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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 1:37:45 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

RIP jeff... <tears>

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 1:43:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 12287

oh no.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 1:47:54 PM
From: SI Dave	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

That is terribly sad and tragic news. He was a good man. My condolences to his family and friends.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 1:52:44 PM
From: J.B.C.	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

Damn, very sad. My prayers to his family. Jim

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 1:54:07 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

I am so sorry to hear this, I hope his family and friends are well... my wife and I will light a candle tonight in his memory... GZ

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 2:55:30 PM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

I can't believe that. Gall bladder? I am so sorry. I will sorely miss him.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 2:56:45 PM
From: arno	5 Recommendations Respond to of 12287

Our community is lessened by this loss...

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 3:42:04 PM
From: Bill	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

OMG. Can't believe this. Such a great guy and friend.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 3:51:10 PM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

Oral was a very funny guy. Thanks for sharing the terrible news.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 4:13:06 PM
From: Peach	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12287

I am so sorry to hear this. He was a wonderful man.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 4:17:05 PM
From: Stan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12287

That's a shock. I enjoyed his posts. He was a straight-shooter. Does anyone know if his hometown newspaper has a website where we can post a thought or two in the obit section? I am sure his grieving family would appreciate reading some kind thoughts and remembrances from SI members.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 4:51:26 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 12287

R.I.P. Jeff....We will miss you, and remember your good cheer, fun, and yes, the deserved 'hoots and hisses' you have given our politicians. May your family remember all the happy times. Oh my gosh, as I was just typing that, a single Blue Angel flew directly over our driveway slowly. They are in town (Seattle) today. and I've never seen any of them come that close.... It was almost as if the Pilot was silently saluting Jeff! Jeff, Go In Peace! Karen, aka KLP

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 5:58:09 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 12287

Very very sorry to hear this news. I really enjoyed his posts. Go with God Oral.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 7:34:53 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12287

I don't even know what to say and that doesn't happen very often huge loss...SI without Oral Roberts....unthinkable

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/5/2010 9:03:34 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	8 Recommendations Respond to of 12287

I was at a customer site today and had a brief break before my customer was going to be with me. I opened SI up on my phone and went to check my PMs. I saw the message from you listing Jeff and Kristi's address with a link. I thought to myself "WTF?"...clicked on the link....and saw what you wrote. It took a minute to sink in that it was the ad astra thread. As it was sinking in, my eyes were welling up with tears and my customer came in. I took me a couple of minutes to compose myself. I just can't believe this. I am at a loss for words. I called Smoothsail on my drive home so i could get more of an update and we reminisced about Jeff. There's a lot that I want to say, but I don't really have the words right now. I mostly kept up with what was going on with him in PMs. My last PM to him was about 6 days ago...a simple "sooooo, how's your belly?". I never got a response...I wish I had called. I know that you and Jeff were very close. We have all lost a good friend and the world has lost a straight shooting great man.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/6/2010 3:29:06 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 12287

RIP Oral. Your family will be in our prayers. :-(

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/6/2010 4:14:52 AM
From: SmoothSail	11 Recommendations Respond to of 12287

Jeff was a much loved, much admired man here in our online community. He was a loyal true friend who brightened my day every time he posted his observations; shared his original recipes; bragged about his family - What's Her Face and all the grandkids; expressed his opinion - "What a crock of shit this is," was a recent one; Amused us with his excursions to Vegas, or the lake or just the backyard. You knew he was proud of his service to America as a submariner. Hard to imagine him as that skinny little kid in the pictures he posted awhile back of when he first joined the Navy. He was a no-nonsense giant of a man with a heart of gold. A man who went out of his way to be kind, who offered help, who was always there for his family and friends. Rest in peace Jeff. May flights of angles carry you to your rest and may God hold you in the palm of his hand when you get there.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/6/2010 4:43:20 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12287

That is very sad news. While I never physically met Jeff, i felt that I knew him; he had a great sense of humor and a distinctive voice. His passing is a loss for all of us.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/11/2010 12:28:20 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	8 Recommendations Respond to of 12287

I just received an email notifying me I am crushed you meet so any people on SI this man was so real, so human what a loss, to his family, to us he was such an honest man, so caring, open such a great sense of humor, impishly funny compassionate it was privilege to have had in my life though we never met in person, we had so many plans to but I knew him well and I will miss him what a loss [a shitty year for losses, so many, sadly I add Jeff to it]

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/11/2010 10:27:02 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 12287

I always enjoyed your straight forward posts. I will finally deep fry that turkey this year with you in mind. I hope you hit some hole in ones up there. My condolences to your loved ones.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (2947)	8/20/2010 6:59:05 PM
From: SI Bob	20 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12287

I took a really long time composing a reply a little over a week ago, researching past exchanges, rewriting paragraphs, crafting an elegant and typically long-winded post about this really tragic event, and when I felt it was done, I literally was hovering over the Submit button when the power went out. Just long enough to lose my words to the ether. I felt it was intentional. By whom, I won't guess. I've decided the intention is that I simply tell a short anecdote and express my feelings. Again, simply. Jeff has always been on the semi-sizable list of people with whom I'd really love to share a drink or several and, in his case, just listen to him talk for a while. I always got the feeling he did very little editing in his posts. Where I write and rewrite incessantly until I'm happy with what I've written, usually meaning it'll have the reader asleep before the end of it, I get the feeling he just types and hits Submit. And he uses profanity as simply part of the language. Somehow a profanity isn't profane when he uses it, usually. I'm sure a matter of context. Our only direct exchange was some years ago when I PM'd him that he was getting a 3-day suspension for calling someone a dipshit. His simple reply was that the recipient was a dipshit and he didn't mind a suspension for having said so. I reduced it to a day and the post remains intact. That was one of those rare times I had someone really shoot straight with me over a matter like that. He didn't plead ignorance of the rules or disagree with them or argue that the word in question wasn't one covered by the rules. Just played it straight. Jeff, you've been a key member of our family and you're really going to be missed by a lot of us.