Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (May 7, 2016)

Armenian Proverb

Better to be a wise man’s slave than a fool’s friend.

Thoughts for St. Stephen

Instead of the Puritans landing on Plymouth Rock

(Said Jo Davidson, the delightful sculptor)

How much pleasanter this country would have been

If Plymouth Rock

Had landed on the Puritans.

…Christopher Morley

Cute Palindrome

Ma is as selfless as I am.

From the Trivia File

Vienna, a musical city, is where you can dial a certain number from your telephone and get the pitch A 440 to tune your particular instrument.

Unencumbered

The young wise guys hanging out in front of the local ice cream parlor regularly poked fun at the elderly doctor as he rode by in his battered jalopy.

One day the good doctor stopped to address the boys, “Yes, my friends, this car has seen better days, but it’s also fully paid for. If you check with your parents, you’ll find that most of you ain’t.”

Gone Overboard

King Charles II possessed the reputation of being skilled in naval architecture. Being once at Chatham, to view a ship which had just been completed, he asked the famous Killigrew “if he did not think he should make an excellent shipwright?” Killigrew replied that “he always thought His Majesty would have done better at any trade than his own,”

What’s in a Name?

Meshejian: Turkish in derivation, identified as an occupation, meshe is defined as oak or oaken; therefore, a mesheji is one who supplies oak for firewood.

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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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