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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.
Lay is next to vanish now.
>>>>>>>>>> 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...
I have reached McFarland's age.
>>>>>>>>> lies Selma Diamond,
Ten days to go.
>>>>>>>>> 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.
beyond Wilson is Richard Pryor.
>>>> 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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