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:   
   >>>>>>>>> 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...   
      
   Now I am between Lewis and Holdridge...   
      
   >>>> 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.   
      
   ...beyond Pickett lies Caroline McWilliams.   
      
   >>>>>>>>>> -=-=-   
   >>>>>>>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   >>>>>>>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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