From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Having outlasted Music's last note,I next need to solve   
   the (Nelson) Riddle;   
   beyond McFarland lies Selma Diamond,and I see that unlike   
   the two Bewitched Darren Dicks,the database does NOT also   
   include the other gravelly-voiced female Night Court   
   bailiff,Florence Halop,who I passed in the past year.   
      
   >>>>>> -=-=-   
   >>>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   >>>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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