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   Message 227,085 of 227,651   
   Louis Epstein to Louis Epstein   
   Re: Celebrities who died younger than yo   
   17 Jul 25 08:24:06   
   
   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >> Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>> 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?   
   >   
   > Looking back on this thread and on the current display,   
   > I realize that Boone is absent with Siegel no longer in a tie.   
   >   
   >>>>>>> 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;   
   >>   
   >> Having done so,I am in line to shortly pass Sammy Davis Jr....   
      
   I have now tied him...   
   Shari Lewis is next...   
      
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis comes into view behind Diamond.   
      
   Wilson Pickett appears behind her.   
      
   >>>>>>>>> -=-=-   
   >>>>>>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   >>>>>>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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