Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 5, 2016)
Armenian Proverb
When the donkey wishes to spite its master, it dies.
From the Greek Anthology
Asclepiades, the miser, in his house
Espied one day, to his surprise, a mouse.
“Tell me, dear mouse,” he cried, “to what cause is it
I owe this pleasant but unlooked-for visit?”
The mouse said, smiling, “Fear not for your hoard;
I come, my friend, to lodge, and not to board.”
Daffy-nition
Passion: A feeling you get when you feel a feeling you’ve never felt before.
Arabian Riddle
The loftiest cedars I can eat,
Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I;
I storm whene’er you give me meat,
Whene’er you give me drink, I die.
Answer: Fire
Corny Pun Corner
St. Peter: How did you get here?
Latest Arrival: Flu!
What’s in a Name?
Dingilian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade, dingil is defined as an axle or tongue of a horse-drawn carriage, and thus a maker/repairer of such.
