anecdote
genre or publication type, remarkable or characteristic story
anecdote joke
popular form of Russian (and not only) humor, short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line
Three laughs at Tiger Brook
Chinese proverb
The Astrologer who Fell into a Well
fable by Aesop and short tale reported by Aristotle regarding the life of Thales the Milesian
Diogenes and Alexander
Anecdote in Greek philosophical history
exemplum
moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point
East Germany jokes
jokes about East Germans
Parable of the Sunfish
anecdote with which Ezra Pound opens ABC of Reading
egg of Columbus
anecdote
Anecdote of the Thales' Oil Mills
short story narrated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, in Book I, section 11, of his work Politics about the wisdom of Thales the Milesian and his financial scheme
Hercules at the crossroads
ancient Greek anecdote parable attributed to Prodicus and known from Xenophon, concerning the young Heracles/Hercules who is offered a choice between Vice and Virtue
Eric and the Gazebo
anecdote in role-playing game culture
Sword of Damocles
proverbial phrase from antiquity linked to an anecdote