Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Sept. 25, 2010)

Quite a Crowd
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
       …William James
 
Tense and Pretense
She’s a girl with a past, and the only way to figure in her future is with a present.
 
Play on Words
A great lawyer, pleading in a divorce case, was carried away with his ardor. He kept uttering phrases which were somewhat acrimonious. It is necessary to respect the rules of politeness, and lawyers who forget themselves are called to order by the judge. Finally, the lawyer in his ardor went beyond all bounds. He said that his client’s husband was the ugliest man in the world. The judge began to laugh and told him that he was forgetting himself.
 
Humorous Verse
Actual evidence I have none,
But my aunt’s charwoman’s sister’s son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a housemaid in Downing Street
That he had a brother, who had a friend,
Who knew when the war was going to end.

       …Reginald Arkell

Look Before You Leap
Boozji Khosrof: Doctor, I’ve been feeling out of sorts for a month, now.
Dr. Jigerian: Have you been treated by anyone else?
Khosrof: No, but I did go see a pharmacist.
Dr. Jigerian: Pharmacists are frustrated physicians. What kind of idiotic advice did he give you?
Khosrof: He told me to come and see you.
 
What’s in a Name?
Antaramian: Armenian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, antaram is defined as unfading.

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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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