Holy Cow!
Tennyson had the British Empire for God, and Queen Victoria for Virgin Mary.
… Lady Gregory
Let’s Face It
Everybody feels sorry for the blind man; no one can tolerate the deaf man.
Daffy-nition
American: A man drinking Brazilian coffee from an English cup, while sitting on Danish furniture after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie, who picks up a Japanese ball point pen and writes a letter to his congressman demanding that something be done about spending the country’s diminishing dollar reserves on inferior Chinese merchandise.
Nostalgia
Back in the old days when the Dikranagerdtsi old-timers would sit around playing pinochle, and one side had the other at its mercy, one of the victors would call out to an imaginary person in the background, “Khacho, baltan pir.” In other words, “Khacho, bring the cleaver.” Evidently there was a noted butcher in Dikranagerd named Khachadour.
Off the Deep End
Edo: Do you find Haiganoush to be temperamental?
Bedo: Oh, yes! 95% temper, 5% mental.
What’s in a Name?
The noted cellist Gregor Piatigorsky got his name from a city in Russia.
The name Pyatigorsk is derived from two fused Russian words which mean five mountains and the city is so called because of the five peaks of the Beshtau (which also means five mountains in Turkic) of the Caucasian mountain range overlooking the city.
Gregor, however, was born in Ekaterinburg, so a forebear may have originally hailed from Pyatigorsk.
Appraisal
It has been reported that the great violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian once described Gregor Piatigorsky as the greatest string player of all time.
Source: Armenian Weekly
Link: Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 30, 2016)