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:
>>>>>>>>>> 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...
...now I have passed Holdridge and Milosevic.
Cramer and Booke are the next to disappear behind me,
H "TT" K is next to overtake,
and...
>>>>> 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.
...behind her lie Bobby Fischer and Malcolm Young.
I will actually become a better chessplayer than Bobby Fischer was at my age
for the first time since I was a small child (I learned the rules slightly
younger than he did).
>>>>>>>>>>> -=-=-
>>>>>>>>>>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>>>>>>>>>>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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