Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Carl R. Pagter, Alan Dundes

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Humor in Life and Letters

Carl R. Pagter, Alan Dundes

436 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire by Carl R. Pagter, Alan Dundes is a fascinating read for anyone who delights in the quirky, humorous, and often irreverent side of modern office culture, and will appreciate the clever insights into the ways in which folklore thrives in the unlikeliest of places - the workplace.

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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,...

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