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Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Dec. 3, 2016)

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From Lectures on the English Poets

Fame is not popularity. It is the spirit of a man surviving himself in the minds and thoughts of other men.

…William Hazlitt

The Virtue of Anonymity

The first aid specialist, instructing a class of Girl Scouts, asked: “Why does a surgeon wear a mask while performing an operation?” One little girl replied: “So that if he makes a mess of it, the patient won’t know who did it.”

 

Heretofore and Hereafter

How can you tell where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?

So, There!

On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise and have it shut in their faces.

…The Koran

 

True to His Word

Kachal Sarkis: But, doctor, are you sure of your findings? I’ve heard of cases where a wrong diagnosis was made, and the patient was treated for pneumonia but later died of tuberculosis.

Dr. Atchkepatz: Nonsense. When I treat a patient for pneumonia, he dies of pneumonia.

 

From My Persian Dictionary

Dars: lesson

Námah: letter (epistle)

´Azádí: liberty

Lísídan: to lick

 

What’s in a Name?

Sahelian/Sahilian: Arabic in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, the name is defined as a sallow-faced man.

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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