On: Robin Hood And Friar Tuck

[unimpressive]

Stories like this pop up on HN over and over, (The same stories.) instead of waiting for reruns, is there some kind of place where they've all been collected? (Sort of like folklore.org)

EDIT: Besides the jargon file(s).

[jacquesm → unimpressive]

catb has some nice ones, for instance:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

[elemeno → unimpressive]

I've got a feeling that I first heard this story in the paperback version of the Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary (3rd Ed). That book alone is a pretty great compendium of stories from the 70s and 80s.

[bluesmoon → elemeno]

The paperback is just a printout of the online (living?) version that esr still maintains.

[gonzo → bluesmoon]

And... Doesn't release the source of which...