Uncle Garabed's Notebook (Dec. 19, 2009)

How About Infamy?
Fame is the beginning of the fall of greatness.
… V.V. Rozinov

A Clean Limerick
There was a young lady named Ruth,
Who had a great passion for truth.
She said she would die
Before she would lie,
And she died in the prime of her youth.

An Idea with Merit
The boss got his employees together to give them a pep talk. “Now, everybody, whenever I walk into the shop I’d like to see each one of you cheerfully performing his task. If you have any good ideas to add, just put them into the suggestion box.” The next day the boss found the following in the box when he opened it: DON’T WEAR RUBBER HEELS.”

News Item
A Thanksgiving dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ______, after the wedding of their daughter. (Poughkeepsie paper.)

From My Persian Dictionary
Haiwán: domestic animal, beast.
Múrchah: ant.
Hích: any, nothing.
Ishtihá: appetite.

Great Caesar’s Ghost!
Edo: Name two ancient sports.
Bedo: Antony and Cleopatra.

What’s in a Name?
Norashkharian: Armenian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, norashkhar is defined as new world.

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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.