Talk:Charles Emerson Winchester III

Careful There
"Tall, stocky, and losing his hair, Charles was born..."

If you can see the problem with this line, have a good laugh (that's why I stuck it here before editing it). If you can't see a problem with this phrasing, go study English grammar (plenty of resources available). Kilyle 23:24, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Someone needs a dictionary as well. "With the exception of Potter, Winchester was often non-plussed by the authority of superior officers." Definition of nonplussed, from Merriam-Webster's: "To be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do." Synonym: Puzzled.

Major Burns into Major Winchester?

 * On one epsiode of MASH Hawkeye remarks that there is only a hairsbreath difference between Major Burns & Major Winchester. If this had really been keep up by the head writers HAwkeye & BJ would have made always made sure in every epsiode that Winchester the butt of their jokes-exchanging a "head twerp" for a "pompus ass"-and not writing episodes which show Winchester at times be a caring person. ALso one episode has Winchester with a bad back-which should have disqualifed him for military service.


 * A bad back wouldn't necessarily have disqualified him. It would have depended on the severity of the back trouble.  Also, he might not have developed the problem until after he was drafted.  Speaking of which, can someone explain to me how Charles and that Lieutenant that went crazy would have been subject to the draft in World War II?  The Lieutenant graduated Yale in 1948 - after WW II was over.  And Charles graduated Harvard in 1943, but he wouldn't have been drafted right out of medical school; he would have completed his three-year surgical residency first.  If Charles was, say, 26 when he graduated, he would have been 33 when the Korean War started.  The maximum draft age was 35, wasn't it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.152.218 (talk) 03:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Fictional Mass General?
The article discusses Winchester's previous work at "(the fictional) Massachusetts General Hospital." Actually, Mass General is a real hospital located in Boston. Winchester worked at the fictional Boston General Hospital. User:AlanM 16:30:59, 06 December 2006

Dreadful grammar
Jesus, there's a ton of grammar errors in the article since I last saw it. JAF1970 14:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, fixed all of the errors. Just a hodgepodge of bad spelling, awful grammar and general sloppiness. JAF1970 16:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Purple Robe
I removed the trivia that seemed to indicate that the writers were in error about Hawkeye's robe's color ("I leave to you my purple bathrobe"). Anyone who's seen people in the costume of Roman senators (for instance in the HBO series Rome) has seen them wearing Tyrian Purple stripes on their tunics and togas. And the purple, due to the specific color of the murex, comes out as an almost reddish-burgundy-crimson hue with enough violet to be noticable. The costumer may have bought a similar color robe for the production. But due to the process of TV production, the subtle violet in the purple might have been washed out (a similar thing happened on Star Trek with Kirk's velour shirts that were actually a lime-green, but showed up gold due to light refraction). Pat Payne 22:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Chauvinism
I removed the reference to Winchester's insulting Potter's Native American ethnicity; Burns was the one to complain that Pierce "always gets the cowboys and I'm stuck with the Indians," to which Potter acidly replied, "I'm one-fourth Cherokee." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.152.218 (talk) 03:03, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Move Page
Would somebody move this page to Charles Emerson Winchester III? All the other MASH TV characters don't have their 'military rank' in their titles. GoodDay (talk) 19:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

A Couple Things
I'm removing the reference to Charles' health inspection of a front-line unit in which he's said to be "unwilling to concede the realities of life at the front." He was adamant that the unit didn't pass muster on ANY standards of cleanliness, telling Pierce "Even a man of your personal habits would have been appalled." There's no basis to say the conditions he encountered were "the realities of life at the front."

Also, I'm removing the bit about his confrontation with the communist-hunting Williamson because the context is completely wrong and needs to be written from scratch, which I don't feel like doing. Williamson never implied Charles was a fellow traveler. Also, the New-Dealer comment was simply Charles prefacing his defense of Margaret with an affirmation of his conservative roots.