Re: Retirement

• From: cooterchekov <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:50:53 -0000
• Message-ID: <atr1kt+7ubv_at_...>

I for one am willing to believe it might actually *be* Isaac 
Bickerstaff. I mean, think about it: Cloning technology has been 
going forward by leaps and bounds. Once you'd cloned Jonathan Swift 
and implanted the clone with Swift's memories, it'd be no trouble at 
all to ply him with psychoactive drugs and induce a breakdown in 
which he believed he actually *was* Isaac Bickerstaff. Being 
knowledgeable in pre-Victorian English literature, Mr. "Bickerstaff" 
would, naturally, gravitate toward quiz bowl; from there, it seems 
inevitable that he, like so many of us, would develop a Magic 
Toeshoes relationship with Zeke.

Therefore, he's probably devastated right now and we shouldn't mock 
him in his time of need.

Edmund

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, walter_shandy <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "bickerstaffisaac 
> <bickerstaffisaac_at_y...>" <bickerstaffisaac_at_y...> wrote:
> > As the year draws to a close I would like to bid farewell to one 
of 
> > best players in the game, Zeke Berdichevsky. 
> 
> Is this true?  I'm not willing to automatically believe an 
> announcement of someone's retirement by a guy calling himself 
Isaac 
> Bickerstaff.