Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Aug. 16, 2014)

Delivery Guaranteed

Death has got something to be said for it:
There’s no need to get out of bed for it:
Wherever you may be,
They bring it to you, free.

Kingsley Amis

 

Swedish Proverb

Fortune follows him who flees from it, and flees from him who seeks it.

 

Mock Shakespeare

TB or not TB, that is the congestion. Consumption be done about it? Of cough, but it’ll take a lung time.

 

 From the Trivia File

If you study your Bible you run across a strange passage in Genesis 24:9, where Abraham’s servant swore an oath, by placing his hand, “under the thigh” of his master. “Thigh” was a common euphemism used instead of “penis” because of the fear of mentioning the sacred organ directly. This oath sworn on the testicles, was the Hebrew method of swearing by one’s word, or seed, or lineage that the vow would be carried out. Hence all the words like testament, testify, and testimony are derivatives of this promise, oath or covenant between the two parties. Testament, testimony, testicles, test, testify, the word, and a Man’s Word are all related.

David Jay Jordan

 

Upstaged Mismatching

Edo: My laundry sends back my shirts with different buttons sewed on them.
Bedo: That’s nothing. My laundry sends back my buttons with different shirts sewed on them.

 

What’s in a Name?

Okjian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade, okji is defined as bow-maker, bowman, archer.

CK Garabed

CK Garabed

Weekly Columnist
C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.
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