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The Wizard has been trying to predict the BDFL for 16 years

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The young attentive Wizard apprentice (#53) in 1982 at GHS where he began to hone his craft.

The Wizard has been granted a sabbatical by the BDFL

TITLETOWN - "Sabbatical" is from the Latin sabbaticus, from the Greek sabbatikos and from the Hebrew shabbat, i.e., Sabbath, literally meaning a ceasing, or a rest from work, or a break often lasting from two months to a year. The BDFL media experts first reported it as a retirement, but now stand corrected by the league's hierarchy. There has been widespread speculation as to the Wizard's disappearance from the prognosticating scene, but it has been narrowed to a few hypothetical scenarios. First, he's upset about losing the 2012 Prognosticator of the Year (POTY) to his arch-nemesis the Evil Las Vegas Oddsmakers (ELVO) and this is protest. Secondly, his old lady is wearing the pants in the family and calling the shots these days and he's finally falling in line with the New World Order. Another not-so-unrealistic theory has the Wizard on the run from the Feds in the Tampa/St. Pete/Pasco County metro area as part of the 12 year U.S. federal investigation into the HealthSouth accounting fraud case. And lastly, there is opinion out there that the Wizard has been hired by the Obama Administration to soft peddle the new government supported health plan (Obamacare) to senior citizens throughout Florida. Whatever the case, we miss him and hope one day he will return as a contributor to TheBDFL.com.

Lending creedance he is still alive, this gem popped up on the wire services a few weeks back

PARTS UNKNOWN - For those of you keeping score at home, the Spanish Armada was a late 16th century attempt by the Hapsburg dynasty in Catholic Spain to invade Elizabethan England and return the heretical Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Despite enormous, and warranted, fear by the English of an imminent invasion, storms scattering the fleet and the generally difficult task of executing a seaborne invasion prevented it from ever occurring. The next closest thing to a Spanish Armada came when the French conquered Spain in the early 19th century, procured its navy, and met the English in battle at Trafalgar where the “Spanish Armada” was annihilated. Enough so that the English built Trafalgar Square in London with a statue of the man that led the British fleet, Admiral Lord Frances Horatio Nelson (not to be confused with Isaiah Lord Thomas), who unfortunately was one of the few English casualties in the battle. In short, if Jaimie were sailing through the BDFL like the Spanish Armada, he would be ultimately doomed in his quest. That is all…