Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 19, 2014)

From Will Rogers’ Notebook

I had just enough white man’s blood in me to make my honesty questionable.

Just Musing

When you consider the population of the world, you wonder where the garbage goes.

Revenge

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff,

… Adlai Stevenson

Clever Rejoinder

A man who was criticized for not having a Bible in the house excused himself by saying that there was not a word in the Bible that was not in his dictionary.

For the Erudite

Knowledge sets up a screen that false propaganda cannot penetrate.

Modern Aphorism

An apt pupil makes his teacher look good.

Black Humor

The aviation instructor, having delivered a lecture on parachute work, concluded: “And if it doesn’t open, well, gentlemen, that is what is known as ‘jumping to a conclusion.’”

From the Word Lab

Ghoul: One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome; a grave robber; from Arabic ghul, an evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.

What’s in a Name?

Madoyan: Armenian in derivation, identified as a proper name, Mado is the diminutive for Madteos (Matthew). If Turkish in derivation, Mado may be the diminutive for madenji, which is defined as miner; mine owner, mining expert; metallurgist.

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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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