Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 12, 2014)

On Culinary Art

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

… Alexander Pope

From the Word Lab

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

Complaint

I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. If I had any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn’t have signed up in the first place!

The Force of Logic

Evolutionists make good fire worshippers.

Insufferability 

The vexing question that should beset all Armenians is: “Why are we plagued with so many egomaniacs?”

From My Persian Dictionary

Yavásh: hark! hold!

Turshí: harshness

Surná: hautbois, horn

Ságh: healthy

Not on the Program

Edo: What did you hear at the Opera yesterday?

Anno: All sorts of things. Shavarsh is going bankrupt. Digin Hripsime has dyed hair. The Chatalbashians are getting a divorce.

What’s in a Name?

Ansourian: Derivation undetermined, identified as a locale, Ansour is defined as the former name of a village in the vicinity of Malatia. Thus, the bearer of the name was a native of that village. George Aghjayan believes that the current name of the village is Buzluk.

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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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