A Famous piker

In a recent comment on Andrea's blog I said Andrew made me look like a piker.
Someone then asked "What is a piker".

Here is a picture of the greatest piker in world literature, Harpagon, as portrayed by Neil Howard in my long-time-ago production of Moliere's "The Miser."

Two dictionary definitions of a piker are:
1. a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.
2. a stingy, tight-fisted person; a tightwad.

If you've ever seen a performance of "The Miser" or perhaps read it (in the original French, of course) you know that Harpagon is, to say the very least, a piker.

Another lesser-known piker lives in Sandy, Utah. His wife wanted to go out to dinner for Valentine's Day. He took her to Chuck-a-Rama around 5:00 p.m. Big mistake. Joint was jammed. He opted out. Instead, he bought two Subway seafood foot longs and they ate them in the peace and quiet of their condo.

Later that evening this piker tuned into the History Channel and he and his wife watched "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre". How romantic can it get?

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Stay tuned.