Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 5, 2014)

Hungarian Proverb

Good coffee should be black as the devil, hot as hell, and sweet as a kiss.

Committee Work

Individuals can create music, literature, and paintings, but it takes a whole nation to come up with a language.

From the Trivia File

It has been alleged that as a young man in London in 1914, Ho Chi Minh worked for Escoffier as a trainee pastry chef.

Why Study?

The more we study, the more we know.

The more we know, the more we forget.

The more we forget, the less we know.

The less we know, the less we forget.

The less we forget the more we know.

So why study?

Quirky Limerick

Two starry-eyed reckless young beaux

Were held up and robbed of their cleaux.

While the weather is hot

They won’t miss them a lot—

But what will they do when it sneaux?

Tribute to Khoren Apkarian (1930-2014)

Considering the type of person he was, and the kind of life he led, it was not his style to expire in bed from illness or old age. Rather, it is fitting that he made his exit in an unusual and memorable way.

What’s in a Name?

 Kabasakalian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, kabasakal is defined as possessing a coarse beard.

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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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