Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Jan. 10, 2015)

Masquerade

“In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought: in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.”

…La Rochefoucauld

Yorkshire Proverb

Like the saddler of Bawtry, who was hanged for leaving his liquor.

It was customary for criminals on their way to execution to stop at a certain tavern in York for a “parting draught.” The saddler of Bawtry refused to accept the liquor and was hanged. If he had stopped a few minutes at the tavern, his reprieve, which was on the road, would have arrived in time to save his life.

Daffy-nition

Lecture: An occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

You Know Who Wears the Pants

Judge: You admit to having broken into the same dress shop four times. What did you steal?

Thief: A dress for my wife, but she made me change it three times.

A Toast

Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers,

Drink to their fathers and drink to their brothers;

Toast their dear healths as long as you’re able,

And dream of their charms while under the table.

On Managed Journalism

God bless the free Armenian press, our lifeline to truth.

What’s in a Name?

Kanchelian: Conjectured to be a native of a location named Kanche, which according to George Aghjayan was mentioned by Alishan and Eprikian as a town or fortress in Cilicia at the time of the Cilician kingdom.

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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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