[sumo] Wiggins retirement reported on Sumo Forum

[Barbara Ann]

I thought you said you looked up the "Japan Forum".  The Sumo Forum said
"retirement home", which is not inaccurate. In the States, a "retirement
home" is not considered an old folks' home. It is an abode that one has for
when one is retired from one's regular work. For instance, some public
service workers such as police and firemen may retire as early as in their
40s. Many companies offer full retirement at age 55, as did my place of
business. These retirees don't go to an "old folks" home, but they might
have saved and purchased homes in, say, Florida, Las Vegas, France, Spain or
any other locations of their choosing. They might also go on working
full-time or irregularly, but they still considered themselves retired, for
all intents and purposes. Both the person who posted the news on the Sumo
Forum and Dave are Americans, so you may just have mistaken the meaning of
"retirement". It certainly is NOT a building where everyone is old" -
whatever the meaning of that is anymore -  and/or in wheelchairs and/or
infirm and/or senile.

BRTK, as opposed to BAKL

-----Original Message-----
From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
Of Doreen Simmons
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:23 PM
To: Sumo Mailing List
Subject: RE: [sumo] Wiggins


>BAKL wrote: But it had been already posted  the Sumo Forum on September 
>4, about a week before the basho began, that he was heading for his 
>retirement home .

I know. The inaccuracy  is one reason why I don't bother much with Sumo
Forum.

> And
>the this past Wednesday, September 27, his "Man about Sports" column 
>was still appearing in the Asahi Shinbun section of the International 
>Herald Tribune.
 
I know that, too. That was the unfinished business he told me about.
Doreen Simmons
<jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp>
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