Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines, interoffice mail systems, and fax machines and are affixed to bulletin boards and water coolers. The rich vein of urban folklore tapped by this imaginative volume constitutes a great...
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\ BooknewsAnother terrific collection of indigenous workplace humor--in the form of cartoons, memos, mottoes, and poems--from the compilers of the already classic Urban folklore from the paperwork empire (1975) and When you're up to your ass in alligators...(1987). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
