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Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 1, 2016)

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Proverbially Speaking

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

…Lord John Russell

 

Modern Philosophy

Most men, generically speaking, labor under the illusion that there is a supreme being, just and benevolent. This illusion gives order and meaning to their lives, and gives them the opportunity to experience happiness.  For, after all, who is so unhappy as the man who is disillusioned?

 

Daffy-nition

Holy Macular!: Ophthalmologist’s exclamation.

 

A Lesson in Geometry

There are usually two sides to every argument, but no end.

 

From My Persian Dictionary

Hakím: learned

Maʽrifat: learning

Hikáyat: legend

Límún: lemon

 

A Set-up

Edo: When Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden what did they do?

Bedo: They raised Cain.

 

What’s in a Name?

Ohriker: Turkish in derivation, identified as either an occupation or descriptive term, Oreke may be defined as distaff, the staff for holding the flax, tow or wool in spinning; or midwife’s stool, which also signifies women’s work, authority or domain.

 

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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