UK readers may remember an email that went around before the last census, encouraging us to state our religion as "Jedi Knight". The theory was that if enough respondents gave that as their religion, it would have to be recognised as an official religion. Most of us wrote this off as a stupid prank, and I seem to remember an official government spokeman saying it was a load of rubbish.

However... it worked! Take a look at the bottom of page 18 of this census form. "Jedi Knight" is given as a valid option, along with Rastafarian, Mysticism, Santeri, Wicca, Satanism and Christadelphian. What's a "Cooneyite"? A lover of farces?