Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 18, 2015)

Armenian Proverb

Would that I have many friends; would that I have thousands of debts.

Headline in College newspaper

“Deans Promise to Stop Drinking on Campus.”

Imperium

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

… Victoria, Queen of England

T-shirt Message

When you’re out to make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.

From the Trivia File

In 1970, archaeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb found the skeleton of a grave robber with his hand trapped in the coffin lid.

Candid Comment

Edo: I received a strange birthday greeting card from an anonymous admirer, but I can’t make it out.

Bedo: What is it?

Edo: Added to the printed greeting were the words, “What would a cloud be without U?

Bedo: You must be pretty dense.

Judge a Book by its Cover

Vamp, a bookseller and publisher, whose opinion of books was that the get-up and binding were of more value than the matter. “Books were like women; to strike, they must be well dressed. Fine feathers make fine birds. A good paper, an elegant type, a handsome motto, and a catching title, have driven many a dull treatise through three editions.”

What’s in a Name?

Zerdelian/Zerdalian: Persian in derivation, identified as a fruit, Persian zard-alu, Turkish zerdali is defined as wild apricot.

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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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