From: le@lekno.ws
Louis Epstein wrote:
> Louis Epstein wrote:
>> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>> Louis Epstein wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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...
I have reached the age at which he cashed in...
>>> and...
>>>
>>>>>>>> beyond McFarland
I have a week before I spank his lifespan...
>>>>>>>> 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.
beyond her Flip Wilson appears in the distance.
>>> 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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