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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
I have now passed Diamond-level longevity...
>>>>>>>>>> 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.
...and is thus now next to catch...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
past him is Quinn Martin.
>>>>> 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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