Giving gifts at work can turn even the jolliest of folks into Scrooges.
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Only 4% were such Scrooges that they planned no rejoicing at all in December.
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These adorable royal-themed tree decorations will get any Scrooges in the Christmas spirit.
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Regardless, you can tell holiday cheer to fuck off because our Scrooges are going rogue.
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Even the most bitter of Scrooges can't resist the allure of these gorgeous holiday light installations.
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So I've zeroed in on the 15 most notable Scrooges, then ranked them from worst to best.
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With all of that out of the way, here are 15 of the most famous Scrooges, ranked.
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Cessna's cynical and borderline nihilistic cards are a perfect inspiration for the Scrooges and holiday-haters among us.
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That is incentive for even the biggest Scrooges to move everyone from their naughty list to their nice list.
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As an early Christmas present to Scrooges everywhere, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality rules in early December.
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In fact, many conservative politicians only pretend to be Scrooges, when they're actually much worse — not mere misers, but actively cruel.
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His Christmas column, "Scrooges of the World, Begone!" was meant to evoke warm feelings about all the progress the world has made.
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Non-dairy milk drinkers are often considered the Scrooges of the beverage world, selfish with their demands and isolated in their idiosyncrasies.
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This may sound too good to be true, but rest assured this is not a ploy by some lazy Scrooges in academia.
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It's common, especially around this time of year, to describe conservative politicians who cut off aid to the poor as Scrooges; I've done it myself.
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I tried to keep to the most famous of Scrooges and characters actually playing Scrooge, not a Scrooge-like character — with a couple of notable exceptions.
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One of the problems with latter-day Scrooges is that there are so many interpretations of the character that there's almost no new ground to tread.
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The hamlet that grew up around the Farewell Bend Ranch was named Farewell Bend, until it was shortened by scrooges at the post office to Bend.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, and, if you're like me, a time to bathe in the cascade of Christmas songs, Grinches and Scrooges be damned.
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It's unique among holidays in that its value always requires protection from imaginary naysayers, defense against a gang of bogeymen, against Scrooges, Grinches, and liberals waging war on Christmas.
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" The phrase, uttered by more than a century of Christmas scrooges across page and screen, has been popularized by almost endless adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol.
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Nobody ever wants to try the chestnut and chevre appies you bring to Christmas parties and you laugh it off and call them all Scrooges but deep down it hurts.
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Ugly holiday sweaters are always a hit (don't listen to those Scrooges saying it's played out) and chances are you've got at least one ugly sweater party to go to.
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Murray is a lot of fun in this film, but of all the Scrooges on this list, he seems the most likely to revert back to "Bah, humbug" by the time January 1 rolls around.
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A young generation of climate Scrooges will be on the warpath this Christmas, ticking everyone off for the air miles travelled, Santa's carbon footprint, gorging on meat and the sacrilege of lighting a log fire.
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So call us scrooges, call us what you will: here are the Christmas no-no's that should be erased from the playlist or at the least reconsidered over some eggnog before being unleashed unto the masses, coating Yuletide with it's true colours of dismal and blue depression.
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Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post declared, "That Darn Cat is a dandy Christmas present for everyone except the Scrooges. Children will enjoy its pranks, adults its whimsy, cat-lovers its Siamese and even J. Edgar Hoover won't mind this use of the FBI."Coe, Richard L. (December 25, 1965). "Disney's 'Cat' Fuel for Yule".
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John Elwes, also called John the Miser; one of the models for Scrooge The central character of A Christmas Carol is Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly London-based businessman, described in the story as "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" Kelly writes that Scrooge may have been influenced by Dickens's conflicting feelings for his father, whom he both loved and demonised. This psychological conflict may be responsible for the two radically different Scrooges in the tale—one a cold, stingy and greedy semi-recluse, the other a benevolent, sociable man. The professor of English literature Robert Douglas- Fairhurst considers that in the opening part of the book covering young Scrooge's lonely and unhappy childhood, and his aspiration for money to avoid poverty "is something of a self-parody of Dickens's fears about himself"; the post-transformation parts of the book are how Dickens optimistically sees himself.
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Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de Quevedo wrote towards 1604 his first work of prose fiction : the picaresque novel titled The Life Story of the Sharper called Don Pablos, example of wanderers and mirror of scrooges. Quevedo also wrote satirical, political and moral prose works where a stoic morality predominates, where subjects like the criticism of archetypes of the society of the Baroque, the constant presence of death in the life of man, and Christian fervor whereupon the politics has to conduct itself. The first of his Dreams dates from 1605: The Dream of the Judgment narrates the resurrection of the dead, who must answer for the manner of their life. It is a social satire against professions or trades: jurists, doctors, butchers... In 1619 he wrote the Politics of God, government of Christ and tyranny of Satan, a political treatise which expounds a doctrine of good government, or 'mirror of princes', for a righteous king, who should have Jesus Christ for model of conduct.
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