1.   Cavewear started out as nothing more than an office joke shared among three Houston stockbrokers who work together at the brokerage firm D.E. Wine Investments.

2.   He covered the walls with enlargements of mostly scatological office jokes that workers send each other over fax machines.

3.   The office joke is that a client meeting can last five minutes or five hours.

4.   The settlement took two years, during which the couple became the butt of office jokes.

5.   Word spread, of course, passed around like a politically incorrect office joke.