Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (June 11, 2016)

English Proverb

Birds pay equal honors to all men.

Acronym on the Name Iacocca

I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation America

Birthstones

For laundresses, the soapstone

For architects, the cornerstone.

For cooks, the puddingstone.

For soldiers, the bloodstone.

For politicians, the blarneystone.

For borrowers, the touchstone.

For policemen, the pavingstone.

For stock brokers, the curbstone.

For burglars, the keystone.

For tourists, the Yellowstone.

For beauties, the peachstone.

For editors, the grindstone.

For motorists, the milestone.

For pedestrians, the tombstone.

Daffy-nition

Doctors who treat your eyes are called optimists.

Upon Reconsideration

Edo: What’s that you have in your buttonhole?

Bedo: Why, that’s a chrysanthemum.

Edo: It looks like a rose to me.

Edo: No, you’re wrong. It’s chrysanthemum.

Edo: Spell it.

Bedo: K-R-I-S—by golly, that is a rose!

What’s in a Name?

Mikoyan: Armenian in derivation, identified as a proper noun and descriptive term, Miko is the diminutive of Mgrdich, which is defined as Baptist.

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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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