Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Aug. 4, 2012)

Bohemian Proverb

As long as the language lives, the nation is not dead.

White Collar Crime

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

… Benjamin Franklin

Entry in an Autograph Album

You can always tell the English,

You can always tell the Dutch,

You can always tell the Yankees—

But you cannot tell them much!

On Credibility

An “unimpeachable source” is the one who started the rumor.

From the Corn Crib

Watson: By Jove, Holmes! How did you deduce that our food had been poisoned?

Holmes: Alimentary, Watson.

From the Word Lab

Stentorian: Stentor was a Greek herald in the Trojan War. According to Homer’s Iliad, his voice was as loud as that of 50 men combined; hence stentorian, loud-voiced.

Hoity-Toity vs. Hoi Polloi

Who’d care to be a bee and sip

Sweet nectar from the flower’s lip

When he might be a fly and steer

Head first into a can of beer?

What’s in a Name?

Yeremian: Hebrew in derivation, identified as a proper noun, Yerem is the diminutive of Yeremia (Jeremiah), defined as God will raise up.

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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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