Who's your favorite fable?

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i say jack who sold his cows for the beanstalk.

then maybe the big bad wolf.
 

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Are we talking traditional fables, or Bill Willingham's Fables?

Traditional: the scorpion

Fables: Bigby Wolf, natch
 

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Ultra said:
Are we talking traditional fables, or Bill Willingham's Fables?

Traditional: the scorpion

Fables: Bigby Wolf, natch

you made my day by knowing that book.

but either one is fine.
 

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Hmm, I like Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks. The three little pigs is a good one and Puss in Boots is pretty good.

Fee, fie, foe, fum,
I Smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he live or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
 

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Doesn't everyone know Willingham's work by now? If not, why not?

That's amazingly good stuff. I would think anyone interested in writing, in the act of telling a tale, would be keenly interested in what Willingham and his crew are up to.
 

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i was always partial to "the dog and the wolf", from aesop's fables.


A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. "Ah, Cousin," said the Dog. "I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?"


"I would have no objection," said the Wolf, "if I could only get a place."


"I will easily arrange that for you," said the Dog; "come with me to my master and you shall share my work."


So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about.


"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it."


"Is that all?" said the Wolf. "Then good-bye to you, Master Dog."


Better starve free than be a fat slave.
 

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the ant and the grasshopper - or a bugs life
 

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Either the Tawny Scrawny Lion, or the Scorpion and the Thing That Carried It Halfway Across The River.
 

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Shadow_Ferret said:
What's the difference between a fable and a fairy tale?

a fairy tale is simply a fanciful story, while a fable—by definition—is a story intended to convey a moral.

to be honest, i'm a little disappointed to see the apparent ignorance of the distinction on a writer's board.
 

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I'm rather fond of the Fox and the Crane.


Would that I could remember the one I memorized for French class! I liked that one, it involved a crow and a hunk of bread and a fox...
 

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William Haskins said:
a fairy tale is simply a fanciful story, while a fable—by definition—is a story intended to convey a moral.

to be honest, i'm a little disappointed to see the apparent ignorance of the distinction on a writer's board.

(hush now, Haskins. This is a place for new and experienced writers, and not all are as erudite as yourself...)

(I mean, come on, one of the ground rules here is "don't criticize grammar outside of the grammar forum." You gonna expect writers who aren't expected to know how to write to be able to identify the various forms of writing?)
 

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yeah, i just got a rep comment "why the attack?"...

it wasn't an attack; it was an observation.

the difference between fairy tale and fable isn't ivy league grad school stuff. i learned it in 4th grade.
 

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Don’t worry about it Shadow. You can ask questions, but you will get rude responses now and then. I didn’t know the difference either, nor did I care to know.
 

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Shadow_Ferret said:
Sheesh.

The reason I asked the question is because it seems a few of the answers seemed more like fairy tales and not the thread's topic of fable.

It's all Bravo's fault for asking what your favorite fable is, and then giving two fairy tales as his answer.
 
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dclary said:
It's all Bravo's fault for asking what your favorite fable is, and then giving two fairy tales as his answer.

And he didn't even ask "what's your favorite fable?"

He asked "who's your favorite fable?"

The boy must be drunk.

I'm glad someone is.
 
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