Uncle Garabed’s Notebook

No Exceptions
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
… Marcel Pagnol

At a Loss for Words
Boss to secretary: There are two words that I want you to refrain from ever using. One of them is “lousy,” the other is “swell.”
Secretary: That’s O.K. with me. What are the two words?

From the Trivia File
The Burden of Proof (the obligation to prove something) is on the party holding the affirmative [because no one can prove a negative, except by reduction ad absurdum].
… Greenleaf: On Evidence, vol. i, pt. ii, ch. iii.
 
Fly-boy Motto
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots.
However, there are no old bold pilots.

The Teacher
I took a piece of human clay,
And gently formed it day by day,
And molded, with my skill and art
A young child’s soft and yielding heart.
I came again when days were gone—
It was a man I gazed upon.
The form I gave him still he bore,
But I could change him nevermore.

Sensibility
Edo: Does your wife talk to herself when she’s alone?
Bedo: I don’t know. I’ve never been with her when she’s alone.

What’s in a Name?
Bastadjian: One who sells merchandise from a wheeled cart; street vendor.

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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