Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (January 12, 2013)

The Artist’s Palate

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

… Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French gourmet

A Little Misapprehension

Boston blueblood (to new maid): Do you know anything of my wife’s whereabouts?

New maid: Yes, sir. I put them in the wash.

Russian proverb

If you drink you die, if you don’t drink you die; so it is better to drink.

Play on Words

Sir John Hill began his career as an apothecary in St. Martin’s Lane, London, became an author, and amongst other things wrote farces. Garrick said of him—

For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is:

His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.

Rude Awakening

See the happy moron,

He doesn’t give a damn,

I wish I were a moron,

My God! Perhaps I am!

Time to Wake Up

Edo: How are you and the missus getting along?

Bedo: Oh, she’s just crazy about me. She says such nice things in her sleep, but she always calls me by the wrong name.

What’s in a Name?

Toufayan: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade name, toufa, is a truncation of toufan, a further truncation of toufank, a variant of tufek, which is defined as a gunsmith or armorer.

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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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