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My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable

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Though Rees is better known for his Get Your War On comic, his wit and creativity are at their best in the Filing Technique series. Part of Rees' shtick is using public domain clipart instead of drawing the strips himself. And this tacky office clipart-you know, the blurry black and white pictures of office workers in plaid jackets talking on the phone-is a big part of the humor. There's something funny about dowdy office staff spewing obscenities.

You probably already know many of the characters in your own life-most of Rees' trash-talking clipart people are familiar enough to make part of you laugh in recognition and part of you consider hara-kiri. The clipart device also works well because Rees treats the pictures literally and builds absurd stories around them. Two women in front of a filing cabinet have intense and profane conversations about filing techniques; co-workers gathered around a workstation are business trainees who use the "spy computer" to learn about office politics; a shadowy man with a stack of dot-matrix printouts contemplates stealing the paperwork to start his own company.

So take a cubicle break and visit a world where management can drop a Triangle Body Mode at any time or can bring in Dr. Niles Fanderbiles to make sure your filing system is in the Realm of Excellence.

I loved David Rees' political satire, but this book is even funnier. If you like Office Space but thought the plot got in the way of the laughs, you'll love this. Anyone who has ever worked in an office (and doesn't mind profanity) can appreciate the humor.

The FUNNIEST book ever! if you've werked in an office, u will love this book! If you haven't worked in an office, i hate you and you will STILL love this book! - hey i sound like an ad!

I wish the offices I have worked in were this hilarious, and I could have used the Triangle Body Mode in many awkward situations.

In short, I laughed until I couldn't breathe and had to put the book down. An incredible, hilarious commentary on the depths of despair available 9:00-5:30 in your metropolitan area.

Very funny, curse-laden, nonsense comics that asks and answers questions such as:

Do the numbers in our files represent real objects, or are they just an abstraction?
Is alphabetically the only order letters come in?
How can I empower myself to excel the data?
and
Why are you performing eye surgery in my cubicle?

If you don't mind swearing for swearing's sake then you will probably get a kick out of this one. It's short and you won't find yourself re-reading it on winter nights, but it's a nice novelty item and worth the price tag.

If this is Gen Y humor, it helps explain why SNL is still on the air. "My New Filing System" takes the art technique invented by Tom Tomorrow, adds a pointless storyline, stirs in an average of two cuss words per panel, and lets fly. If you subscribe to the school that 10,000 bad jokes might produce 1 laugh, this might be for you. For those who like their humor to be a little more, um, funny, skip this and go watch the chimps throw s**t at the zoo.