Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 2, 2013)

On Punctuality

People who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

… E.V. Lucas

 

Italian Proverb

After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.

 

Legendary Horses

Egyptian horses were famous and Solomon imported them and resold them to Hittite and Armenian kings.

 

Modern Aphorism

When you are young you are told you are good-looking.

When you are old you are told you are looking good.

 

A Clever Twist

Hortense Symington, a Protestant, said to her neighbor, Maggie O’Rourke, a Roman Catholic, “I heard Norman Vincent Peale last night, and he was simply thrilling to listen to, almost like the Apostle Paul.” Maggie replied, “While I find Paul appealing, I find Peale appalling.”

 

The Inside Story

Colin de Plancy says that Charles Martel of France was not called “Martel” because he martelé (“hammered”) the Saracens under Abd-el-Rahman in 732, but because his patron saint was Martellus (or St. Martin).

 

Small talk

Edo: Why do they call our language the mother tongue?

Bedo: Because the father so seldom gets a chance to use it.

 

What’s in a Name?

Ozanian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a calling, ozan is defined as troubadour, bard, poet, minstrel.

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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