From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Louis Epstein wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >> Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >>> Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >>>> Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >>>>> David Carson wrote:   
   >>>>>> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 04:10:26 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>David Carson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein    
   >>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>tomorrow I overtake a tie,Joel   
   >>>>>>>>>Siegel and Richard Boone,which will presumably lead to one of them   
   >>>>>>>>>being listed as died at my age while the other remains on the older   
   >>>>>>>>>list   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I'm pretty sure it's going to show that both of them died at your age,   
   >>>>>>>> since they both did.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>So it did,but I remember a tie being processed differently before   
   >>>>>>>(one left the visible list and the other did not).   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> That was probably in the younger-than and older-than sections, which are   
   >>>>>> set to return ten records, no more and no less. The old-as section   
   returns   
   >>>>>> however many matches there are, which is zero on most days.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>So Slim Pickens and Shari Lewis (who died at ages about a month apart)   
   >>>>>>>both arrived on the older-than list,and Dick York and Donna Summer   
   >>>>>>>will both leave the younger-than list tomorrow.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In the meantime,without aid of Sherpa or piton,   
   >>>> to climb toward the lifespan of Pat Summitt.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have not attained the summit of longevity,   
   >>> but I HAVE surpassed the longevity of Summitt.   
   >>>   
   >>> I was surprised to see Lee Marvin still on the younger-than   
   >>> list as I thought he was the next to be dropped (I was tied   
   >>> with him the first time I tried this feature)...has someone   
   >>> just disappeared from the database,by 50-year rule or otherwise?   
   >>> Sorrell Booke is next for me to overtake,while Cheryl Holdridge   
   >>> appears in the distance.   
   >>   
   >> As I page past Booke Floyd Cramer becomes next to pass,while   
   >> Slobodan Milosevic comes into view behind Holdridge.   
   >   
   > The fifty-year guillotine has complicated things...I have   
   > now drawn alongside Cramer,but rather than Lee Marvin,who   
   > I was tied with when I first used this page,disappearing   
   > from the younger-thans,the even younger Dick York has made   
   > a return appearance,while both Herbert "Tiny Tim" Khaury   
   > and Waylon Jennings are in the distance behind Milosevic.   
   > As York's fellow Darren Dick Sargent has become the next   
   > for me to pass,perhaps the site is just bewitched,but   
   > I am not sure just who disappeared.   
      
   Having just passed Sargent and drawn alongside Ken Lay,   
   I must next face the (Lorenzo) Music;   
   Johnny Paycheck appears in the distance past Jennings,   
   and beyond him that rascal George (Spanky) McFarland.   
      
   >>>>> -=-=-   
   >>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   >>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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