The army interludes, later worked up as Ginger, You're Barmy (1962), ram home Lodge's New Man credentials by placing him sideways-on to "the establishment", a phrase coined at almost exactly the time he set off for basic training at Bovington Camp in Dorset.
His Burning Man credentials give him a leg up in the Web world: "It's a filter they apply".
And thanks to the success of the siege, Mr Olmert's hard-man credentials are now stronger too.
Further primping for Benedict Cumberbatch's leading-man credentials ahead of the film's US opening on Friday week.
As President Obama ran for office, whenever questions of his ordinary-man credentials arose, his aides were quick to say that he loves a good burger.
But the unlikely tale became one of the most iconic films of the decade, thanks in large part to Kenny Loggins, and Bacon cemented his leading-man credentials with charm and enviable moves.
His working-man credentials are real: born into a flat in Dublin in 1945 with no hot water or electricity, with only one room, his mum was a church-going housewife, his dad a frequently-unemployed builder's labourer.
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has shown off his action-man credentials to Russia's newest citizens by plunging deep beneath the surface of Crimea's Black Sea coast in a miniature submarine.
It's a sad day when the head of one of our leading academic institutions feels the need to build up his he-man credentials so people in high places won't try and make him pay for offering a microphone to simply the worst dictator who ever lived.
Reared in Castleknock, a semi-decent suburb of Dublin, he can't quite claim the same working-man credentials as McGregor who grew up in Crumlin and then Lucan, both a fair bit rougher but having come of age when class lines weren't so starkly drawn, he has all the manner of your mate who sits in a camping chair at Electric Picnic with a slab of Budweiser, hassling passersby for weed.
It is the story that Henry Louis Gates Jr. — a man whose credentials in this department, unlike mine, can never be challenged — attempts to encapsulate in this ambitious but frustrating book.
