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Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (May 13, 2017)

May 13, 2017 at 9:33 am CK Garabed 0

Spanish Proverb An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Success or Failure? The nineteenth-century naturalist, John Muir, the planet’s first ecoactivist, hiked through thousands of miles of American back country, lobbied feverishly […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (May 5, 2017)

May 5, 2017 at 9:26 am CK Garabed 0

The Memoirs of Roustam: Napoleon’s Mamluk Imperial Bodyguard Edited with annotations & introduction by Ara Ghazarians & translated by Catherine Carpenter The Memoirs of Roustam is a piece unmatched in Napoleonic literature, and with such […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 29, 2017)

April 29, 2017 at 9:24 am CK Garabed 0

Napoleonic Palindrome Able was I ere I saw Elba. A Prescription A husband should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife. …E.W. Howe Scottish Folklore Life is truly froth and […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 22, 2017)

April 22, 2017 at 9:23 am CK Garabed 0

Polish Proverb Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother. Daffy-nition Childish games: those at which your wife beats you. Does Medicare Know? Surgeons know nothing but do everything. […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 15, 2017)

April 15, 2017 at 9:22 am CK Garabed 0

Armenian Proverb An educated person will be an understanding person. From One Writer to Another Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (April 1, 2017)

April 1, 2017 at 9:16 am CK Garabed 0

A Matter of Life and Death Our Birth made us Mortal, our Death will make us Immortal. …Thomas Fuller Folk Limerick A beautiful lady named Psyche Is loved by a fellow named Yche. One thing […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 25, 2017)

March 22, 2017 at 5:56 pm CK Garabed 0

Sicilian Proverb If you don’t know by age twenty, don’t do by age thirty, don’t have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have A Sound Mind in a Rich Body […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 18, 2017)

March 18, 2017 at 5:51 pm CK Garabed 0

Then and Now Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. …William Penn Arcane Philosophy Possessions are immortal; when you’re gone, they’re still around. Lexophilia from the Internet • Venison for dinner […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 11, 2017)

March 11, 2017 at 5:51 pm CK Garabed 0

Native American Proverb Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food. Daffy-nition Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, and scorn in the driver ahead. …Mac McCleary A History […]

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 4, 2017)

February 1, 2017 at 11:08 am CK Garabed 0

WW II Coinage There are no atheists in the foxholes. …Rev. William T. Cummings A Double-entendre Palindrome Semite Times At the Grave of a Land-Shark There was no land, […]