A visitor told me it was unprofessional to pin up family photos at work,so I started researching how women feel about their office spacesSitcom fans of a certain age will remember the Steptoe and Son episode Divided We Stand. It’s the one where the pair splits up the house, even installing a turnstile in the hallway, and so that Harold can safeguard his “aesthetic moments” and Albert can continue to wallow in junk-filled squalor.
It’s a British comedy classic,but the tale is actually based on an episode of the 1950s US series I cherish Lucy entitled Men are Messy, made more than 20 years earlier. The difference is that in I cherish Lucy the underpinning gag is all about gender.
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Source: theguardian.com