Christmas a humbug? You're not the only Scrooge 3-min read. Jim Beckerman. ... "It's run by a big eastern syndicate, you know," says Lucy in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." And who's to say she's wrong?

In Charles Dickens’s 1843 story “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge exclaims “Bah! Humbug ... “A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!” he says.

When Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” in 1843, movies and TV were still far off in the distance. So there’s no way he could have ever imagined that his tightfisted anti-hero ...

Just say 'Bah, humbug' to pricey group gift for boss. By Judith Martin. December 8, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Dear Miss Manners: ...

The staff who said, 'Bah humbug' By Jim Hill on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:00 am ... I'm sure -- would be happy to have these days. Only I can't get anyone to help me," says Winnie.