From: le@lekno.ws
Louis Epstein wrote:
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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.
>>>>>>>>
>
> I have now passed both of them.
> Everyone who died younger than Lewis has vanished
> behind me.
And now everyone who died younger than Milosevic.
>>>>>>>> ...beyond Pickett lies Caroline McWilliams.
>>>>>>>
>
> Three days to go...
>
>>>>>>> ...behind her lie Bobby Fischer and Malcolm Young.
I have now passed McWilliams and Fischer,and am tied with 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.
>
> followed by Victor Sen Yung and Gene Pitney.
Richard Wright,Denny Doherty,and Tanya Roberts
appear in line behind them.
>>>>>>> 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).
Done!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -=-=-
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