Profile of Disresponsible Nodpot of the Year 2006 - Mungo

Mungo started his own blog in February 2006.

This is what he wrote about himself:

Mungo
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Zodiac Year: Ox
About Me
I arrived in Ireland 17 years ago, after smuggling myself out of Africa in a bunch of bananas. My best friends are Marvin and Nobbles (who can't quite make up his mind whether he is a monkey or a cat) and of course, the beautiful Miss Monkey
The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?
I never wear shoes
Favorite Movies
Serenity
Favorite Music
jungle drums
Favorite Books
Lemony Snicket and Garth Nix's the castle series

Mungo's origins are shrouded in mystery. He claims to have arrived in Ireland 1989 (or perhaps late 1988). We can identify his presence on a special occasion on 14th May 1988, and know that he arrived in Blackrock at least Christmas 1987, if not a year earlier. Well known author Geri Valentine once documented his history, but alas this document has never been published. Our trusty researcher Bee Gears is endeavouring to obtain the original copy so that we can find out more about him.

Photo of Mungo posing for the first DNOTY voting form (2004)

The first few years of Mungo's life - prior to joining the Disresponsible Nodpots - were full of life and excitement. He frequently went where he was not invited (On Iseult's First Holy Communion, he snuck into her bag and went through the entire ceremony). He appointed himself Judge to the Toy Court. He starred in a film. And all the time, his best friends were Marvin and Nobbles - together, they were known as The 3 Amigos.

Nobbles, Marvin & Mungo in the inseparable days


It was only in 2001 that he grew interested in the Disresponsible Nodpots. Possibly suspecting that Marvin, as Chairtoy, was having fun without him, he tricked his way in to a meeting, uninvited, but contributed so much that he made his way to the minutes of the DNs, and, by default, became a member of the society without going through any of the usual application and initiation processes. (To this day, nobody is quite sure how he managed it - and Mungo is not giving away his secrets.)
Mungo visits his fans in Dublin!

Mungo's most famous words - the line quoted most regularly - is "Writing is easy!"

Doubtless he was getting tired of his fellow Nodpots vacillating ways - it is rumoured that they talked about writing but did little, and that the early meetings were all about giving each other presents.

To prove what he said was true, he promised to write a book and to win Disresponsible Nodpot of the Year in 2006.

He did both.

Mungo photographed with his wonderful book "Leaf: In Search of Ramune"

Early in 2006, Mungo wrote the exciting fantasy tale of Leaf, a little white monkey based loosely on himself (although no one can see the resemblance). We will be reviewing it later in this blog but it was received with critical acclaim, both within the DNs and without. He then sourced a POD service and produced beautiful hardback and paper back copies of his story. In fact, by that action, he instigated the Disresponsible Nodpot Publishing concern, which we have covered in another post. He is currently in the process of obtaining an agent - we wish him all the best in this venture.

Early in 2006 he invented the phenomenon of the mungo-bot. These are other toys programmed to adore and idolise Mungo, and to obey him in every respect. We believe he has to date at least one mungo-bot.

During 2006, he appointed two campaign managers to head his bid to win Nodpot of the Year - Mango and Tottie.
Pictured at the launch of the media campaign

As we all know, this campaign was very successful, with thousands of people promising their allegiance to Mungo (also affectionately known as Little White Paws or LPW). Unfortunately few of them had the vote, but the word got out that Mungo was to win.

Which he duly did.

Congratulations, Mungo - a very worthy winner of DNOTY 2006.

We look forward to seeing what Mungo accomplishes over the next 12 months.

Mungo claims his trophy December 31st 2006, under the Chairtoy's watchful eye

Watch out for an exclusive interview with the winner of DNOTY 2006 by our ace reporter Bee gears!