Background
Pagter, Carl Richard was born on February 13, 1934 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Ralph and Mina (Amelung) Pagter.
( Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving...)
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 testament to one of the world's most prolific authors-anonymous. The popularity of the items featured in this timely book is apparent by their reproduction in mass or popular cultural form-as greeting cards, plaques, and bumper stickers-reminding us of the inevitable interplay between folklore and mass culture. Dundes and Pagter clearly demonstrate the existence of folklore in the modern urban technological world and refute the notion that folklore reflects only the past.
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(Office copier folklore-those tattered sheets of cartoons,...)
Office copier folklore-those tattered sheets of cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, and crude jokes that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere-is the subject of this innovative study. this type of folklore represents a major form of tradition in modern America, and the authors have compiled this raw data for scholarship-and entertainment. These creations of the Paperwork Empire comment on topics and problems that concern all urban Americans. No one and nothing escapes their raunchy wit and sarcasm. Bosses, ethnic groups, minorities, the sexes, alternative lifestyles, politics, welfare, government workers, the law, bureaucracy, and even "The Night Before Christmas" all come under fire to form a biting, and hilarious, commentary on modern American society.
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(Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken...)
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 of government or the office where one works. The wonderfully expressive materials in this book-chain letters, memoranda, notices, and cartoons-touch upon every major controversy of urban America: racism, sex, politics, automation, alienation, welfare, the women's movement, military mentality, and office bureaucracy. The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them.
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(This is a collection of Xerox lore and humour circulating...)
This is a collection of Xerox lore and humour circulating widely in today's workplace. Have you seen anytime recently the "High School Math Test", or "Varying Interpretations of a Basic Philosophical Principle", or "Why God Never Received Tenure". Well, it's all here and much more. The book features humorous commentaries - cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, funny faxes, ethnic slurs, and crude jokes - on all of the issues and problems facing the modern world. No one and nothing escapes their raunchy wit and sarcasm. The creation and dissemination of the "photocopylore" in this volume have been greatly stimulated and facilitated by the advent of E-Mail and the FAX machine. Increased use of home computers, scanners, clip art, and CD-ROMs have provided individuals with the ability to generate graphic materials often beyond their normal technical capacity and skills. The collected materials in "Sometimes the Dragon Wins" emphatically prove that the rise of science and technology, rather than precipitating the demise of folklore in the modern world, has actually spawned a new generation of folklore - FAX, copier and computer humour.
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(Anyone who has ever been rebuffed by a form letter will a...)
Anyone who has ever been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore--chain letters, memoranda, notices and cartoons,--found in this collection.
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Pagter, Carl Richard was born on February 13, 1934 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Ralph and Mina (Amelung) Pagter.
Associate of Arts, Diablo Valley College, 1953; Bachelor, San Jose State University, 1955; Bachelor of Laws, University of California, Berkeley, 1964.
Law clerk, Kaiser Industries Corporation, Oakland, California, 1963-1964; counsel, Kaiser Industries Corporation, Oakland, California, 1964-1970; associate counsel, Kaiser Industries Corporation, Washington, 1970-1973; counsel, Kaiser Industries Corporation, Oakland, California, 1973-1975; director government affairs, Kaiser Industries Corporation, Washington, 1975-1976; vice president, secretary, general counsel, Kaiser Cement Corporation, Oakland, California, 1976-1988; consultant, general counsel, Kaiser Cement Corporation, San Ramon, 1988-1998; consultant, Kaiser Cement Corporation, San Ramon, since 1998.
(Office copier folklore-those tattered sheets of cartoons,...)
(Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken...)
(Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken...)
(Anyone who has ever been rebuffed by a form letter will a...)
( Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving...)
(This is a collection of Xerox lore and humour circulating...)
Trustee International Bluegrass Music Museum, Owensboro, Kentucky. Board member, treasurer Bluegrass Music Foundation, Nashville. Member California Bar, American Folklore Society, California Folklore Society, California Bluegrass Association (founder, chairman board emeritus), Mariners Square Athletic Club.
Married Judith Elaine Cox, May 6, 1978. 1 child by previous marriage: Corbin Christopher.