Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 14, 2012)

American Proverb

Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.

Upon My Word!

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

… Jean Cocteau

In Praise of Ribaldry

The limerick packs laughs anatomical

In space that is quite economical,

But the good ones I’ve seen

So seldom are clean,

And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

Entry in an Autograph Album

Can’t think, brain numb

Inspiration won’t come

Poor ink, bad pen

That’s all, Amen.

Give and Take

Davutoglu: “Turkey ready to share pain with Armenians.”

Arto, posting on Asbarez: “What he means by ‘sharing’ the pain is that the Turks will continue giving it and we continue receiving it.”

Really Quite Simple

Edo: How did you get the black eye?

Bedo: Drinking a cup of coffee.

Edo: How the heck can you get a black eye from drinking a cup of coffee?

Bedo: I forgot to take out the spoon.

What’s in a Name?

Keshgegian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade, keshkek is defined as a dish of wheat boiled with minced meat; therefore, a purveyor of such.

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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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