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Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 8, 2016)

Arabian Proverb

Never give advice in a crowd.

 

Ghost of a Chance

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

…Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

 

Daffy-nition
Kiss: A noun, though often used as a conjunction; it is never declined—it is more common than proper and is used in the plural and agrees with all genders.

 

A Modern Aphorism

People think, and people feel; but what they think doesn’t always agree with what they feel.

 

America or Armenia?

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

…Joseph Addison

 

Auditory Slip

 

Edo: Did you say your son’s girlfriend was a belly dancer?

Bedo: No, I said ballet dancer.

 

What’s in a Name?

Isadjanian: Arabic and Persian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, Isa is defined as Jesus, and djan as soul or dear; therefore, dear Jesus or soul of Jesus.

CK Garabed

CK Garabed

Weekly Columnist
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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