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:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> 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,   
      
   They are now the furthest behind of the list I have surpassed.   
      
   >>>>>>>> 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...   
      
   With him gone,next comes Johnny Paycheck...   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   ...Donna Reed is next beyond Van Cleef.   
      
   >> 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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