Talk:Aesop

RFV discussion
RfV for the common-noun sense "The moral (usually at or near the end) of a piece of literature or film." — Really? — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 15:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)


 * TV Tropes uses this term, but it's quite possible that the term originated there and hasn't (yet) caught on. I'm not seeing anything durably archived for it. —Ruakh TALK 16:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Here's something, but in quotation marks, and with a meaning more like "a story containing a moral" rather than "a moral":
 * 2001, Keith Scott, The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, page 152–3:
 * General Mills wanted a new cartoon element, so an additional 13 "Aesops" were commissioned,
 * [...]
 * Jenkyns explained, "I'd written an 'Aesop' about a cat and a hen who fall in love; NBC had script approval, I guess, and someone there told us this was tantamount to doing a story about interracial marriage. Anyway, Jay told them they were being ridiculous and that my script was funny. It went to air."
 * The time period written about is ~1960. — Beobach 21:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)


 * No, in that book it actually means " Aesop and Son, or an episode thereof"; see [[w:The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]]. —Ruakh TALK 22:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I did actually first see the term on TV Tropes. It could be specific to that site. Aside: Does "the Aesop of [region]" merit a sense, or is that just a logical extension of the person Aesop? — lexicógrafa &#124; háblame — 22:12, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense/section removed. —Ruakh TALK 03:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)