There have been studies that prove the open plan office that has a joker in it produces more work and less days sick than those silent cube farms that segregate everyone from everything.

And after 8 months at home with the Teletubbies for company, I really appreciate our office joker - even if there is no-one else there who remembers the Goons shows or Monty Python the first time around...... Hell, one of them hasn't even heard of Blackadder - boy, has HE got an education to catch up on!!

LTS