Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 18, 2012)

Why, Certainly!

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

… W. Somerset Maugham

Greek Proverb

Through our ears others may persuade us not to believe the evidence of our own eyes.

With All Due Respect

Many a derder’s sermon is just so much durr-durr.

Practical Prescription

Last night I had a funny pain

And to the Doc I flew

Said he, “That comes from overwork,

There’s nothing I can do.

You need a month of quiet rest,”

He added with a smile.

“You’d better drop your golf and try

The office for a while.”

The Last Resort

Hatred is the only revenge available to a powerless people.

From the Trivia File

Before one could say Jack Robinson: A saying to express a very short time, originating from a hyperactive gentleman of that name, who would call on his neighbors, and be gone before his name could be announced.

What’s in a Name?

Sakabedoyan: Turkish and Armenian in derivation, identified as a trade, saka is defined as Turkish for water-carrier, and Bedo as diminutive for the Armenian proper name Bedros. Thus, Bedros, the water-carrier. Yan, of course, means son of, or from the family of.

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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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