Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (June 6, 2015)

Twice Golden

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something.

… Wilson Mizner

 

Popular Wisdom

A good education enables you to earn more than a good educator.

 

A Handy Saying

Hands are said to be of five classes:

  1. Idealistic – delicate, with long and pointed fingers.
  2. Realistic – with short, square fingers.
  3. Energetic – with spatulated fingers.
  4. Philosophic – with rough fingers, knotted at the points.
  5. Mixed – with the characteristics mixed.

 

Automation

Within her automatic home

The housewife lolls and lingers;

No longer plagued by dishpan hands;

Instead push-button fingers.

 

From My Persian Dictionary

 

´Aks: inversion

Daʽvat: invitation

Uttú: iron (clothes)

Parisháni: irregularity

 

Epitaph

On Meredith, an organist at St. Mary Winton College, Oxford:

Here lies one blown out of breath

Who lived a merry life, and died a

Merideth.

 

What’s in a Name?

Giureghian: Greek in derivation, identified as a proper name, Giuregh is the Armenian form of the name Cyril, which is defined as lordly, masterful.

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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