Talk:Miser
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[edit] Plagiarism
The Charles Huffman paragraph was plagiarized from this site: http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Miser/id/1896086 tharsaile 16:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] does not fit
the Collyer brothers were certainly hoarders, but not misers. Their lack of spending was a result of mental health conditions, not frugality. I am removing them from the article. -Bottesini 00:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Addition
Should Shylock (Shakespeare) be included? --maru 00:35, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- According to allshakespeare.com, "Shakespeare based Shylock on the miser, a stock character from medieval* literature. Although the miser was traditionally a comical villain, the playwright made his character more human by giving him sympathetic qualities."
Seems Shylock should be included, and we need something about the medieval comical character, too. --Djadek 00:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Norbert Colon
Changed the reference to him being an American character - he isn't, he's from the British comic, Viz, as stated in the article to which his name is linked.
[edit] Leroy Lockhorn
Leroy Lockhorn is listed at the bottom of this article. Obviously, he was added in order to bring the article into compliance with this comic: life imitating fiction, a la the Weird Al article after The Onion did a story on it. I suppose that's OK, but it's weird in an existential way. Fishal 00:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- Hah. That's fascinating. I did look up The Lockhorns when Leroy was added to this article. --健次(derumi)talk 02:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Uncharitable?
Doesn't miserhood also have a traditional connotation of not being charitable, explaining the "mean" in the Merriam-Webster definition (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/miser)? Superm401 - Talk 08:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
