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:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   Having passed Young,Milosevic now disappears from the list   
   behind me...   
      
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> 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.   
      
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
|