Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 20, 2010)

Misplaced Virtue
Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands.
… Jean Giraudoux

From the Internet
A Smile for You
Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized I’d passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile then I realized its worth;
A single smile just like mine could travel ‘round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected.
Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected.

From My Persian Dictionary
Lúbiyah: bean.
Hammál: bearer, porter, carrier.
Zang: bell.
Habb: berry.

A Rage to Live
One day Edo was expounding to Bedo his views on the subject of illness. “I go to see the doctor, for after all, physicians have to live. He writes me out a prescription, which I take to the druggist. I pay him willingly, for after all, pharmacists also must live. Then I go home and pour the medicine down the drain, for after all, I, too, have to live.”

A Neat Trick
A newspaper editorial about a local politician concluded with the following question:
“Most people know the position assumed by the present incumbent; but where will he stand when he takes his seat?”

What’s in a Name?
Atanasian: Greek in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, athanasius is defined as immortal.

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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.