz
at 06:52 AM, j...@magrathea.plus.com (Jim) said:
>David Cameron Staples <sta...@cs.mu.oz.au.SPAM> wrote:
>> >> I made the same assumption, & had a moment of cognitive dissonance when
>> >> I saw the word 'truss' in the descriptions.
>> >
>> > At least the Old Hands _ought_ to remember that I ork at
>> > WeBuildHighways.
>>
>> Yes, but sudden context switch, and all that.
>Now you're bringing switches into it!
Hey, watch that S&M stuff! BTW, was the truss for B&D?
Jim
> >> Yes, but sudden context switch, and all that.
>
> >Now you're bringing switches into it!
>
> Hey, watch that S&M stuff! BTW, was the truss for B&D?
Why are you asking me? I know nothing about anything kinky. I've told
you before, I have _no_ idea how that Judge got into my airing cupboard.
Jim
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Lionel
Ah, so you've diversified into the bridge business, Mr Simpson?
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David Cameron Staples
> On 20/12/2009 7:09 PM, David Cameron Staples wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:29:14 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Causer wrote:
>>>
>>>> 86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I
>>>> need two.
>>>
>>> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
>>>
>>>
>> "Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
>> twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
>> useful."
>
> Ah, so you've diversified into the bridge business, Mr Simpson?
Simpson's individual bridgettes! A million household uses!
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Lionel
> in Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:22:00 +1100, Lionel in hic loco scripsit:
>
>> On 20/12/2009 7:09 PM, David Cameron Staples wrote:
>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:29:14 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mike Causer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I
>>>>> need two.
>>>>
>>>> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
>>> twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
>>> useful."
>>
>> Ah, so you've diversified into the bridge business, Mr Simpson?
>
> Simpson's individual bridgettes! A million household uses!
But are they waterproof?
Lawns 'R' Us
> On 21/12/2009 12:29 PM, David Cameron Staples wrote:
>> in Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:22:00 +1100, Lionel in hic loco scripsit:
>>> On 20/12/2009 7:09 PM, David Cameron Staples wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:29:14 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>>>> Mike Causer wrote:
>>>>>> 86ft and 415ft, damn. Got any at about 105ft (33m) coming up? I
>>>>>> need two.
>>>>>
>>>>> The 415-footer is in four 96-foot lengths (plus interstitial bits)...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> "Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
>>>> twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
>>>> useful."
>>>
>>> Ah, so you've diversified into the bridge business, Mr Simpson?
>>
>> Simpson's individual bridgettes! A million household uses!
>
> But are they waterproof?
Absorb water today with Simpson's individual water absorb-a-tex
bridgettes! Away with floods! Away with the dull drudgery of workaday
tidal waves! Use Simpson's Individual Flood Preventers!