Carl R Pagter: 2 books
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
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,...
Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery...