"As a generous man," he writes in his goodbye email, "I have left some carrot and chocolate cake in the kitchen."
Well, so long King David. I will miss the epic table-football playing and it looks like we'll never hear your famous Dictators' Christmas Carol (he wrote two more verses featuring Saddam Hussein and, weirdly, OJ Simpson).
You know how some people are 'characters'? You get them everywhere - madcap figures of fun who just make everyone laugh, sometimes when they really didn't want to. They're more jesters than kings, I suppose, yet they command the court better than many a monarch. I really like those people - mostly because they can do a thing that I can't do.
But it's also because in a serious environment, where grey-faced suits mope through the day and the colour is being washed out of people while they stare at their inboxes, it's great to see someone burst into all of that with life, humour, friendship and a reminder of the things that matter.
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