Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (May 2, 2015)

Masquerade

We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves.

…La Rochefoucauld

A Culinary Secret

Accidents will happen. That’s why there are so many different kinds of salad.

Armenian Proverb

If a brother were really good for anything, God would have had one.

The Fakenham Ghost

An old woman, walking to Fakenham, had to cross the churchyard after nightfall. She heard a short, quick step behind, and looking round saw what she fancied to be a four-footed monster. On she ran, faster and faster, and on came the pattering footfalls behind. She gained the churchyard gate and pushed it open, but ah! “The monster” also passed through. Every moment she expected it would leap upon her back. She reached her cottage door and fainted. Out came her husband with a lantern, saw the “sprite,” which was no other than the foal of a donkey that had strayed into the park and followed the ancient dame to her cottage door.

Uprightness

Edo: My chiropractor is an expert editor.

Bedo: How do you figure that?

Edo: After every visit I stand corrected.

What’s in a Name?

Jebedelikian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, jeb is defined as pocket, and delik as hole or opening; thus jebi delik means penniless.

The TARC Credo

We should be grateful for the Armenian genocide. Without it, each of us individually would not have been born.

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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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