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Miser, The

noun

  1. a comedy (1668) by Molière.


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The Bear Cave was the brainchild of Nancy Miser, the former program manager for Fresno Unified’s special education department, who retired in 2017.

“The miser, the somewhat pompous, somewhat put upon guy -- all the things that he was on that show, he said was a reflection of the population in general. People identified with that and they also knew in spite of his character, he only played being cheap. People knew that he was a nice man under whatever it was he was playing. He came across as being a really nice person.”

Ellsworth Miser, the narrator, has been biding his time in Saigon “hoping this swell little war would stay that way.”

In 1974 he provided the voice for Heat Miser, the character who regulates warm weather, in the animated television movie “The Year Without a Santa Claus.”

The Case of the Cognitive Miser The processing problem comes about because we tend to be cognitive misers.

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