Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Sept. 20, 2014)

Words to Live By

He who dies rich dies disgraced.

… Andrew Carnegie

Pedigree

Alexander Pope gave a dog to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and had two lines engraved on the collar:

I am his Highness’ dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

French Proverb

He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.

A Toast to Libation

Now here’s to Addition—

Another pint, pray!

Then here’s to Subtraction—

Take the old one away!

Here’s Multiplication—

So double the wine!

And here’s to Division—

That’s yours, and this mine!

… Wallace Rice

A Matter of Perspective

Edo: Isn’t it annoying the way women always remember wedding anniversaries?

Bedo: Yes, and husbands always forget them. How do you account for that?

Edo: Easily. Do you remember when you caught your biggest fish?

Bedo: Do I!

Edo: Well now, do you think the fish remembers?

What’s in a Name?

Tozkoparanian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, Tozkoparan describes someone who kicks up a dust, that is, creates a disturbance.

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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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