Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 2, 2016)

Unusual Adage

Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity.

… Thomas Fuller

Sportsmanship

He lost the game;

No matter for that—

He kept his temper,

He swung his hat

And cheered the winners—

A better way,

Than to lose his temper

And win the day.

Beware!

Gossip is the most deadly microbe

It has neither legs nor wings,

It is composed mostly of tales

And most of them have stings.

… E.E. Opdyke

A Ribald Palindrome

Eros? Sidney, my end is sore.

On Lying

Edo: Don’t you think that Wordsworth was right when he said: Heaven lies about us in our infancy?

Bedo: Sure, but he forgot to add that everybody lies about us in our maturity.

What’s in a Name?

Srmakeshkhanlian: Turkish in derivation, identified as an occupation, srma is defined as gold or silver thread, srmakesh as the worker who draws the thread, srmakeshkhan as the factory where such work is done, and srmakeshkhanli as the owner of the factory.

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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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