ANECDOTES OF THE LATE O. S. ARI“ ...Ari’s voice, full of wit, filled room... ” (Mustafa Dogrusoz in ’Kibris’ -5 February 1999)
" ...He always wore a smile... " (Harid Fedai in 'Halkin Sesi' -27 December 1992)
(In his newspaper columns [mostly between 1968-1992 in Cypriot ‘Halkin Sesi’ -also ‘Birlik’ etc.] often by a little story or joke did hailed teacher-thinker-poet late Orhan Seyfi Ari [1918- 1992] made or highlighted his points ~so also in his lectures, debates, discussions, teaching his school pupils. These simply put anecdotes are hoped briefly and miscellaneously to familiarise with his wit and a few of less involved of very many views he was also popular for…)
DIPLOMATIC COMMUNIQES, he thought, were rather like broadcasting live on radio a match between two boxers called Abdi and Bandinelli, and announcing winner as Abdinelli…
‘NEVER TOO LATE to change one’s mind or to make a start’ was not of more use to one, sometimes, or to a nation, than it would be to driver of a car rolling down a cliff to then decide to drive carefully…
IRRELEVANCY was a natural and common refuge of man ~”You have gone bald!” he joked with a friend who he had not seen for a long time –his friend looked at him, then responded, “Ha..! As if your son’s got more hair than I..!”
THE TROUBLES OF THE WORLD had much to do with this, that some with breathing difficulties had become deep sea divers…