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Koontz a. 3 the Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks 4 the Eagle has flown by Jack Higgens 5 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Agel i. 6 Battleground by w e b. Griffin \ a a 7 witching hour by Anne Rice. V. A.8 magic hour by Susan Isaacsr 9 Sliver by Ira Levin. .10 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre. Non fiction 1 and the sea will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi a 2 the prize by Daniel Yergin a 3 financial self defense by Charles Givens 4 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric bums 5 Iron John by Robert Bly 6 life on the Road by Charles Kuralt 7 the next Century by David Halberstam 8 Millie s Book As dictated to Barbara Bush. 9 the new russians by Hedrick smith10 the spiritual life of children by Robert Coles All the office humor is fit ? to print Charles Stough Dayton Ohio daily news nation so a s. The Dollar plummets.  kills the air. Drought murders the geraniums and the Boss is breathing lire. Workplaces All Over gird for the coming strife everywhere photocopy and fax machines hum overtime. And into the Fra leaps the hero office humor. That a the Obsena Ati ii if Kevin Grace sen Ivr Library associate in the archives and rare Hooks department of the University of  Library. And curator of its office humor collection. Grace oversees hundreds of examples of faxed mimeographed typed and crudely drawn items that once filled bulletin boards of workplaces worldwide. I in has collected examples a for More than 12 years some of it from the 1950s, and says about 75 percent is obscene to some degree. Quot crises Start them a a Grace said. Quot it can be any sort of crisis a in the office the country the world. They pop up anywhere there Are Xerox machines faxes or bulletin  hospitals and the financial world seem to originate More than other businesses he said. These arc after All places where there is a lot at stake every Day. The sayings and loan crisis continues to inspire reams of it. Examples a an office sick leave policy discourages surgery warning a we hired you As you arc and to have anything removed would certainly make you less than we bargained  a a Burly Marine Points a Bayonet at a recumbent iraqi and demands to know a How much is the Oil now Quot a a hiring bulletin offers fat salaries to scud launcher Drivers promising Early retirement. A a cartoon depicts a crestfallen woman with smoking pistol saying a so Many doctors so few  someone has scratched a a doctors and substituted  a a sign reads Quot the Only difference Between this place and the titanic is they had a  besides off Leolor Grace said most office humor can be racist sexist or insulting to some ethnic group or class. It usually Breaks out in group situations like crowded offices hut is Seldom truly Public. Quot this is humor not to he seen a he said. Quot not to be seen by customers in a Bank patients in a Hospital like  it is also commonly plagiarized stolen from the last Anonymous Jokester updated and recast to fit a different situation time or bulletin Board. Such changes make the study of office humor More interesting he said. Quot the recent persian Gulf War inspired a lot about iraqis a he said Quot but most of it was take j offs of old polish jokes aggie jokes about Texas a amp a and its student cajun jokes and i so  Grace welcomes submissions for immortal nation in the Archive Blegen Library University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio 45221. But he holds out Little Hope that he wont have heard that one before. April 21, 1991 sunday a Page 9