Comments on: Tropes Are Treasures http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Hopefully Anonymous http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384539 Hopefully Anonymous Sun, 10 May 2009 07:20:30 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384539 data point towards the selection process for popular tropes: "The names of the Seven Dwarfs (Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy) were created for this production, chosen from a pool of about fifty potentials. The one name Disney always had in mind from the start was Grumpy, or something similar. Blabby, Jumpy, Shifty, and Snoopy were among those that were rejected, along with Awful, Baldy, Biggo-Ego, Biggy, Biggy-Wiggy, Burpy, Busy, Chesty, Cranky, Daffy, Dippy, Dirty, Dizzy, Doleful, Flabby, Gabby, Gloomy, Goopy, Graceful, Helpful, Hoppy, Hotsy, Hungrey, Jaunty, Lazy, Neurtsy, Nifty, Puffy, Sappy, Sneezy-Wheezy, Sniffy, Scrappy, Silly, Soulful, Strutty, Stuffy, Sleazy, Tearful, Thrifty, Tipsy, Titsy, Tubby, Weepy, Wistful, and Woeful" ^ a b Gabler, Neal (2007). "Walt Disney: The Biography". Sight and Sound 7 (17): 92. ISSN 0037-4806. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film) data point towards the selection process for popular tropes:

“The names of the Seven Dwarfs (Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy) were created for this production, chosen from a pool of about fifty potentials. The one name Disney always had in mind from the start was Grumpy, or something similar. Blabby, Jumpy, Shifty, and Snoopy were among those that were rejected, along with Awful, Baldy, Biggo-Ego, Biggy, Biggy-Wiggy, Burpy, Busy, Chesty, Cranky, Daffy, Dippy, Dirty, Dizzy, Doleful, Flabby, Gabby, Gloomy, Goopy, Graceful, Helpful, Hoppy, Hotsy, Hungrey, Jaunty, Lazy, Neurtsy, Nifty, Puffy, Sappy, Sneezy-Wheezy, Sniffy, Scrappy, Silly, Soulful, Strutty, Stuffy, Sleazy, Tearful, Thrifty, Tipsy, Titsy, Tubby, Weepy, Wistful, and Woeful”

^ a b Gabler, Neal (2007). “Walt Disney: The Biography”. Sight and Sound 7 (17): 92. ISSN 0037-4806.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

]]> By: Doug S. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384538 Doug S. Sat, 09 May 2009 21:21:03 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384538 I've been linking to TV Tropes like crazy here, and this is the first time you noticed? ;) I’ve been linking to TV Tropes like crazy here, and this is the first time you noticed? ;)

]]> By: david http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384537 david Sat, 09 May 2009 15:29:41 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2009/05/tropes-are-treasures.html#comment-384537 You visited TVtropes and got out alive? Congrats to you, good sir. You visited TVtropes and got out alive? Congrats to you, good sir.

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