Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 18, 2014)

Self Delusion

The man who thinks he loves a woman for her own sake is very much mistaken.

… La Rochefoucauld

Bad News

Because of current economic conditions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Turkish Proverb

He who eats when he is full digs his grave with his teeth.

Irish Toast

Come in the evening, or come in the morning,

Come when you are looked for, or come without warning,

A thousand welcomes you will find here before you,

And the oftener you come here the more I’ll adore you.

From the Word Lab

Kettledrum: a corruption of kiddle-drum, a drum in the shape of a kiddle or basket employed for catching fish.

Outnumbered

Orson Welles once lectured in a small Midwestern town before a not too well-attended audience. He opened his talk with a brief sketch of his career. “I’m a producer and director of plays. I’m a producer and director of motion pictures. I’m an actor on stage and in motion pictures. I also write, direct, and act on the radio. I’ve published books. I play the violin and piano. I’m a magician and painter.” After a brief pause, he looked over the audience, and said, “Isn’t it a pity that there are so much of me and so few of you!”

What’s in a Name?

Kadifeian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade, kadife is defined as velvet; therefore, a dealer in velvet cloth.

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CK Garabed

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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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