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Title: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JakeStyle on August 23, 2014, 08:38:34 PM
He seems to be hinting, in his usual clumsy fashion, that he's about to drop dead, and that he wants a DU forum to be named in his memory.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025433174

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Sat Aug 23, 2014, 10:45 AM

Star Member Omaha Steve (41,929 posts)

Two red roses across the moon (no daisy a day dear)

Marta and I met in Mrs Brown's (a good democrat) history class in Sept 1973. I had a past. I was a rebel rouser before we became a couple. She had never been kissed. I would have probably spent a life of in and out of jail or be dead long ago if not for her. She knows. Through good and bad, we have been us for over 40 years now. We turned out to be two red roses across the moon.

She has an eye for beauty. I still have an eye for her. When I call home on my cell phone, the photo is Marta with our 3 dogs around her.

We have always thought our golden years would be spent on the deck watching the birds and nature in our back yard, Margarita in hand. Winters in front of a fire watching the snow fall, or just enjoying watching TV together.

It ain't going to happen that way. I was diagnosed last December, just before Christmas. That is why I'm retiring early near the end of the year. Some days it is a very hard struggle just getting through the work day. I owe progressives that passed the FMLA more than most could understand.

I'll be leaving the DU in the future, not by choice. I'll tell more when I actually leave.

Now I know why people put their names on things before they go. I've intentionally cut back on posts in the Labor Group to see how it will do in the future. It will go on. Omaha Steve's Labor Group has a nice ring to it.

In the last month we have bought a few things at estate sales I consider my swan song for her. A month ago it was King Tut visits the US commemorative panels: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rRlT88dfklA/TyCs3hJSHAI/AAAAAAAAB1A/qrFpGJKN0FA/s1600/king+tut+9.jpg

Over, but not out yet,

OS

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard." - Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon


And this stained glass yesterday:

Then he posts a bunch of pictures that I guess are from his favorite cartoon.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 23, 2014, 08:43:04 PM
 :violin:
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on August 23, 2014, 08:51:45 PM
Wish he'd hurry it up already.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5Z4n1TdSI[/youtube]
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: thundley4 on August 23, 2014, 08:58:12 PM
Kick it Steve.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 23, 2014, 09:00:25 PM
A few months ago, the big guy said he was retiring early because of changes in the Omaha city employees' pension plans.

He needs to stick with his original story, not tell a new one every time he posts.

If this version's true, it's of course sad and tragic.

But one's less inclined to believe it because of his previous allegation.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: thundley4 on August 23, 2014, 09:06:32 PM
A few months ago, the big guy said he was retiring early because of changes in the Omaha city employees' pension plans.

He needs to stick with his original story, not tell a new one every time he posts.

If this version's true, it's of course sad and tragic.

But one's less inclined to believe it because of his previous allegation.

Maybe he got tired of being accused of trying to board the gravy train and is making it look like he is truly disabled, or will be soon.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JakeStyle on August 23, 2014, 09:07:14 PM
If he's going to die, I'm sure that it will be a long drawn out affair with about 6 million posts thanking Obama and all the other wonderful democrats before he finally drops dead.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 23, 2014, 09:09:55 PM
Maybe he got tired of being accused of trying to board the gravy train and is making it look like he is truly disabled, or will be soon.

Well, the big guy's got to stick with the same story.

He's retiring early because (a) of changes in the Omaha city employees' pension fund or (b) he's ill.

One naturally hopes it's the former, and he makes the latter, if it's true, more difficult to believe because he already told something else earlier.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 23, 2014, 09:14:07 PM
It wouldn't surprise me if that worthless Cleveland ward heeler, pronounced dead by the CalPig a couple of months ago, outlives the lazy big guy.

But the lazy tub of lard has had crooked union doctors working to put him on disability for a long time.

He was riding in that little catbird seat back and forth over the main Omaha sewage intake lagoon, fishing out drowned rats and used condoms for years, having reached the pinnacle of his city career.

Then the crooked union doctors got him transferred to an easier, less odiferous job, scrubbing puke from the backseats of Omaha police cruisers.

Now he finally got a crooked union doctor to give him a first class ticket to the gravy train.

His terminal diagnosis?

"If you don't stop eating like a hog, you're gonna die."

Then again, maybe he spotted a tall, thin guy with unfashionably long hair peering from behind a tree in his backyard.

After all, he does live in Nebraska.

Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 23, 2014, 09:14:45 PM
"the DU"
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 23, 2014, 09:17:59 PM
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Marta and I met in Mrs Brown's (a good democrat) history class in Sept 1973. I had a past. I was a rebel rouser before we became a couple.

Was that before or after he knocked up the other girl.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 23, 2014, 09:19:04 PM

Trust me, I'm gonna nag about it.

Boiled down, the real issue here is that the big guy told one story a few months ago, and now he's telling a different story, about why he's retiring early.

If this current story's the truth, which one hopes isn't the case, why'd he lie the first time?

Now one sees why I have Great Difficulty believing anything a primitive says.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: I_B_Perky on August 23, 2014, 09:25:53 PM
I, for one, don't believe it. Not one bit. If he was really going to kick the bucket he would be on DU telling about his terminal illness in great detail.  It is just the way he is.

I could be wrong... but I'm betting that he gets on the disability gravy train, begs for money for his "burial" and then "leaves DU" only to return under some other DU screen name.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: thundley4 on August 23, 2014, 09:47:26 PM
WTH? Did he do another post and run? I don't see any replies from him after the OP.  Maybe that was his swan song and the next post will be by Marta.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JakeStyle on August 23, 2014, 10:03:09 PM
That's just his way, he isn't able to think fast enough to provide replies.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 23, 2014, 10:09:22 PM
If he's going to die, I'm sure that it will be a long drawn out affair with about 6 million posts thanking Obama and all the other wonderful democrats before he finally drops dead.

Yeah, I'd put my money on that, even assuming he didn't accidentally get someone else's diagnosis under the assembly line medical care system his heroes brought to life.

BTW, Steve-o, it's 'Rabble-rouser.'  Rebels don't need to be roused, they're already rebelling, and 'Rabble' is a much more accurate description of the dim-witted losers you were running with in any case.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 23, 2014, 10:13:31 PM
That's just his way, he isn't able to think fast enough to provide replies.
Nailed it. :)
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: USA4ME on August 23, 2014, 10:16:08 PM
Quote from:
Omaha Steve

Now I know why people put their names on things before they go. I've intentionally cut back on posts in the Labor Group to see how it will do in the future. It will go on. Omaha Steve's Labor Group has a nice ring to it.

Wow! So his whole life boils down to wanting to have an obscure forum on a kook website named after him.

William Morris just rolled over in his grave and threw up in his mouth.... more than just a little.

.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 23, 2014, 10:17:29 PM
Ambition... some people have it, some don't.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 23, 2014, 10:20:11 PM
In the unlikely event it's true, let's hope he lingers long and hard, and posts daily until the end.

The only problem is the big guy is sooo poor at expressing himself, he'd make even a gory, gruesome demise a boring read.

Sometimes I think the big guy is as boring as sparkly Mike.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JakeStyle on August 23, 2014, 10:24:38 PM
Wow! So his whole life boils down to wanting to have an obscure forum on a kook website named after him.

William Morris just rolled over in his grave and threw up in his mouth.... more than just a little.

.

It's a chore just to find the labor group on DU, the guy set his sights pretty low.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Mr Mannn on August 23, 2014, 11:15:48 PM
Steve isn't sick. No way.  I think there is another reason.
Steve is a union man and therefore LAZY.

His disability scams failed and he was forced to work with the cops...who won't put up with union goldbricking. As a consequence Steve is retiring the moment he is eligible. And finally he will get paid for not working--his lifelong dream finally realized.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 23, 2014, 11:18:50 PM
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Sat Aug 23, 2014, 05:28 PM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (110,610 posts)
35. My dear Omaha Steve...

You look good to me, still.

Kiss of death. The CalPig is wrong 100% of the time.

She congratulated the walrus on a post that ruined his wallduded life.

She pronounced the useless ward heeler WC Green dead, and he's too lazy to die.

Now she says the big guy looks good. Massive coronary coming up.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Tess Anderson on August 24, 2014, 12:10:43 AM
No, I think he's just being melodramatic again. His wife has the same obsession with death, they had that cemetary page on the graveyards of Omaha, or something like that.

On one of his FB pages, Steve implies he's going to be around at least until this September:

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Steven E Dawes
8 hours ago
Came in today to help with clean up at Spielbound. Its all starting to come together and the library is filling up nicely! We plan to open on September 2nd! —


Steven E Dawes This is a Board Game Cafe here in Omaha that's opening up in September. And no, I'm not one the entrepreneurs of this establishment, but I've been hired on as a manager. I've waited for something like this to open in the Big O all my life and I'm really exited to be a part of it.
3 hours ago · 2


https://www.facebook.com/steven.e.dawes?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab


Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 24, 2014, 01:12:52 AM
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I've waited for something like this to open in the Big O all my life and I'm really exited to be a part of it.

I don't know if he's really "exiting".

After stirring up the DUmmies like this, seems to me he's sort of obligated to end it.

All those autographs from 1960s and 1970s TV show bit players should make one hell of an estate for his family.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on August 24, 2014, 06:41:07 AM
His disability scams failed and he was forced to work with the cops...who won't put up with union goldbricking. As a consequence Steve is retiring the moment he is eligible. And finally he will get paid for not working--his lifelong dream finally realized.

I think you nailed it.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 24, 2014, 08:20:39 AM
I think you nailed it.

I'll reserve judgment.  I had a close relative in the prime of life pass away from a sudden appearance of cancer this year, he went from active and normal to dead in about two months.  Life is uncertain.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2014, 08:52:32 AM
After stirring up the DUmmies like this, seems to me he's sort of obligated to end it.

That's what I'm thinking too.

Remember Pamela, the demtenjeep primitive, and how she milked this "I'm dying" thing for months and months?
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 24, 2014, 09:09:03 AM
That's what I'm thinking too.

Remember Pamela, the demtenjeep primitive, and how she milked this "I'm dying" thing for months and months?
That's not "kicking the bucket"....that's "licking the bucket".
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: miskie on August 24, 2014, 09:43:12 AM
Kiss of death. The CalPig is wrong 100% of the time.

She congratulated the walrus on a post that ruined his wallduded life.

She pronounced the useless ward heeler WC Green dead, and he's too lazy to die.

Now she says the big guy looks good. Massive coronary coming up.

In other words- stick a $25 fork in him. He's done.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: 67 Rover on August 24, 2014, 09:52:58 AM
So, I guess we have one important question left unanswered.  When does early voting open up in Omaha?   :yawn:
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on August 24, 2014, 12:32:42 PM
I, for one, don't believe it. Not one bit. If he was really going to kick the bucket he would be on DU telling about his terminal illness in great detail.  It is just the way he is.

Just setting up the cesspool for a couple thousand "woe is me I'm dying" (maybe) posts.
(http://ts3.explicit.bing.net/th?id=HN.608038752285623403&pid=1.7)

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I could be wrong... but I'm betting that he gets on the disability gravy train, begs for money for his "burial" and then "leaves DU" only to return under some other DU screen name.
:rotf:

The sickness manifests itself in many ways.

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She pronounced the useless ward heeler WC Green dead, and he's too lazy to die.
:lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 24, 2014, 01:36:41 PM
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Steven E Dawes This is a Board Game Cafe here in Omaha that's opening up in September. And no, I'm not one the entrepreneurs of this establishment, but I've been hired on as a manager.

Sound familiar?

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grasswire  Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Fri Mar-11-11 04:15 PM

I'm opening a pie shop.

It will be structured as a "social enterprise" with all profits donated to music programs in the local schools.

It will not be just a pie shop, but a music venue where local students and local acoustic musicians may play together and play for each other and play for others to hear.

A "board game cafe" is possibly the DUmbest thing I've ever heard, including poor addled grasswipe Judy's pie shop.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: ChuckJ on August 24, 2014, 01:57:33 PM
Sound familiar?

A "board game cafe" is possibly the DUmbest thing I've ever heard, including poor addled grasswipe Judy's pie shop.

I believe that's a different Steve Dawes. I do agree with you about the idea though.

Could it be his son? They do appear to have some similarities.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 24, 2014, 02:14:45 PM
I believe that's a different Steve Dawes. I do agree with you about the idea though.

You're right. The big guy, the dying Bellevue Dawes, is Steven L.

Could be his son. Omaha North - Didn't the big guy move from there to Bellevue to ogle the high school basketball girls?
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Zathras on August 24, 2014, 02:42:54 PM
If Omaha Steve is on his way out I hope it's a long, expensive, debilitating and extremely painful ending of his worthless existence. As a DUmbass it's what he truly deserves for being the human being that he has been.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2014, 02:55:55 PM
Could be his son. Omaha North - Didn't the big guy move from there to Bellevue to ogle the high school basketball girls?

Actually, he moved from a heavily blue area in Omaha to a heavily red suburb of Omaha (Bellevue) because of the crime and decreptitude in the former.

It's like what the hippies did to Vermont decades ago, or like what the Pitts are trying to do to New Hampshire right now; once they're done ruining a place, they look for a different place to ruin.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2014, 03:59:54 PM
In other words- stick a $25 fork in him. He's done.

You know, I'm a very practical person.

There's a place for sentiment, and there's a place for practicality.

I wonder (a) how much in life insurance poor dear Marta's going to collect, and (b) if Marta can continue collecting her widow's pension off the big guy's city pension if she re-marries.

<<<marriageable material.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 24, 2014, 04:32:25 PM
You know, I'm a very practical person.

There's a place for sentiment, and there's a place for practicality.

I wonder (a) how much in life insurance poor dear Marta's going to collect, and (b) if Marta can continue collecting her widow's pension off the big guy's city pension if she re-marries.

<<<marriageable material.
I'm sure there's some kind of survivor's benefit built in to the absurdly generous public employees' pension plan in Omaha.

But the big guy labored without any useful education, with a work ethic tending to indolence, and apparently without a winning personality (multiple tries for union office, always finishing last). As a result, he'll be retiring from about the lowest rung on the public gravy train ladder.

The pension for a puke scrubber, even from the generous city, must be a pittance, further reduced by his young age.

Also, the absurdly generous life insurance given to public employees either goes away or is hugely reduced upon retirement.

It's doubtful the big guy has any other life insurance, since he's always spent all disposable income on travel to collect the autographs of bit players in old TV shows.

Unless there's an explosion of interest in actors who portrayed unnamed German soldiers in "Combat!" back in the mid-60s, Marta is out of luck, and coach is best advised to remain a bachelor.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Tess Anderson on August 24, 2014, 05:45:33 PM
You're right. The big guy, the dying Bellevue Dawes, is Steven L.

Could be his son. Omaha North - Didn't the big guy move from there to Bellevue to ogle the high school basketball girls?

Yeah, checked again, and that is his son, Steven E. He always omits his grown children and he has a daughter named Bobbi by another woman other than Marta. He just met her for the first time in 2007, when Bobbi was around 33 years old.

I'm beginning to think he did get some bad news from the doctor:

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Response to jwirr (Reply #24)

Sun Aug 24, 2014, 04:45 PM

 Omaha Steve (41,931 posts)

72. Marta works in IT

 
She can work from home most of the time except for a special project once in a while. She has been told she can work from home all she needs while taking care of me. So we still have some time left together. Some of it on the deck.

but being the DUmmy that he is, he had to go make the rest of the DUmp miserable as well.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 24, 2014, 06:04:24 PM
They should name LocoNuts's movie group after the big guy.

Then they could both be dead.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Carl on August 24, 2014, 08:50:56 PM
He is a DUmp crazy and likely hypochondriac that is fixated on the disability gravy train.
It would take all of 2 minutes for him to convince himself he is about to enter eternities roaster but most likely he will suck the public teat for years to come.  :censored:
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 24, 2014, 08:51:43 PM
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Sun Aug 24, 2014, 04:45 PM
Omaha Steve (41,931 posts)

72. Marta works in IT

She can work from home most of the time except for a special project once in a while. She has been told she can work from home all she needs while taking care of me. So we still have some time left together. Some of it on the deck.
Yeah.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 24, 2014, 09:00:50 PM
Yeah.

Poor dear Marta's been taking care of the tub of lard all his married life.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 24, 2014, 09:12:06 PM
Poor dear Marta's been taking care of the tub of lard all his married life.
Why am I reminded of the one-legged whale in Las Vegas?
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Airwolf on August 24, 2014, 11:38:52 PM
I would think that Steve's friends in the Omaha area would know about this as well and this is the first I've heard of this.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 25, 2014, 02:12:42 AM
When does the big guy start asking DUmmies for donations?
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Gina on August 25, 2014, 07:58:34 AM
I, for one, don't believe it. Not one bit. If he was really going to kick the bucket he would be on DU telling about his terminal illness in great detail.  It is just the way he is.

I could be wrong... but I'm betting that he gets on the disability gravy train, begs for money for his "burial" and then "leaves DU" only to return under some other DU screen name.

Yep, I see a fundraiser coming up.  Mini tacos for everyone!

(http://ih3.redbubble.net/image.12843230.5940/sticker,375x360.png)
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: fatboy on August 25, 2014, 08:29:42 AM
Seems like a good time for all the DUmmies to get together and send out some healing vibes en mass.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 25, 2014, 09:03:57 AM
I would think that Steve's friends in the Omaha area would know about this as well and this is the first I've heard of this.

Since the big guy's so eager to announce his upcoming demise--which might, or might not, be true, given how the primitives lie so much--I think it'd be nice if he offered a schedule too.

No one, not even the best scientific and medical minds, can predict exactly when a death might occur, but they can discern a general idea--three months, six months, nine months, a year.

I think the big guy should tell the primitives how much time the professionals predict he's got left.

That way, I'd be able to make up a strategy for courting and wooing Marta, so as to get in on the life insurance proceeds.

(note for primitives who don't understand humor and irony: of course if the big guy's really got a limited time left in this time and place, I really think he should toss the primitives and Skins's island overboard, and instead spend his remaining time with his grandchildren.)

Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 25, 2014, 10:12:17 AM
Seems like a good time for all the DUmmies to get together and send out some healing vibes en mass.
They did.....unfortunately, they were misdirected and caused an earth quake in California.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: landofconfusion80 on August 25, 2014, 10:17:15 AM
Healing hand gesture headed to Omaha!

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Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: fatboy on August 25, 2014, 02:36:30 PM
They did.....unfortunately, they were misdirected and caused an earth quake in California.

And I thought that was caused by fracking in upstate New York!
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Zathras on August 25, 2014, 02:40:59 PM
Sound familiar?

A "board game cafe" is possibly the DUmbest thing I've ever heard, including poor addled grasswipe Judy's pie shop.


That "board game cafe" sounds alot like the game store I frequent. Basically it's a game store that also has a room or two for people to play the games they sell there. The one I go to also holds tournaments and special events for the games they sell.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: BadCat on August 25, 2014, 09:09:58 PM
If he really dies (and painfully I hope), let's take up a collection and put the text from www.electstevedawes.com on his tombstone.  That was definitely the high point of his worthless life.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on August 26, 2014, 07:01:49 AM
If he really dies (and painfully I hope), let's take up a collection and put the text from www.electstevedawes.com on his tombstone.  That was definitely the high point of his worthless life.

 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

That was classic, and so richly deserved.

I warned the big guy many times, sometimes daily, that such a thing was coming, and he paid no attention.  And aware of his density, I made sure to warn him in plain simple sixth-grade English that unless he did something to pre-empt it (even suggesting what the big guy could do, to pre-empt it), it was coming.....and he paid no attention.

Perhaps the next primitive won't be so dismissive of franksolich's advice and counsel.

Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Airwolf on August 31, 2014, 11:18:54 PM



That "board game cafe" sounds alot like the game store I frequent. Basically it's a game store that also has a room or two for people to play the games they sell there. The one I go to also holds tournaments and special events for the games they sell.


The board game cafe isn't that bad of an idea for those kids that still play D&D and other games. There has been a gaming convention held in Omaha for close to 25 years called Nuke -Con, I helped getting it started. The local gamers only have some comic book stores and their homes to play games and one more place is probably more then welcome,the problem is will it make enough to stay open where it;s located
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Chris_ on August 31, 2014, 11:26:09 PM
We used to have one of those here when I was in high school.  It went out of business once people were able to play games online and Dungeons & Dragons went out of style ("Games Extraordinaire" for any long-term residents).  The building it was housed in is still there but has changed hands a few times.  I think it's a law office-slash-massage parlor now.

I found a local shop that still sells merchandise, but they don't have a place for game-playing.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: I_B_Perky on August 31, 2014, 11:55:03 PM
Well he ain't dead yet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014885221 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014885221)
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: franksolich on September 01, 2014, 08:43:18 AM
Well he ain't dead yet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014885221 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014885221)

Well now, you make it sound as if you're impatient.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: GOBUCKS on September 01, 2014, 01:12:30 PM
Well now, you make it sound as if you're impatient.

Not that much a rush on the big guy.

He's a waste of taxpayers' money, but so far it's just at various menial, entry-level jobs.

DUmmy WC Green is the one who really needs to get a move on.

He's soaking up tax money like water going over Niagara Falls.
Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: Zathras on September 01, 2014, 02:38:09 PM

The board game cafe isn't that bad of an idea for those kids that still play D&D and other games. There has been a gaming convention held in Omaha for close to 25 years called Nuke-Con I helped getting started. The local gamers only have some comic book stores and their homes to play games and one more place is probably more then welcome. The problem is will it make enough to stay open where it's located.

The one I play at, Game Kastle in Santa Clara Ca., has people playing all sorts of games, from historical miniatures to card games like Magic the Gathering and Pokémon (the kids love that one). The ages of the participants range from the very young to the 60+ crowd. As for the business staying open? As a gamer myself, I wish them luck as more places for people to play can only be a good thing but, as Omaha Steve is involved, I fear that it's not long for the business world. DUmbasses bring nothing but ruin to the world and OS in no exception.

Title: Re: Is Omaha Steve about to kick the bucket?
Post by: I_B_Perky on September 01, 2014, 07:03:54 PM
Well now, you make it sound as if you're impatient.

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Me? Impatient?  :whistling: :whistling:


H5 for that one Frank!