My new tagline briefly said “Autobiography of a fat bastard and his dysfunctional family“.

My Darling Wife*, Karen wanted to know why we were dysfunctional. Well, I pointed out, we aren’t like everyone else we know, i.e. we are happily married, child born in wedlock, married to first partners, no instant families, injunctions or ASBOs.

Anyway, it has now been revised to the rather Stoutist one above. She let the first bit stay…

*subject to contract

I’ve been reading Chip Dale’s Diary for a while now, led there by MyBloglog and Corporate Presenter, Jeremy Jacobs.

Chip is a larger than life character- this is his mini-bio:

About Chippy
24, swinger, jiggler, gyrator, gigolo, greasy hipster, babe magnet, blogger, Norse God, Bangor fan, codpiece collector, devout Christian, ex-leper, debt-collector, ab man, purveyor of posing pouches, cowboy, impresario, lead vocalist, meat grinder, leprechaun, Romanian refugee aid worker, load-bearing member.

When you look at his photos, he has the body of a weight lifter, the face of a bank manager and the ponytail of a Unix Guru. His tales are highly entertaining and I really have no idea if he is a persona or is for real.

Anyway, he has been categorising Myblogloggers here but when I remonstrated that I was probably a beautiful person in all but looks, style, image and fatbastardry he has suggested that the headphones have to go. Instead, I have dug out a holiday snapshot taken on a beach in acapulco on the deck of my 40′ cutter. Unfortunately, the photo is a little cropped so you can’t see Felicity Kendal and Joe Pasquale sunbathing alongside. Sorry about that…

(It is at the bottom of the sidebar, by the way. Technorati can still have the tiny presenter though).

Ok, so it isn’t Eepybird, but when we saw the fabled Mentos sweets in Spain we just had to try them out in some fizzy drink…

(Since then, I’ve seen Mentos in Bradford. Apparently you can do it with Polos as well!)