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:   
   >>>>>>>>>>> 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,   
      
   Now overtaken...   
   Jennings is next...   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Lee Van Cleef appears behind 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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