Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 15, 2011)

Double Dare

If a man isn’t willing to take some risks for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
… Ezra Pound

Nothing is Insignificant

For want of a nail a shoe was lost. For want of a shoe a horse was lost. For want of a horse a rider was lost. For want of a rider a message was lost. For want of a message a battle was lost. For want of a battle a cause was lost.

The Exigency of Fashion

Brunetta was the rival beauty of Phyllis. On one occasion Phyllis procured a most marvelous fabric of gold brocade in order to eclipse her rival; but Brunetta arrayed her train-bearer in a dress of the same material, and cut in the same fashion. Phyllis was so annoyed that she went home and died.

… The Spectator

Riddle Without an Answer

If the ocean tides respond to the gravitational attraction of the earth and the moon, and the earth’s rotation causes one complete pass of the moon, why are there two high tides a day?

Inscription on a Gravestone

Yesterday I was as you.
Tomorrow you shall be as me.

Foolproof System

Edo: How do you keep relatives from invading your summer home?
Bedo: Very simple. I borrow money from the rich ones, and lend it to the poor ones. None ever come back.

What’s in a Name?

Hreshdagian; Armenian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, hreshdag is defined as angel.

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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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