Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Sept. 18, 2010)

Eternal Problem

To make a speech immortal you don’t have to make it everlasting.
…Lord Leslie Hore-Belisha

From the Word Lab

Rhythms is the longest English word without a vowel (a, e, i, o, u).

Fitting Words

Epitaph on the tomb of a man who had had a fine memory but very poor judgment: “Here rests Jean Nicolas D_____ P_____, of happy memory, waiting for judgment.”

Arabian Proverb

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

An Advisory

Who takes no one’s advice is silly; who takes everyone’s advice is ignorant.

Oops!

A high school boy took out of the library a book whose cover read How to Hug, only to discover it was volume 7 of the Encyclopedia.

Playing It Safe

Edo: I understand you’ve been robbed several times this year.
Bedo: It’s true. I’m reluctant to go out anymore.
Edo: Why don’t you carry a gun?
Bedo: I’m afraid they’ll steal it from me.

What’s In a Name?

Kaltakjian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a skill or trade, kaltak is defined as a saddle-tree or frame for constructing saddles; and a kaltakji is one who makes or sells them.

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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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