Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (June 14, 2014)

Fond Farewell

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.

Well Bred

There was a Turk who was so polite he even salaamed the door.

The Great Mystery

The philosophical question that no one’s ever been able to answer is that of identity. In other words, “Why am I me?”

From the Word Lab

 Apparent: that which appears to be so.

Evident: that which the evidence suggests is so.

Obvious: that which cannot be overlooked.

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LOVE DOLLS • DILDOS • FALSIES • SPANISH FLY

CONTE GIUSEPPE DI COPPOLA

MAFIA LIAISON

ARSON SPECIALIST

REVOLUTIONS STARTED • ASSISTED SUICIDES

REBELLIONS QUELLED • TIGERS TAMED

ASSASSINATIONS PLOTTED • CATS SPAYED

MINES DEFUSED • ORGIES ORGANIZED

TELEPHONES TAPPED • BROTHELS UNIONIZED

COMPUTERS HACKED • CONDOMS TESTED

Left Them Speechless

Edo: Well, did the attendees at the banquet like your after-dinner speech?

Bedo: I’ll say! When I sat down they said it was the best thing I’d ever done.

What’s in a Name?

Kejejian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a trade, kejeji is defined as a purveyor of bitter pungent herbs.

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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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