Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 3, 2015)

Proverbial Wisdom

Where the Bee sucks Honey, the Spider sucks Poison.

 

… Thomas Fuller

 

From the Word lab

Etymologists believe that barbecue derives from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida.

 

A Phenomenon

Whose coordination can compare with that of a centipede?

 

Daffy-nition

Neurotic: A person who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past, instead of worrying about something that won’t happen in the future, like normal people.

 

A Potent Observation

 

The Impossible Dream: a universe without ego.

From the Trivia File

 

When the fish see the osprey, the legend says, they are so fascinated that they “swoon,” and, turning on their backs, yield themselves an easy prey to the bird. Rattlesnakes exercise the same fascination over birds.

 

Ancient Music

Ten Knights in a Bar Room was sung by the followers of King Arthur.

 

Aghavni’s Observation

Monte Carlo Casino is a den of inequity.

 

What’s in a Name?

Khoudaverdian: Persian and Turkish in derivation, khouda or huda is defined as God, and verdi as give or given, thus God- given. The Armenian equivalent is Asdvadzadour.

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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