Punter knows women who have vetoed a date on account of the chap's bad shoes.
And they called it puppy love… Are your quivering fingers twitching for #Milifandom, anticipating the next Photoshopped images on Twitter of the chap formerly likened to Wallace from Wallace and Gromit?
My inner wuss reasserted itself just once: as we plunged down the scariest rapid of the trip, known as the Angel's Jump, I banged my face hard on the lifejacket of the chap in front - but that was because I had my eyes screwed tight shut.
Alas, he personifies us for the chap on the street even still, at a time when dwindling regular army numbers are being supplemented by an increase in reserve forces and TV ads are everywhere showing Territorial Army soldiers to be lean, mean fighting machines.
A list of words I've found used in connection to the Chap Olympiad on social media: spiffing, old chap, splendid, chumrades, jolly good, vintage dog, eccentric, tally ho, finery, foreigners, skulduggery, Blitz party, Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer.
If a chain saw should land on the chaps, their fibers will jam the chain and stop it.
He delivers his speeches vehemently, ambushing the conversations with his verbal pounces on the "chaps" around him.
On day one of the World Series main event, the chap on my left was a prickly, grumpy sort, who created a tense mood.
