The Servant Who Knows His Master

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1. Love this
   It’s been so long we haven’t heard stories like this! We really miss them.

   It reminds me of Esope’s fables (Yezovpos in Armenian) and the story of cooked tongue as the best and worst meal…

2. Aesop and/or the Khodja

   "Once when Xanthus’ wife left him after a quarrel,  Aesop won her back with his wit.  Upon her return, Xanthus gave a feast for the leading philosophers of Greece and entrusted Aesop to make the preparations.  When the guest sat down to eat, they found that each dish was a tongue of some sort.  

   Angrily, Xanthus demanded an explanation.  Aesop innocently replied, ‘You ordered me to make the best provision that I could think of for the entertainment of these excellent persons.  As the tongue is the key that leads to all knowledge, what could be more suitable than a feast of tongues for philosophers?’  

   Xanthus, pleased with laughter of his guests,  invited them to dine with him the next day.  And he asked Aesop, since he was set on contradictions,  to prepare the feast of the worst.  ‘We shall see what that shall be.’  Again all the guests were served dishes of tongues.  Aesop explained to the angry Xanthus that, ‘Was it not an evil tongue that caused a break with your family? Was it not a soft tongue healed the breach? The tongue is at once the best and the worst entertainment.’"

   — From "Aesop: Ancient Fabler and Storyteller"

   http://www.duboislc.net/read/Aesop/Aesop.html

    

3. Thrown out of the window

   If the author is trying to say that President Sargsian will take anything that Turkey has to dish out – that is, that the foreign policy of President Sargsian toward Turkey is weak and deferential, then I could not agree more with her.  

   The Armenian Foreign Ministry is outclassed by Turkey too.  Imagine any Armenian leader agreeing to establish a historical commission with Turkey to determine whether the genocide occurred.  Sargsian just threw decades of hard work by the Armenian people out the window.  This is what we get with rigged elections.  Not that I can think of any better candidate.  When will Armenia get a leader worthy of its people?

4. A limerick for a traitor
   There once was a gremlin named Serge

   Who thought Turkey and Armenia should merge

   But he underestimated the people

   Who impaled him on a steeple

   Now, 6 feet under, nobody sings him a dirge.

    

5. Nobel Peace Prize for Gul & Sargsyan?

   The denialist website, "History of Truth," speaks of suggesting the nomination of these tyrants to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Amen kulkhou maz michev hima chenk petdadz?

   How much more do we need to hear before we organize worldwide protests?

6. The age of fables

   Why has the age of fables been overlooked? Fables are classic stories that highlight important and weighty topics such as political aspirations, moral dilemmas, and ethical quagmires in an easily digestible and spreadable format – they are the original forms of viral marketing.

   – Mr. Murs, HPU

7. I could not agree with Lucine

   I could not agree with Lucine Kasbarian more, as Serzh and Nalbandian are both ready to sell our interests, be it our liberated lands in Artsakh,be it western Armenia, be it our mother language for foreign schools, this President and his team are a bunch of corrupt crooks ready to serve their foreign masters, or else their dirty dossier will be leaked to the world by his masters. They smell from their head.

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