Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 26, 2014)

Hill-Billy Talk

I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are

the president.

… Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

Indian Proverb (Tamil)

The comfort of the bed is not experienced by the mattress.

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Rules for Scalping

The Cheyennes, in scalping, remove from the part just over the left ear, a piece of skin not larger than a silver dollar. The Arapahoes take a similar piece from the region of the right ear. Others take the entire skin from the crown of the head, the forehead, or the nape of the neck. The Utes take the entire scalp from ear to ear, and from the forehead to the nape of the neck.

A Toast

May you sleep like a log but not like a sawmill.

A Tip

It has been suggested that the Washington Redskins be renamed the Washington Foreskins because the moral integrity of the team owners is just as useless.

Seen in a Different Light

Young Hrach was desirous of marrying Meline, and she was inclined to favor him, but she told him that her mother, who was a tough old bird, had reservations on his suitability. “What’s her reasons for opposing our marriage?” asked Hrach. Meline replied, “She thinks you’re effeminate.” Rejoined Hrach, “Compared to her, I guess I am.”

What’s in a Name?

Baghdasarian: Assyrian in derivation, identified as a proper noun, Balthasar is defined as Protector of the King (Bibl.); Lord of Treasures. Name of one of the three Magi.

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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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